I wish Wilshire Blvd still looked this calm and peaceful. We’re looking east along Wilshire from Camden Dr. in Beverly Hills circa 1936. This was before Rodeo Dr. became the mecca of luxury shopping that it later became. Back when this photo was taken, it was just a regular type of street where local Beverlyhillians shopped. The J.J. Haggarty department store on the right is gone, but the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is still with us. Around the middle of the photo, we can see the hat-shaped sign for the Beverly Hills Brown Derby restaurant, which opened at Wilshire and Rodeo in 1931. Its busiest night was Thursday, which was the traditional maid’s night off.
Kinda sorta the same view in January 2021.
I remember seeing the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in an old Chaplin film — City Lights, IIRC.
I’m happy to see The Beverly Wilshire is still there; and still operating as The Beverly Wilshire.
My wife and I went to the Beverly Hills Brown Derby in the late 1970’s before it closed. I am happy now to have been able to do that. My aunt was a buyer for J.J. Haggarty in the late 1950’s or 60’s. I noticed that the photos show the building that housed Haggarty’s and the one next door between it and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel are happily still there.