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Initially a residential suburb, Bunker Hill retained its exclusive character through the end of World War I.Around the 1920s and the 1930s, with the advent of the Pacific Electric Railway and the construction of the freeway, and the increased urban growth fed by an extensive streetcar system, its wealthy residents began leaving for enclaves such as Beverly Hills and Pasadena.
629–633 S. Hill St. Downtown Los Angeles: Art Deco style, 1930. [8] 1001: May Company Garage June 1, 2011: 9th and Hill Streets Downtown Los Angeles: Beaux-Arts style nine-story parking garage and retail building built in 1927. Designed by Claude Beelman and William Curlett, 1019: Metropolitan Building: April 27, 2011: 315 W. 5th Street Downtown
The 2nd Street Tunnel is a widely filmed and photographed tunnel on 2nd Street under Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California.The Los Angeles Times described it as "the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of". [1]
At upper right is Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill. The late-Victorian-era Downtown of Los Angeles in 1880 was centered at the southern end of the Los Angeles Plaza area, and over the next two decades, it extended south and west along Main Street, Spring Street, and Broadway towards Third Street. Most of the 19th-century buildings no ...
Angels Flight is a landmark and historic 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It has two funicular cars, named Olivet and Sinai, that run in opposite directions on a shared cable. The tracks cover a distance of 298 feet (91 m) over a vertical gain of 96 feet (29 m). [4]
Upscale shopping had moved west to the Seventh & Hope area starting in the 1920s, and to Mid-Wilshire by the 1930s. When consumers lived and worked near the prolific streetcar lines, it was relatively easy for them to reach downtown, the hub of both the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric systems. Now, an ever increasing number of ...
An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles (Revised and updated ed.). Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 1-58685-308-2. MacCann, Richard Dyer (January 1, 1996). Films of the 1920s. Scarecrow Press Inc. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-0-8108-3256-5. Sitton, Tom; Deverell, William Francis (2001). Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s. University ...
The Fremont Hotel was a hotel in the Bunker Hill suburb of Downtown Los Angeles, California. Situated at 401 South Olive Street on the southwest corner of Fourth and Olive streets, the hotel opened in September 1902 on California Admission Day and closed in the 1940s. The hotel was demolished in 1955.