Looking east along Wilshire Blvd from Western Ave, Los Angeles, April 12, 1926

Looking east along Wilshire Blvd from Western Ave, Los Angeles, April 12, 1926These days, the intersection of Wilshire Blvd and Western Ave is dominated by the gloriously Art Deco Wiltern Theater, which opened in 1931. But this photo of Wilshire looking east from Western in 1926, shows us a more low-key neighborhood with no high rises and semaphore signals controlling the (surprisingly busy) traffic. I can’t see any lanes painted along Wilshire, which makes me wonder if it was a drivers free-for-all.

Roughly the same view in March 2019:

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One response to “Looking east along Wilshire Blvd from Western Ave, Los Angeles, April 12, 1926”

  1. john says:

    I love the old street signals. I wish they were still used.

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