This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi. Looking northeast across Wilshire Boulevard, showing restaurants and a bar located within the eastern section of an Art Deco shopping center at 3951-3955 Wilshire Boulevard. There is a Chinese restaurant (left), a bar called the Executive Room (center), and Chicken Delight (left). This entire shopping center was later razed and replaced with Wilshire Gramercy Plaza. In the background is the French style residential building, Gramercy Wilshire.
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1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm. Photographic color slides
Gramercy Wilshire (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.) Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--Los Angeles Chinese restaurants--California--Los Angeles Restaurants--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--French influences Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs Slides
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