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Title
Hill Street Tunnel at Temple
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1945
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Looking south at the streetcar side of the Hill Street Tunnel which was bored through a part of Bunker Hill in 1909 by Los Angeles Pacific (a predecessor of Pacific Electric). It connects Hill Street from First to Temple. A "Private Way for Trains" sign is above the tunnel. On the right is a staircase. The parking lots, top and bottom, are full. Apartment houses are on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068200
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Streets-Hill
CARL0000071577
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/106856
Subject
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles)
Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Temple Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hill Street Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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