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Wilshire Boulevard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. This and the nearby intersection of Wilshire and Veteran are among the busiest in Los Angeles. Wilshire Boulevard formerly ended at the park's lake, but in 1934 a berm was built for it to cross and link up with the existing Orange Street (which ran from Figueroa to Alvarado) into downtown Los Angeles. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilshire_Boulevard   (562 words)

Wilshire Center Wilshire Boulevard was mostly populated by homes then, with some small office buildings and block after block of vacant land. Wilshire Boulevard survived the Depression of the 1930s as well as land speculators' exploitation and was fast becoming the heart of Los Angeles, a symbol of the city's exciting growth. Wilshire Boulevard was the place to see and be seen-movie stars motored down the avenue in their Packards, Lincolns and Cords. www.wilshirecenter.com /live/History1.htm   (2003 words)

Wilshire Vista Neighborhood Association - Los Angeles, California - History The Wilshire Vista neighborhood began in the early 1920's during a decade of major population growth in Los Angeles. The area between Pico and Wilshire Boulevards, west of La Brea Avenue, was plotted and subdivided during that time. Wilshire Vista was touted as the "Cream of Wilshire" — incomparable for its "sightliness, general desirability and ready accessibility!" Lots were offered by the McCarty and Vaughan Corporation for $1,650 and up. www.wilshirevista.org /history.html   (411 words)

VCA Wilshire Animal Hospital - Phase II & III Facilities - College of Veterinary Medicine - Western University of ... Wilshire Animal Hospital is a small animal mixed and exotic animal practice located in Santa Monica and is staffed by three veterinarians and twenty-two full-time paraprofessional staff. Wilshire Animal Hospital is located 45 miles from Western University of Health Sciences and is approximately a 65-minute drive from campus. Wilshire Animal Hospital encompasses 4400 square feet on one level and has an annual caseload of 26,300 patients, 7,600 of which are exotic or avian species. www.westernu.edu /xp/edu/veterinary/wilshirehosp.xml   (272 words)

Wilshire Boulevard from Angel City Press Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los Angeles history. Wilshire's style, architecture and historic prominence are recorded in more than 150 photos, so readers understand the fascinating cultural geography of the first auto-dependent metropolis. Wilshire Boulevard details the thoroughfare's crucial part in the emergence of Los Angeles as a world city and relates the fascinating story of Gaylord Wilshire, the turn-of-the-century social gadfly who never experienced his namesake's enduring fame. www.angelcitypress.com /wibl.html   (337 words)

Kevin Roderick . Wilshire Boulevard . CaliforniaAuthors.com Wilshire may be the only Los Angeles historical figure to have run for elected office in three countries, always under the Socialist Party banner, always in defeat. Wilshire’s boulevard became the defining Automobile Age thoroughfare in the country, world-famous as a symbol of the expansionist longings of 20th century Los Angeles. Wilshire grew from a dirt scratch in the treeless terrain into the unofficial Main Street and long, thin ad-hoc downtown for the city that has no true center. www.californiaauthors.com /excerpt-roderick.shtml   (1429 words)

One Wilshire - Providing Global Network Access To The World's Telecomm And Network Supercarriers The One Wilshire Building has long been one of Los Angeles’ landmarks due to its location at the very beginning of the City’s most important artery, Wilshire Boulevard. Today, the One Wilshire Building has emerged as the premier communications hub of the Pacific Rim and is branded internationally within the telecommunications industry as the single most important point of connectivity in the Western United States. One Wilshire is home to virtually all of the market leaders in the telecommunications industry. www.onewilshire.com /our_building/index.htm   (236 words)

Los Angeles Conservancy | Curating the City This is followed by a one-day architectural tour of the length of Wilshire Blvd. on Sunday, October 2, from 10 a.m. Wilshire Boulevard means many things to many people. Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard is made possible by a grant from the Getty Foundation, the philanthropic division of the J. Paul Getty Trust. www.laconservancy.org /Wilshire/curatingthecity.php4   (630 words)

Time transforms role of buildings on Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles Business Journal - Find Articles The first development along what is now Wilshire Boulevard came in 1895, when developer Henry Gaylord Wilshire purchased 35 acres around what is now Lafayette Park for $52,000; the land had been used as a city dump. In 1926, Gloria Swanson's husband Herbert Somborn opened the Brown Derby, a hat-shaped eatery at the corner of Wilshire and Alexandria Avenue, a couple of blocks west of the Ambassador. Wilshire Christian Church was the first to be built in 1911; in the 1920s came St. James Episcopal Church, Immanuel Presbyterian Church and Wilshire Boulevard Temple. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_34_27/ai_n15384505   (842 words)

Wilshire Christian Church The Wilshire Christian Church traces its heritage to the First Christian Church of Los Angeles, established near the present site of the City Hall on August 9, 1874. On May 19, 1940, the First Church and the Magnolia Avenue Church merged with the Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church to form the Wilshire Christian Church of Los Angeles. The present property, at Wilshire and Normandie, was a loving gift of the Chapman brothers and their families. www.wchrisla.org /history.html   (679 words)

Kevin Roderick: Books Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles has been called the first great avenue of the Automobile Age and one of the most magnificent thoroughfares on the planet. Early boosters crowned Wilshire the Fifth Avenue of the West and the Champs-Elysee of the Pacific. The boulevard is a 15.8-mile museum of twentieth-century Los Angeles that connects the office towers of Downtown to the beach at Santa Monica, and along the way reveals the story of a city growing up. www.kevinroderick.com /books.html   (319 words)

Projects move forward on Westwood's 'Golden Mile' - Up Front - Wilshire Boulevard's real estate market Los Angeles ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) In addition to the Century Wilshire and Wilshire Malcolm projects, the Markowitz family, which owns Factor's Famous Deli in West Los Angeles, is breaking ground on a 19-unit residential project at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Devon Avenue early next year, according to family member Marvin Markowitz. The building boom, the most intense since projects like the Blair House, the Wilshire, the Wilshire Thayer and the Mirabella were built between 1982 and 1989, is a response to the combination of a hot real estate market and low interest rates. The Blair House at Wilshire and Warner Avenue and the Park Wilshire on Wilshire near Manning Avenue were casualties of high interest rates and oversupply. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_35_25/ai_107536653   (889 words)

Wilshire Boulevard | MetaFilter March 27, 2006 1:16 PM Curating the City A Flash exhibition exploring the past and present urban landscape of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Wilshire is kinda cool, but Figueroa Steet is much more interesting. Just read this today: "Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is an example of one grand exercise after another in superficially contrived distinction, for several miles of of innately monotonous office buildings" - Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. www.metafilter.com /mefi/50421   (430 words)

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Directions to the Trueblood Law Firm We are located in the Westwood area of West Los Angeles, at 10940 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1600, two blocks east of the 405 freeway. We are located on your left one block past Westwood Blvd, at the corner of Wilshire and Gayley/Midvale. We are on the south side of Wilshire at the corner of Gayley/Midvale. www.truebloodlawfirm.com /consumer_protection/directions.html   (421 words)

Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Even if you've never been to Beverly Hills, it's quite possible that the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel (located on Wilshire Boulevard, at the south end of world-famous Rodeo Drive) will look somewhat familiar to you. On March 21, 1998, at the height of "Titanic" hysteria, the Beverly Wilshire hosted The Princess Ball, a benefit for the Princess Diana Memorial Fund. The Beverly Wilshire offers 395 rooms, suites and cabanas (from $255 to $550), plus the Presidential suite, which goes for $5,500 per night, and the penthouse which for $7,500.00 per night. www.seeing-stars.com /Hotels/BeverlyWilshire.shtml   (609 words)

Kevin Roderick Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles returned to the Los Angeles Times bestseller list, at number nine. We were sitting in the HMS Bounty, a dark, red-banquette bar and grill on the ground floor of the Gaylord Apartments, directly across Wilshire Boulevard from the hotel grounds. He interviewed me at Wilshire and Park View Street, which is where the first mansion on the boulevard was built in 1898. www.kevinroderick.com   (2598 words)

Wilshire Bar Association, Los Angeles California Thank you to Wilshire Bar Members Ken Lewis, criminal law and personal injury attorney, and David L Rukstalis Jr, family law, civil, and criminal law attorney. Your Wilshire Bar Association provides activities and opportunities for attorneys in and around Wilshire Boulevard from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles, California, including Continuing Education of the Bar, Educational Interaction with the Judiciary, Links to Legal Resources, Networking, and Community Out-Reach Programs. Thank you Judge Barry Russell, Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, for your MCLE lecture to the Wilshire Bar on the new bankruptcy law. www.wilshirebar.org   (484 words)

Wilshire Boulevard Temple & Habitat Of Greater Los Angeles Team To Build For Local Families During Festival Of ... Wilshire Boulevard Temple and Habitat Of Greater Los Angeles Team To Build For Local Families During Festival Of Sukkot (PRWEB) October 7, 2006 -- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (www.habitatla.org) and Wilshire Boulevard Temple (www.wbtla.org) are partnering to build shelter for local families and raise awareness of the need for affordable housing during the Festival of Sukkot. The landmark partnership between Wilshire Boulevard Temple and HFH GLA helps to raise awareness and support of the need for affordable housing for local families. www.prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb447825.htm   (508 words)

Koreatown, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Koreatown is a community of the Wilshire Center district in the Mid-Wilshire area of the City of Los Angeles, California. While Koreatown's boundaries are not formally set, it occupies much of the area of the Wilshire Center, and is found between Arlington Avenue/Wilton Place on the west, Melrose Avenue on the north, Hoover Street on the east, and Pico Boulevard on the south. Four subway stations are located in the district; on the Wilshire branch of the Red Line, Wilshire/Western station sits across from the famous Wiltern Theatre at the western edge of Koreatown, while Wilshire/Normandie station is situated among a number of high-rise and historical buildings in the center of the district. en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Koreatown,_Los_Angeles,_California   (1324 words)

Hotel At the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard stands an icon of glamour and luxury - the world-renowned Beverly Hilton. FROM NORTH: 405 South to Wilshire Boulevard East exit. Go east on Wilshire Boulevard approximately 2 miles. www.assileye.com /html/hotel.html   (306 words)

Carrier Hotels: One Wilshire, Los Angeles One Wilshire, a 30-story, 656,000 square foot building at the junction of S. Grand Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Downtown Los Angeles, is located at the epicenter of a rich network of data switches, offering unparalleled connectivity among communication firms. One Wilshire is engineered to provide all tenants with 100 watts per square foot. One Wilshire has existing fuel storage and containment with associated pumping and filtering stations for approximately 21,000 gallons of diesel fuel. www.carrierhotels.com /properties/onewilshire/index.shtml   (745 words)

Amazon.com: Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles: Books: Kevin Roderick,J. Eric Lynxwiler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Whether you live in Los Angeles and long for a meaningful history of the city, or you live elsewhere and just wonder what all the glamour of the West is about, this book is one of the finest in publication. Roderick sees the process of development of Wilshire Boulevard as the matrix for the growth of Los Angeles as an important cosmopolitan presence. There is no doubt that the author has a real love for the history and a respect for the singular importance this boulevard had and has to the city of Angels. amazon.com /Wilshire-Boulevard-Grand-Concourse-Angeles/dp/1883318556   (1289 words)

GO >> AirTran Airways Inflight Magazine» Blog Archive » Wilshire Blvd, LA Named after Henry Gaylord Wilshire, the boulevard was once known as the “Fifth Avenue of the West Coast.” Developers like Wilshire imagined it as an elegant thoroughfare on a par with the famous streets of the world. But don’t fret—not all is lost on Wilshire Blvd. After all, this is the land of happy Hollywood endings. Parking at most stops on Wilshire is not free, but certain parts of the boulevard have limited free parking, as do certain side streets. airtranmagazine.com /contents/2006/01/wilshire-blvd-la   (1327 words)

Johnie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire Re-Opens for One Day Only! As Wilshire straightened out west of Lafayette Park, motorists were welcomed by the canted roof and glass enclosed interior of Tiny Naylors, designed in 1954, across the street from Bullocks Wilshire. With the exception of the transitional Zucky's (1954, Weldon J. Fulton) in Santa Monica, only Johnnie's at Fairfax and Wilshire, one of the busiest and most architecturally dynamic intersections in the City, survives as a reminder of Wilshire's glorious googie past. Located at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax on the western edge of the Miracle Mile, this is one of the last remaining examples of googie architecture. johnieswilshire.org   (1673 words)

Welcome to Wilshire Plaza Hotel Los Angeles The Wilshire Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles welcomes business and leisure travelers with fine appointments and luxurious accommodations. Wilshire Plaza Hotel is centrally located on famed Wilshire Boulevard, rivaled by none in guest satisfaction. Reflecting the cosmopolitan atmosphere, our multilingual staff extends you the exclusive Wilshire Plaza "Genuine Hospitality" - an unequaled standard of service. www.wilshireplazahotel.com   (177 words)

MPH/HP for Community Health Sciences - UCLA School of Public Health Exit the freeway at Wilshire Boulevard, heading east towards Westwood. Stay on Westwood Boulevard until you are on campus; the border of campus is Le Conte Avenue. Please park in Lot 9 and across from the parking lot is the School of Public Health. www.ph.ucla.edu /emph/cu_dir.html   (686 words)

Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps and Conference Center (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps and Conference Center (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) Wilshire Boulevard Temple was a pioneer in the early movement to provide children with a Jewish camping experience, and tens of thousands of kids have grown up in our unique summer programs. The Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps are dedicated to the finest possible summer camping experience for Jewish youth. www.wbtcamps.org.cob-web.org:8888 /summerprogram.html   (148 words)

Broadway/LA - Wilshire Theatre Directions & Parking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The Wilshire Theatre is located at 8440 Wilshire Boulevard (at Hamilton), one block east of La Cienega Boulevard in the city of Beverly Hills. The theatre is one block down on the right (south) side of the street. Underground parking is available in the Nibblers Building (enter from Gale, north of Wilshire) and in the Flynt Communications Building (enter from Hamilton, south of Wilshire). www.broadwayla.org /wilshire/directions.asp   (159 words)

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