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Life and Death Of and In the Astoria

The Astoria Apartments…the advantages of the city’s tourist hotels with the quiet of the residence section. Plus, at no extra charge to you, grewsome murder.read more

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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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Lewis the Light, accident preventer

Location: 230 South Olive Street Louis Burgess Greenslade, a native of Devon, England and better known as Lewis, The Light, was already balmy in January 1889, when Doctors Field and Fitch of Bellevue...

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The Argyle: A Slow, Steady Decline, Part 1

Situated at the corner of Olive and Second, the Argyle House was built in the 1880s by a Scottish gentleman, and quickly became as respectable a salon (and saloon) as could be found on Bunker Hill....

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The Door Busters of Olive Street

Location: 230 South Olive StreetBounced from Della Davis' rooming house for excessive drinking, William Thomas Brown (plasterer, 36) vowed to "get" her. On January 16, 1917 around noon, he broke down...

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The Argyle: Wayward Youth, Beatings and the Slit Throat That Wasn't

When we last visited the Argyle, it was the a first rate Bunker Hill rooming house, artists' salon, and night spot besieged by troubled management and unpredictable closings.  This week, we turn to...

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Residence - 221 South Olive Street

  The house that stood at 221 South Olive may not have been as ornate as some of its Bunker Hill neighbors, but unlike the homes of Margaret Crocker and L.J. Rose, the residence on Olive survived from...

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Lucinda Andrews meets the Long Beach Car

Location: 240 South Olive Street Date: December 2, 1903read more

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Baby Needs A New Pair of Pants

Location: 230 South Olive Avenue Date: September 3, 1913Even hardened cops grew misty as they heard the woes of poor Mabel Tracy, the downtown waitress whose every coin earned went into the kitty meant...

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A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s

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