In this shot from 1954, we’re looking east along Wilshire Blvd from Vermont Ave toward to buildings that are still with us: the Bullocks Wilshire department store and the Town House hotel. The store is now a law library and the hotel is now a low-cost housing community, but they still punctuate the Wilshire skyline.

The current view along this stretch of Wilshire is greener now than it used to be back then when there were zero trees protecting Californians from the Angeleno sun. The iconic Bullocks Wilshire tower has become a little lost among the skyscrapers. (May 2019)