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Title
Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Many of the structures seen here have since been demolished.; The entire 1931 French Zig-Zag Moderne style complex, which includes ground floor businesses, the Wiltern Theatre, and the Pellissier Building, was designed by Stiles O. Clements and is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Looking east down Wilshire Boulevard from just west of where it crosses Western Avenue. Various businesses, including the Wiltern and the Pellisier Building, and billboards are seen throughout.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00104600
Blackstock Negative Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b48_f4_i17
CARL0005196190
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117375
Subject
Wiltern (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pellissier Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Office buildings--California--Los Angeles
Billboards--California--Los Angeles
Theaters--California--Los Angeles
Marquees--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Advertising--Alcoholic beverages--California--Los Angeles
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Wilshire Lanterns
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Western Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Blackstock Collection photographs
Clements, Stiles Oliver,1883-1966

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