They certainly don’t make hotel lobbies like this anymore. This is the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills in 1929. When this photo was taken, the place had only been open a year (it was built on the site of the former Beverly Hills Speedway, a 1.25-mile wooden board track for automobile racing) so this gives us a good idea of the sumptuousness of the place. Look at the detail in the ceiling and at the tops of the columns. This would have been considered the height of late 1920s elegance.
UPDATE: This shot was colorized by @colourization on Twitter. It really brings it to life, doesn’t it?
They certainly don’t make hotel lobbies like this anymore. This is the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills in 1929. When this photo was taken, the place had only been open a year (it was built on the site of the former Beverly Hills Speedway, a 1.25-mile wooden board track for automobile racing) so this gives us a good idea of the sumptuousness of the place. Look at the detail in the ceiling and at the tops of the columns. This would have been considered the height of late 1920s elegance.
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