Location notes: 2:01: Driving west on 2nd street Turns south onto Grand. Turns west on 5th street. Turns north on Flower Footage continues at 4:13 heading north on Flower Turns east on 2nd. An cool look at historic downtown LA jbermudes 2011-09-07 21:51:09 2011-09-07 21:51:09 0 http://blogdowntown.com/2011/09/6380-a-drive-around-late-1940s-bunker-hill Some interesting annotations here Rick Prelinger 2011-09-07 21:53:12 2011-09-07 21:53:12 0 Truly astonishing stuff. Thank you, Internet Archive, for finding, transferring and sharing this gem from lost Bunker Hill. It's even more satisfying to see it after the disappointment of discovering that the game producers of the much-hyped "L.A. Noire" chose not to even bother rendering the lost neighborhood. Over at the Off Bunker Hill mailing list, LA historians and former Bunker Hill residents have been identifying structures and dating vehicles. One person even thinks they've spotted their father leaning on a lampost! Off Bunker Hill list http://groups.google.com/group/offbunkerhill On Bunker Hill time travel blog http://onbunkerhill.org/ Some of us have been dreaming footage like this exists scram 2011-09-08 04:43:31 2011-09-08 04:43:31 5 My Grandfather, John Colby owned The Palace Garage & Machine Shop. 318 South Grand Avenue. The Garage appears twice in the video on the right hand side after Cut Rate Drugs and the Cleaners. 318 South Grand slangton 2011-09-08 06:17:57 2011-09-08 06:17:57 4 The footage not only provides a wonderful glimpse of post-WWII Bunker Hill, now lost to civic redevelopment, but illuminates Los Angeles during the silent film era as well. As I explain in my book Silent Visions, Harold Lloyd filmed scenes for seven different movies at the intersection of 3rd and Grand, on Bunker Hill, more scenes than at any other location in Los Angeles. It was a popular place for Laurel and Hardy, and other Hal Roach Studio stars to film as well. The Prelinger film drives twice by Lloyd’s intersection of 3rd and Grand, providing razor sharp images of where Lloyd and other silent stars filmed. You can see several scenes from Hal Roach silent comedies, and how they compare to the Prelinger film, here at my blog. http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/stan-ollie-and-harold-a-drive-through-bunker-hill/ Here is a map of the route driven during the film. http://flic.kr/p/akLQPz Stan, Ollie, and Harold Lloyd filmed here too silentechoes57 2011-09-13 01:20:37 2011-09-09 06:17:04 5 These are the 40s/early 50s films listed on IMDb as having scenes shot in the location Bunker Hill, Downtown Los Angeles: Somewhere in the Night (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Act of Violence (1948) Hollow Triumph (1948) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) Criss Cross (1949) Cry Danger (1951) M (1951) Cry of the Hunted (1953) Kisds Me Deadly (1955) Possible candidates for the film? Treadway 2011-09-13 13:28:24 2011-09-13 13:28:24 5 I just wanted to point out the Richfield Building at 5th & Flower, which appears on the right (with the aerial) after 4:12. I remember this building before it was torn down in the late '60s...what a loss! I miss the Richfield Building jsmog 2011-10-24 17:56:41 2011-10-24 17:56:41 4 7 4.60