One of my favorite styles of architecture that you see in some of the older buildings around Los Angeles is the soaring tower whose purpose is purely ornamental. It’s probably got an official name but I think of it as the “Here-I-Am-Notice-Me” style. This one on the Ralph’s supermarket on the northeast corner of Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr. in Beverly Hills in 1949 appears to have seven large glass blocks on each side of the tower, which makes it all the more wonderful, if you ask me.
One of my favorite styles of architecture that you see in some of the older buildings around Los Angeles is the soaring tower whose purpose is purely ornamental. It’s probably got an official name but I think of it as the “Here-I-Am-Notice-Me” style. This one on the Ralph’s supermarket on the northeast corner of Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr. in Beverly Hills in 1949 appears to have seven large glass blocks on each side of the tower, which makes it all the more wonderful, if you ask me.
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