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The Way We Blog NowSubmitted by kim on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 15:17.Gentle reader, the new manifestation of the 1947project time travel blog has emerged. You'll find us exploring the great lost downtown of Broadway, Main and Spring Streets, In SRO Land, lost lore of the historic core. »
About On Bunker HillSubmitted by kim on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 01:44.Bunker Hill is a ghost, and though you may today walk streets named Grand and Hope and imagine that you stand where once were grand Victorian homes turned flophouses, you are in fact one hundred feet beneath the old roads, which the city shaved away to make a wider footprint for the high rise tenants that replaced them. A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940sSubmitted by kim on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 15:41.Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight!Submitted by nathan on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 07:14.Hillzapoppin' in the OBH! A couple swanky new color images emerged from the greater Mann grotto and the good people at the archives wanted to share them with you. Ain't they the best?
This image is later than the other Manns (Menn?) we've seen. (Given the specific progress made on the Union Bank tower, I'd peg this photo at September 1966). By comparison, here's one of late-50s vintage you've seen before:
The Community Redevelopment Agency got their wreckers and worked from top to bottom; started with the Elks in the autum of 1962, then hit the Hulburt (middle) and finished the Ferguson on Hill in '63. With Angels Flight's Western Wall removed, you then see these two characters in images of the Flight, but they were chewed up pretty quickly. All the More MannSubmitted by nathan on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 03:51.Ahoy Hill hipster! It’s been an exciting time here On Bunker Hill. Through the grace of George Mann’s family, the other day Kim posted twenty-one images of BH in living doomed color. One of those featured the Sunshine Apts. with the Hill Crest looming o’er; a few days later the esteemed Jim Dawson posted all about the Sunshine, including a new Mann image that showcased a year’s worth of growth where the Hill Crest once stood. And now, for your edification and delectation, more.
Meet George MannSubmitted by kim on Sun, 05/30/2010 - 16:21.George Mann's Bunker Hill photographs are now available, exclusively from this site. InSROLand, an LA Time Travel Blog, wants youSubmitted by kim on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 00:01.Greetings, history geek: Are you fascinated by the forgotten social history of Los Angeles, from low life to high society? Do old buildings make you swoon? Are you a good writer and a careful researcher, able to cite sources and bring old tales to life? Do you have or wish to develop a specialized knowledge of some neglected aspect of Los Angeles lore (for example: Vaudeville performers, streetcar routes, obsolete restaurants, political scandals)? Is time travel your dream date? If the answer to most of these questions is yes, then you are a good candidate to be part of an ambitious new blog called In SRO Land, and we would like to hear from you. Read on for more information, and instructions on how you can apply to join the blog team. »
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