This painting is the first 29"x41" watercolor I ever painted. It is a view of Bunker Hill which was the L.A's equivalent of Knob Hill in San Francisco. The wealthy citizens built up here because Los Angeles was built in the the Los Angeles River wash, and during the rainy season which usually arrives in full force after January the city would often be flooded. Bunker Hill was considered so formidable a geological barrier that it was thought that L.A. would never grow beyond it. The only way up the hill to build was at Fourth and Hill Sts. a block south of this view. We are looking down on the corner of Third and Hill Sts. four years before Angel's flight was opened. The view is about from the top of the old Presbytarian Church across from the old City Hall.