Downtown Los Angeles, 1980

1980, Downtown Los Angeles.  Donald Lehr gets us started with a caption, "Looking down Flower St. B of A, Westin, California Club . . . ."

1930, The California Club. is located on the east side of Flower directly in front of the UCB Building.  

1958, Bunker Hill Redevelopment Plan.  

from the LA Times,

1959, The city of Los Angeles adopts the Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project. According to Curbed Los Angeles, “The redevelopment project adopted by the city on March 31, 1959, grew out of an urban revival movement sweeping the nation and kick-started by federal housing acts that offered aid for the clearing of ‘urban blight.’” Opponents slowed it down but couldn’t stop it. “Six-thousand residents, mostly poor people and senior citizens eligible for public housing, were relocated outside of the area; the promised replacement affordable housing never materialized.”

1973, The UCB, or United California Bank Building is set farther back behind the Security Pacific Bank on the east side of Flower.  

1974-1977, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel with the glassy silos at the middle right was built between 1974 and 1977.

1975, Security Pacific Bank, the tall building on the left, was built in 1975.  

The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in Postwar Los Angeles, 2017.   

Bunker Hill was a dense residential neighborhood on the western edge of downtown Los Angeles.  

Nathan Marsak has written a few books on Bunker Hill.  

1947, Bunker Hill.

1940, Bunker Hill colorized.