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Title
Bullock's Wilshire from Virgil Avenue
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
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
John and Donald Parkinson designed the 1929 Bullock's Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard; it was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #56 in 1968. The Southwestern Law School acquired the structure in the mid-1990s.
View of Bullock's Wilshire department store from a block east at Virgil Avenue where it meets Wilshire Blvd. Various models of old cars are seen on both sides of Wilshire Blvd.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00059178
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Shops and stores-Department stores-Bullock's Wilshire; N-002-227 4x5
CARL0000063061
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/104793
Subject
Bullock's Wilshire (Department store)
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Department stores--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945
Parkinson, John,1861-1935
Virgil Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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