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Looking west on Fourth Street from Spring Street, 1958-2014
1958-2014 Few sections of Downtown Los Angeles’ Historic Core have been as cruelly ravaged by urban decay as the blocks of Fourth Street in this view. Save for the former Broadway department store, whose corner peeks out at the left … Continue reading
Looking east on Sixth Street from Figueroa Street, 1968-2014
1968-2014 Up through the 1960s, the southern end of Downtown Los Angeles’ modern Financial District maintained a diverse building stock whose functions and styles reflected several periods of the city’s growth. Although the Sixth Street vicinity had seen the construction … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged hotels, modernism, street widening, vintage color
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The Hill Street Tunnels, looking north on Hill Street from First Street, 1954-2014
1954-2014 Like many of the city’s early public works projects, the Hill Street Tunnels provided a solution to one of Los Angeles’ greatest topographic obstacles to regional mobility, the hills at Downtown’s northwestern edge. While of most of them had … Continue reading
Posted in Bunker Hill, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged civic buildings, street widening, streetcars, transit, vintage color
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Southwest corner of First Street and Broadway, 1956-2014
1956-2014 In continuation of the previous post, the top photograph shows the southwest corner of First Street and Broadway in December, 1956. By then, most of the present block at the foot of Bunker Hill had been demolished in preparation … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Bunker Hill, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged civic buildings, urban renewal, vintage color
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Looking south on Broadway from First Street, 1956-2014
1956-2014 The top photograph, taken in 1956 by Palmer Conner, shows one of Broadway’s oldest sections in its final days. Save for one surface parking lot, the west side of the block between First and Second Streets then housed eight … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged civic buildings, urban renewal, vintage color
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Richfield Oil Company Building and Atlantic Richfield Plaza, northwest corner of Sixth and Flower Streets, 1968-2014
1968-2014 When it comes to 20th century corporate architecture, arguably no street corner in Los Angeles has seen as many exemplary buildings as the intersection Sixth and Flower Streets. This then and now comparison features two of them, the Richfield … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged modernism, street widening, vintage color
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Looking east on Second Street from Olive Street, 1957-2013
1957-2013 The top photograph shows the border between Bunker Hill and the Civic Center in 1957, just as both neighborhoods were being profoundly reshaped by urban renewal and redevelopment. While the full destruction of Bunker Hill was several years away, … Continue reading
Posted in Bunker Hill, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged urban renewal, vintage color
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Southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rampart Boulevard, 1957-2013
1957-2013 The top photograph, a Kodachrome slide by Palmer Conner, shows the Hershey Arms Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard shortly before its demolition. Built between 1906 and 1907, the Hershey Arms was the first hotel to open along the nascent boulevard, … Continue reading
Posted in Koreatown/Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, Then and now, Westlake, Wilshire Boulevard
Tagged hotels, modernism, vintage color
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Southeast corner of Seventh and Flower Streets, 1957-2013
1957-2013 Leading up to its redevelopment as a modern financial district, the western periphery of Downtown Los Angeles consisted primarily of aging low-rise blocks. The top photograph, taken by Palmer Conner, shows the 700 block of Flower Street lined with … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged department stores, modernism, vintage color
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West side of Main Street south of Second Street, 1952-2013
1952-2013 Like many other of Charles Cushman’s Los Angeles photographs, the top view shows a beleaguered block of Main Street on the verge of its demise. Completed in 1894, the white building at 227 South Main Street was the longtime … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Los Angeles, Then and now
Tagged parking, religious buildings, vintage color
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