Los Angeles City Hall and the Civic Center District as seen from Bunker Hill, 1940s

Los Angeles City Hall and the Civic Center District as seen from Bunker Hill, 1940s.jpg

Angelenos nowadays are used to a largely flattened downtown but twas not always thus. As we can see from this 1940s shot, the huge outcropping of rock known as Bunker Hill rose sharply and steeply at the top end of downtown. The view from the Victorian mansions that used to fill BunkerHill must have been amazing on those clear, pre-smog days.

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