Main Street at the 101 Freeway. Grand Central Hotel being wrecked

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  Main Street at 101 freeway. Grand Central Hotel being wrecked

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  Grand Central Hotel and neighboring structures being demolished. Signs for the Arizona Café, Federal Loan and Jewelry Co., a notary public, and photo studio are visible on the adjacent buildings. Union Station is barely visible in the background at left.

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  Main Street at 101 Freeway. Old buildings being wrecked

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  South view across the 101 Freeway towards remnants of the Baker Block. The U.S. Courthouse and Los Angeles City Hall are visible in the background. Political and theatrical posters are affixed to the side of a building.

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  Rear view of Grand Central Hotel being demolished. Main Street at 101 Freeway

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  This collection consists of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken between 1954 and 1972. This collection of photographs taken by amateur photographer Palmer Conner documents by street the physical and social changes of Bunker Hill during the earliest stages of redevelopment. The collection is particularly strong in its depiction of the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles during redevelopment in the 1950s. Images chiefly consist of views of commercial and residential building exteriors taken from the street, including images of both new construction and older buildings in the process of being demolished.

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  Wrecking old-timers at the freeway

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  Grand Central Hotel and neighboring structures on Main Street being demolished. Signs for the Arizona Café, Federal Loan and Jewelry Company, a notary public, and photo studio are visible on the adjacent buildings.

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  North Main Street near Macy Street

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  700-704 North Main Street building slated for demolition. Union Hotel, 704 North Main Street, once occupied the upper floors of the building.

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  Grosse Building being wrecked at 6th Street and Spring Street

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  Grosse Building (formerly the Abbot Kinney) undergoing demolition. Sunlight is illuminating the west side of the building.

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