I do love a color photo that shows us what it was like to stand on a LA street on an average day in the 1950s. We’re facing east along the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Blvd looking toward Ohrbach’s and Coulter’s department stores. Ohrbach’s opened on the north side of Wilshire at 5711 before moving into the old Seibu department store building on the south side at 6060 in 1964. Coulter’s opened at 5600 Wilshire in 1938. Judging by the blue 1952 Oldsmobile facing us and 1954 Cadillac caught in the traffic back up, I’d say this is from mid-1950s.

This is roughly how that view looked in May 2024.