It’s amazing to think that downtown Los Angeles ever looked as genteel and regal as this. That huge home on top of Bunker Hill at 300 S. Olive was called the Crocker mansion. It was named after Aimee Crocker, the much-married railroad heiress who filled her life with many wild adventures across the globe and who was dubbed “The Queen of Bohemia.” This circa 1890 photo also reminds us how high Bunker Hill was before the top got shaved off in the 1950s. I pity the poor horses who had to pull carriages up that hill.
Crocker Mansion at 300 S. Olive St, as seen from the corner of Third and Hill Streets, Bunker Hill, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1890
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For those who can’t but continually look back over their own shoulder, this links to the 1894 reversed view from the Crocker property seeing eastward on Third which you previously posted: https://martinturnbull.com/2020/12/07/looking-east-along-3rd-street-from-the-crocker-mansion-downtown-los-angeles-1894/