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Angels Flight
Angels Flight—everybody’s favorite FUNicular—is there a more iconic piece of Bunker Hilliana? All aboard!proclaims the city of LA! But don’t get too excited. It’s not open, so you’re not riding it...
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The Crocker Mansion - 300 South Olive
At the turn of the 20th Century, no building dominated Bunker Hill like the Crocker Mansion. Perched high at the corner of Third and Olive, the imposing 3-story Victorian structure overlooked the...
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The Elks and Their Annex
Of all the oft-pictured sites of Los Angeles, Angels Flight is certainly up there amongst them, as who doesn’t go for those Oldey-Timey images? There’s probably postcards and ceramic trivets and...
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Suicide Writ Large at Clay Central
Before the Community Redevelopment Association swung its scythe across Bunker Hill, one building tried to do itself in. This structure was by all evidence a living, cursed thing, and like the House of...
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Odd Incarnations: The Bunker Hill of Towne’s Ask the Dust
Bunker Hill of old is gone, never to be again. Until we concoct some Disneyesque Colonial Williamsburgian simulacrum, complete with sullen teenagers hired to pose as grimy grifters, we’ll never be able...
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The Kellogg/Palace/Casa Alta—317 South Olive
May 22, 1930William J. Stone, 38, was a Bostonian broker who'd moved to Los Angeles and into the Casa Alta Hotel and Apartments, 317 South Olive. In what may have partly been a case of Don’t Argue with...
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Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight!
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...
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