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Wilshire Boulevard ( ['wɪɫ.ʃɚ]) is a prominent 15.83 mi (25.48 km) boulevard in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, extending from Ocean Avenue in the city of Santa Monica east to Grand Avenue in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal east–west arterial roads of Los Angeles, it is also one of the ...
- 15.83 mi (25.48 km)
- Gaylord Wilshire
- Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles
- Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica
Dec 25, 2023 · As Wilshire Boulevard flourished in the 1920s, Wilshire broadened his interests. He befriended the Irish dramatist and wit George Bernard Shaw - and used Shaw's face in advertisements for the I-On-A-Co. The I-On-A-Co was a magnetic heating belt that purportedly cured insomnia, goiters, deafness, constipation - and gray hair.
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The boulevard got its name from millionaire socialist Henry Gaylord Wilshire, who in 1895 began developing 35 acres stretching westward from Westlake Park for an elite residential subdivision. Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land 120 feet wide by 1,200 feet long for a boulevard, on the conditions that it would be named for him and that ...
The Temple at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard is dedicated in a three-day ceremony over June 7, 8, and 9. The domed structure is inspired by the great cathedrals of Europe and built in a Byzantine and Romanesque style. The interior is patterned after the Pantheon in Rome. Wilshire Boulevard Temple In Construction.
Zucky’s Restaurant CL (Sign only) 431 Wilshire Blvd. Weldon J. Fulton, 1954 This “Googie”-styled coffee shop made smart use of its corner site with angled and overlapping canopies and floor-to-ceiling glass. The pylon sign from 1962 is a city landmark, though the restaurant has long been vacant.
Mar 23, 2013 · Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic. March 23, 2013. We think of Wilshire Boulevard as synonymous with Los Angeles — as our Main Street. But Wilshire has always stood apart from the city it ...
Apr 28, 2021 · The history of Wilshire Blvd and its ‘millionaire socialist’. Wilshire Blvd. is arguably the most important boulevard in Los Angeles today, says Kevin Roderick, author of “Wilshire Blvd: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles.”. Photo by Mike Schlitt. Gaylord Wilshire was a land speculator, billboard tycoon, failed politician and inventor.
