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Title: Wilshire and Fairfax
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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.
Description: Postcard of the beginning of the Miracle Mile, at Fairfax and Wilshire, with the May Co. store prominently seen in the background. The May Co. has a Streamline Modern style with gold corner towers. Built in 1940. Architects: A.C. Martin, S.A. Marx.
Type: image
Format: Postcards
Identifier: 00031287
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
S-003-177 4x5; L.A.-Streets-Fairfax and Wilshire.
CARL0000033611
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/96003
Subject: May Company California
Department stores--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Photographic postcards
Marx, Samuel A
Martin, Albert C.,1879-1960
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Miracle Mile (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1941
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