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Originally Posted by Tetsu
I've been meaning to post this article for a while now - I'm taking your post as a sign to stop being lazy about it.
Article is dated Feb. 4, 1962.
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Thank you, Tetsu for a really well done post. The article, of course, only partially answers my question but absent a really comprehensive study, these anecdotal stories will have to do. With upwards of ten thousand people being displaced, you'd think some enterprising urban planner would have taken advantage of the opportunity. In any event, nice post. Thanks again.
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Originally Posted by Albany NY
Wow, Michael, you're a man after my own heart! (Did that sound creepy, at all?)...((not particularly. Well maybe a little.)) Every single one of them had their own hopes and dreams and demons stalking their every waking hour....just like the rest of us.
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Well, we're really on the same page with this...it's always been about the people to me. Even when we are looking at the sometimes magnificent buildings, sometimes modest buildings we all miss, the Richfield, the Sunkist, the Poundcake Hill High School building, I'm always thinking about how those buildings affected the people who saw them contemporaneously, as parts of their normal environment. How the designs lifted their spirits, served them, oriented them...
Anyway, here's the image that started my most recent thinking on this...
Extension of 4th Street through Bunker Hill, 1956
The coming of the 4th Street cut. Looking west over 4th Street where half a mile extension will carry it from Hill Street under Grand Avenue (middle distance) and Hope Street (Hildreth house is gone, only shrubs appear to remain) and over Flower and Figueroa (which cannot be seen) to the Harbor Freeway, part of which can be seen in the background. Camera appears to be situated on the south east corner of Olive and 4th Streets probably on the upper floors or roof of the Subway Building. Lovely curved staircase at center/bottom is from the now demolished Fremont Hotel. The $1,256,085 project is scheduled to be finished Jan. 1st, 1956. 135,400 cubic yards of dirt are in the process of being moved and work can be seen from the Harbor Freeway.