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Title
Third Street steps, Bunker Hill
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Mann, George
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; The original photographic print is a reproduction.
Actor George Mann (1905-1977) grew up in Silver Lake and moved to Santa Monica as a teenager with his parents. Starting out as a vaudevillian in the mid-1920s, Mann performed with various groups, with the USO during WWII, and held small parts in several movies. Mann took approximately 12,000 B&W photographs during his years in vaudeville, and in the early 1950s, he designed a 3-D viewer for his 3-D photographs, mostly taken around Southern California. He made arrangements to lease the viewers to various Los Angeles businesses, including restaurants, bars and doctor's offices. Every couple of weeks, George would swap out the photos of such tourist destinations as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, Pacific Ocean Park, Watts Towers, Catalina Island, and Palm Springs. In the early 1970s, George was hired by Quaker Oats to portray King Vitaman in both commercials and on the front of the cereal box. This series represents the images Mann took of Bunker Hill homes in the 1960s.; The Kennedy-Adenauer talks took place in late November, 1961.; The Bunker Hill apartments and boardinghouses in the upper left have been demolished.
Looking down the Third Street steps towards the Sunshine Apartments at 421 W. Third Street (left). The headline for the Los Angeles Times issue on the steps (lower right) reads, "Kennedy Begins Talks with Adenauer Today."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :color ;28 x 22 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00102810
George Mann Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b046_f5_i20
CARL0005127073
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/125435
Subject
Sunshine Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Apartments--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Boardinghouses--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
American newspapers
Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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