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BOULEVARDLou Ehler's Cadillac SecuritY First National CamPanile • Clem Wilson 5300 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Metro Station Cochran APts • SontaG DruGs Lee Tower El ReY Museum SQuare La Brea Discoveries • Tar Pits SculPture Garden LACMA GENESEE LACMA Urban LiGht BP Plaza BCAM Farmers Market • MaY ComPanY 6100 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Johnies CRESCENT HEIGHTS Medical Plaza Gershon Office BuildinG LA JOLLA Goldsmith SWEETZER SAN VINCENTE BOULEVARD San Vicente Plaza Clock Market 8800 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AcademY Twin Towers Kate Mantilini Gibraltar Ahmanson Bank Kreedman BldG SterlinG Plaza BeverlY-Wilshire Center Taschen • Prada • Court • 2 Twin Tower Wells FarGo Bank SecuritY Pacific Plaza CitY National Bank Manufacturer Bank Hobbit House • WALDEN 800 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hilton DePartment Store |
MIRACLE MILE/B.H.BacK | HomE | NexTMuseums, Shops and Office Buildings between La Brea Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard ORANGE Time Oil SYCAMORE Columbia • MetroPlaza • Firestone LA BREA AVENUE DETROIT Darkroom CLOVERDALE Wilshire-DominGuez COCHRAN DUNSMUIR Desmond's BURNSIDE RIDGELEY HAUSER Cal Fed MASSELIN SIERRA BONITA CURSON STANLEY SPAULDING Mutual Benefit Life Plaza • Buck House OGDEN ParkinG ORANGE GROVE Auto Museum FAIRFAX New Wilshire McCARTHY VISTA Zenith • CarthaY Plaza Petersen Fairview SCHUMACHER - - - - - - - - - - 8300 TOWER Griffin BuildinG GALE Theatre HAMILTON Great Western LA CIENEGA LE DOUX Fine Arts STANLEY CARSON WILLAMAN HAMEL ARNAZ Bank of America SculPture ROBERTSON CLARK SWALL LA PEER ICM ALMONT WETHERLY Theatre DOHENY DohenY Plaza Theatre 9100 OAKHURST PALM MAPLE REXFORD Larwin GrouP ELM CRESCENT CANON REEVES Glendale Federal SavinGs BEVERLY EL CAMINO Motel RODEO CAMDEN PECK BEDFORD ROXBURY McCarty PerPetual SavinGs LINDEN SPALDING CAA SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD CARMELLITA TRENTON WHITTIER BacK | HomE | FAQ | NexT In 1924 developer A.W. Ross began to buy up property along Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea Avenues. Still open fields in many places, he saw an extraordinary potential of this area as an automobile-based commercial thoroughfare. But the downtown business community opposed a change of the zoning designation to be safe from retail competition. Ross was defeated in a citywide referendum and in the courts, but nobody could stop the booming Fifth Avenue of the West. A real miracle and the name stuck, since today! For more information i highly recommend the book Wilshire Boulevard - Grand Concourse of Los Angeles by Kevin Roderick. |