These photographers were well known and well-respected for their craft. Most of the Hill was removed in the 1930s with the remainder leveled out in 1949 for the Hollywood Freeway. No one knows for sure her motivation, but what is certain is that she captured Los Angeles at a time of great growth and change. (Stewart worked for Fletcher Bowron, Mayor of Los Angeles from 1938 to 1953.) (Clicking on the photo enables you to see a Los Angeles Gas Company gas holder and La Plaza Church on the right side of the photo. Ultimately, grandma took Alma to live in Europe until she was old enough to decide which parent she preferred to live with. Required fields are marked *. More than 130 firefighters were called in to battle a two-building blaze early Tuesday in the Fashion District of downtown Los Angeles. In 2002, it was renamed the Stanley Mosk Courthouse after former California Attorney General and California Supreme Court Justice Morey Stanley Mosk. NOTE: It is possible that the Methodist Headquarters, later renamed Biscailuz Building, was the site of Ms. Harris’s employer, though this is not known for certain. It comprises South and North towers, which are joined by a three-story glass atrium. In 1891, the Crocker Mansion became a boarding house/hotel, though far ritzier than the faded Bunker Hill boarding rooms of the 1940s/50s. Ms. Harris wrote an article about the history of Fort Moore Hill for the Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (Volume 32, No. “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir” By Nathan Marsak, Pershing Square’s Spanish-American War Memorial (part 1), Lady McDonald Residence – 321 South Bunker Hill Avenue, Hershey Residence/Castle Towers – 350 South Grand/750 West Fourth, The Salt Box – 339 South Bunker Hill Avenue, CRA Relocation Offices – 232 South Grand Avenue, Looking Backward: Depopulating Pershing Square, 2012-1954. NOTE: All photos in this blog post are from the L. Mildred Harris Slide Collection of the Los Angeles Photographers Collection and were taken by L. Mildred Harris. The club is located in the Spring Arts Tower, formerly known as the Crocker Citizens National Bank building. She may, possibly, simply have had the habit of taking a stroll with camera in hand. Many Victorian mansions on Bunker Hill were turned into hotels after their owners left them. Analogous to the Edison, the Crocker will serve a similar downtown crowd hungry for new drinking options in 2009. Angels Flight, a funicular railway, opened in 1901 and ran for two uphill blocks, from the west corner of Hill Street at Third to its Olive Street terminus. (Could it be that everyone was somewhere celebrating?). Wells Fargo Tower (Tower I), at 220 m (720 ft) it is the tallest building of the complex. Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight! If this new multinational downtown ... effectively abolished the older ruined city fabric which it violently replaced, cannot something similar be said about the way in which this strange new surface in its own peremptory way renders our older systems of perception of the city somehow archaic and aimless, without offering another in their place?[12]. Perched high at the corner of Third and Olive, the imposing 3-story Victorian structure overlooked the emerging metropolis for a mere 22 years. Her photos wound up with her employer, a minister, whose daughter brought them to the Los Angeles Public Library and noted, “She [Harris] was my dad’s secretary and we have these photos. The buildings on either side of the station were boardinghouses which would be demolished by the late 1960s during the redevelopment (and commercial construction) of Bunker Hill. Standing at the construction site for the Santa Ana Freeway (which commenced construction in 1947, was finished in 1956, and encompassed Interstate 5/US 101), Ms. Harris could look northeast and see (from left to right), Los Angeles Transit Lines street cars and the United States Post Office Terminal Annex. Though its reign over Bunker Hill was short, the Crocker Mansion remains an indelible part of early Los Angeles history. (Its official address was 215 West 1st Street.) ), Ms. Harris captures the crossover spot for the Hollywood, Santa Ana, Harbor, and Pasadena freeways (near the Los Angeles Civic Center) on St. Patrick’s Day. is ocularly quite undecidable. In 1887, the mansion became the center of a scandal when Alma Ashe, Margaret Crocker’s granddaughter, was kidnapped from the residence. Margaret Crocker died in 1901 and possession of the mansion was assumed by her children, except for hell-cat Aimee who had been left out of the will. Designed by architect John Hall and erected in 1886, the ornate residence was built by Mrs. Margaret E. Crocker at a cost of $45,000 (a little over a million in today’s dollars). Crocker merged with Wells Fargo in 1986. Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper complex in Downtown Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, in Los Angeles, California. Here Ms. Harris captures the demolition of the Hall of Records in September of 1973. 611 West 6th Street is a 42-story skyscraper in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. View a detailed profile of the structure 116593 including further data and descriptions in the Emporis database. The Crocker Mansion subsequently closed its doors as a boarding house and plans were soon drawn up to renovate the residence for use as social quarters for the Elk’s, who were putting up a new building on the eastern portion of the property. Standing on the site of Fort Moore Hill during its excavation, one could look east and see the Post Office Terminal Annex (left), which was the main post office in Los Angeles. Rumored to have married Miss Crocker for the family riches, Amy soon grew weary of her groom, who spent plenty of time and money at the racetrack. A branch of the Wells Fargo History Museum is located at the center.[10]. The fort was decommissioned in 1853 and the hill became the site of a cemetery, then a saloon, and later one of the toniest neighborhoods in the area – Bunker Hill. The Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration was named after “Kenny” Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years.