Most of the focus on the 3000 stretch of Wilshire Blvd get swallowed up by the Ambassador Hotel at 3400 Wilshire, but opposite it, at 3355 Wilshire is worth remembering too—especially as it has survived the years longer than the hotel. The Gaylord Apartments (named after Gaylord Wilshire) opened on April 29, 1924, three years after the Ambassador, to a crowd of 2000 Angelenos eager to see the marble floors, mahogany finishes, custom tapestries and furnishings, one of most beautiful lobbies in Los Angeles, barber shop, ballroom, retail space, AND a garbage chute from every apartment. This aerial shot is circa 1925 and that expanse of lawn at the bottom of the photo belongs to the Ambassador so the view from the south-facing apartments must have been pretty glorious.