We Angelenos are used to experiencing Wilshire Blvd as a crowded corridor of towering office buildings and apartment houses. It can be easy to forget that it was once a regal thoroughfare of large homes and sweeping lawns. This 1930 photo shows us the view looking east on Wilshire Boulevard at Wilshire Place toward downtown. Lots of wide-open space, greenery, and loads of parking. It looks like a pretty nice place to grow up, if you ask me.

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WHO PUT THE WILSHIRE INTO WILSHIRE?
By Gaylord Wilshire, originator of the Wilshire Boulevard
Wilshire & Co.
3144 Wilshire Boulevard at the corner of Vermont
Los Angeles
Telephone Dunkirk 7469