LAPD's Traffic Division moves into its new home at 123 South Figueroa, 1942:
And a shot of it undergoing renovation with the 1st Street bridge of Figueroa being erected on March 7th, 1940:
Originally built in 1925 as an office building on the edge of Bunker Hill, according to
On Bunker Hill:
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in 1934 is turned into “one of the largest and most modern” government relief centers in the West. The Federal Transient Service converted the building into its Southern California headquarters, i.e., a shelter for non-resident jobless men, outfitting it with an enormous cafeteria and dormitories that slept 500. It became a veritable city in itself: showers, lockers, hospital, educational and recreational facilities were installed, as were a laundry, shoe repair and tailor shop. It was also a warehouse for materials and supplies used in the camps. Yes, the camps. Itinerant men had forty-eight hours to stay at Figueroa, max, before being assigned out of the city to transient work camps in forest and mountain areas.
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Here's a shot of it from the mid-'60s:
On Bunker Hill
And as for its fate:
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In March of 1964, the Board of Supervisors authorized sale of the county building to the CRA. The CRA said they intended to develop the site into a motel. The garage equipment goes up for auction in April 1971 and the 123 is presumably demolished failry soon thereafterward.
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