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Title
Miracle Mile
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1982
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Looking east from Wilshire Boulevard and Cloverdale Avenue in the late afternoon, November 1982. Seen are various billboards, signs, commercial buildings, and businesses, including the E. Clem Wilson Building, occupied by Mutual of Omaha Insurance, the Carnation Company Building, Brown's Wilshire Bakery, Roman Foods Market, First Interstate Bank, Southwest Savings, Bank of America, ARCO, Burger King, and Ajax Rent-A-Car.
Type
image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00161812
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_123_f2_s9
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/141450
Subject
Office buildings
Bank buildings
Storefronts
Commercial buildings
Department stores
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Stores & shops
Signs and signboards
Streets
Buses
Palms
Street signs
Automobiles
Sidewalks
Billboards
Street lighting
E. Clem Wilson Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
Carnation Company Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Carnation Company
Grocers
Roads--Interchanges and intersections
Bank of America
Southwest Savings and Loan Association
First Interstate Bank of California
Ajax Rent-A-Car
Burger King Corporation
Automobile leasing and renting
Atlantic Richfield Co
Pedestrians
Traffic signs and signals
Lost architecture
Art deco (Architecture)
Meyer & Holler
Miracle Mile (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cloverdale Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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