Speaking of Court Hill and the intersections of Hill and First, does anyone know why the promontory bounded by Hill, First, Olive and Court Streets was cleared and turned into a parking lot?
We know the Bradbury mansion fell in 1929, but everything else seems to have come down gradually over the course of the 1930s. Was this just market economics at work, or did the government perhaps condemn this block due to unstable grounds?
Also, does anyone have pictures of this parking lot from the ground? I've found a few that show slivers of it, but none that shows the whole thing:
1950s, Cal State Lib
1952, Cal State Lib
1952, Cal State Lib
1940s, unsure of source