Wilshire boulevard

Beautiful 1946 view looking east on Wilshire Boulevard at the Asbury Apartments & Hotel and Arcady (later Wilshire Royale), in Los Angeles' Westlake area. Photo California State Library.

Photograph of traffic on Wilshire Boulevard west of Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1932. "Subject: Traffic on Wilshire west of Western

los angeles in the mid 30s

Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Great shot from the 1960s of downtown Beverly Hills. The black lines in the middle of the photo are crop marks used to indicate where to crop the photo for publishing.

1928 & 2014 Wilshire Westmoreland NW

I don’t know what was going on in this colorized postcard photo when it was taken. It’s unusual to see traffic jams this thick but something was definitely going on—look at how crowded the sidewalk outside Bullocks Wilshire is. Given that this was circa early 1940s before America entered the war and gasoline went on strict rationing, this could well have been the last great pre-war L.A. traffic jam.

There were extenuating circumstances. I was in LA for work, and I had known, intellectually, that it would be warm in California—hot, even. But when you’re deep in a New York winter, who really thinks to pack a sundress? The lightest thing I had was a pair of jeans. So on a particularly Saharan afternoon, …

Title: Soldiers’ Home [Sawtelle Veterans Home] Repository: California Historical Society Digital object ID: CHS2013.1297 Collection: Views of Los Angeles, California Photographer: Putnam and Valentine Date: Undated Format: Photographic print: b&w; 20 x 25 cm. General notes: Putnam & Valentine was a partnership of J.R. Putnam and W.S. Valentine, stereo photographers active in Los Angeles, circa 1898-1912. Preferred citation: Soldiers’ Home, Views of Los Angeles, California, courtesy…

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Is it a car? - Kind of. Is it a boat- Kind of! It's the fastest car on the water and the fastest boat on the road, it's the ambitious car-boat hybrid

File name: 06_10_009716a Title: Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Subject: Cities & towns Notes: Title from item. Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions

12008 Wilshire Boulevard West Los Angeles

A color photo of the Brown Derby restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard is always welcome. This one from circa late 1960s shows the Derby still in good condition. Its paint job looks fairly intact, the flowerbed out front is filled with pretty flowers, and the sign on top has made it unscathed through the ravages of time.

(c.1938)- PICKWICK BOOKS (Hollywood Blvd.)

By Sandi HemmerleinEditor's note: Last night (7/10/18) 10 That Changed America featured Wilshire Boulevard on its 10 Streets That Changed America episode.…

Next to Sunset, Wilshire Boulevard may be one of Los Angeles' most iconic streets: a 15.8-mile ribbon stretching from its historic core to the Pacific,

The French version of Hollywood Boulevard is in a huge building like a sound stage rather than an open street.

Urban Light is a large-scale assemblage sclupture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles country museum of art.