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Times Past: Selling downtown L.A.

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Snapshots from the Los Angeles Times archives: West magazine, June 8, 1969

Of course this couple is deliriously happy: In 1969, rents at Bunker Hill Towers started at $215 for a one-bedroom. (Now they start at more than $1,250.) The headline at the top of the ad read: ‘They’ve only been married two years. And she never dreamed it would be like this.’

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Um, perhaps that’s because it wasn’t like this. More than three decades would have to pass before the arrival of strolling couples celebrating a truly revitalized downtown. Even now, wise residents keep only one eye on the view and the other on the ground –- the better to dodge what downtown’s new dog population has left behind.

-- Joan Fantazia

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