Bradbury Building 304 S. Broadway, Downtown The 1893 Bradbury Building is the oldest commercial building remaining in downtown Los Angeles and one of the city's unique treasures. Behind its modest exterior lies a fifty-foot, light-filled interior court with open cage elevators, marble stairs, and ornate iron railings, capped by an enormous skylight. It has appeared in scores of films and TV shows, including "Double Indemnity," "Chinatown," and "Blade Runner." Considered by many to be the first truly "modern" building in Los Angeles, it broke cleanly from the traditions of the time. The Bradbury Building was restored in the early 1990s as one of the first steps in downtown's revitalization. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #6, Listed in the National Register of Historic Places Photo by Julius Shulman. Copyright J. Paul Getty Trust/Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at The Getty Research Institute.