The Old Bank District (4th Street between Main and Los Angeles) is downtown LA’s most shade-engineered corridor. The pre-war bank buildings — the Continental, the Hellman, the Pan American — were built tall and close, and their deep parapets cast hard shadows across the streets from 10 AM until 4 PM. The cast-iron awnings on the storefronts cover what the buildings don’t.
These picks string the bank buildings together with the Grand Central Market’s arcade and the Spring Street historic core.