"What the Acropolis was to Ancient Greece during her Golden Age, the new Civic Center now being hewn from the shabby slopes of Bunker Hill will be to Los Angeles," The Times wrote in 1957.

J.W. Eddy, who constructed it to convenience Downtown Los Angeles residents. Nowadays, Bunker Hill features rows of commercial buildings, but in the early 1900s, many of the city's upper class ...

Background process plate produced for an unidentified feature film, shot from an automobile driving through Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles.