In this circa 1930s photo, the photographer was standing at the last few blocks of Wilshire Blvd before it takes a 45° turn toward MacArthur Park (called Westlake Park at the time) and heads into downtown. The building on the left was Town House Hotel (now apartments) but it’s that line of buildings on the right that reminds us how diverse buildings where back then and what architectural eye candy it was. The good news is that those buildings are still with us.

Roughly the same view in March 2019: