Amazing pictures, gsjansen. Interesting to see that during that period, the area around the Civic Center was all parking lots; the area east of the Harbor Freeway, too. I'm particularly fascinated by this picture:
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You can see what is now the AT&T telephone exchange building without its microwave tower (as well as being a number of stories shorter), as well as the contour of Bunker Hill, and the blocks that would eventually be the sites of the Union Bank building and Bonaventure Hotel. I see that the Biltmore Theatre still existed in 1961, at least the building still did; don't know if it was being used as a theater at that point in time anymore.