“Bunker Hill: A Work in Progress” This video from the Getty Center’s fantastic Overdrive exhibit - which runs through July 21 - features amazing (and heartbreaking) footage of Bunker Hill through the years.
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The rain-slicked streets of Los Angeles: Broadway at night, as seen from a room in the Lankershim Hotel, 1940’s.
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A vista, vanished: The view from Court Hill in Los Angeles, looking south on Hill Street in 1951. The hill was later leveled to make way for Civic Center development.
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The rotating beacon atop Los Angeles City Hall, December 1951. The illuminated “TOY” promotes Toys for Tots. Old Bunker Hill is visible in the foreground.
(Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu)
Bel-Air, TEL. OX-1175: The newly built Sunset Boulevard gates of the exclusive subdivision in 1932.
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1930: Women in the crosswalk at 7th and Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.
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The lights are lit, the streets are empty: “Broadway at night on May 7, 1946, during a transit strike, with not a trolley in sight at 9:00 p.m., effectively killing downtown night life.” - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
The evolution of the original Angels Flight 3rd Street location over three decades, as documented by William Reagh beginning in 1955. The funicular was moved half a block south to make way for the “redevelopment” of Bunker Hill.
(Source: library.ca.gov)
Swells take their ease in a Pacific Electric Railway Parlor Car, Los Angeles, circa 1925.
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Looking east down Hollywood Boulevard towards Vine Street and the Broadway-Hollywood Hotel, night, 1940’s.
(Source: photos.lapl.org)
