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Title
Bunker Hill
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1975
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Designed by Charles Bentley as a low-cost and portable parking solution, the 1,062-space structure opened in 1969. It stood until 2018 when it was demolished to make room for The Grand, a mixed-use development designed by Frank Gehry.
Looking south from the roof of the County Courthouse at Olive and 1st streets, December 1975. Prominently visible, from left to right, a large parking lot, a Civic Center parking structure (later demolished), Broadway Media Center, a residential motel (now the Kawada Hotel), Title Guarantee Building, City National Bank, One Wilshire, the Madison Complex, the Crocker Bank Tower, One Bunker Hill, Broadway Plaza, the Aon Center, Central Library, the California Club, and the Bunker Hill portable parking structure.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00161233
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_123_f1_s22
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/139488
Subject
Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aon Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Title Guarantee Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
One Wilshire (Los Angeles, Calif.)
City National Bank Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Art deco (Architecture)
Broadway Media Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Public Library
Central Library (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Trees
California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Crocker Bank Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.)
One Bunker Hill Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Dwellings
Apartments
Apartment hotels
Lost architecture
Bank buildings
Broadway Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sidewalks
Pedestrians
Office buildings
Automobiles
Commercial buildings
Skyscrapers
Parking lots
Parking facilities
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Central business districts
Streets
Street lighting
Vacant lands
Luckman, Charles,--1909-1999
Woodford & Bernard, Architects
Albert C. Martin and Associates
William L. Pereira and Associates
Allison & Allison
Grand Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hope Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olive Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
First Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Second Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Panoramic views
Time Period
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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