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Title: Wilshire Bowl
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1934
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: This structure was demolished in 1982 to make way for a large commercial development.
Exterior of the Wilshire Bowl, located at 5665 Wilshire Boulevard. Dinners are advertised at $1.50, and there is dancing on Sundays with no cover charge. Larry Kent and his orchestra play nightly.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008832
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (5109) 4x5; L.A.-Nightclubs-Wilshire Bowl
CARL0000010277
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/87539
Subject: Wilshire Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Miracle Mile (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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