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The Perfume Hall of the spectacularly art deco palace—the Bullocks Wilshire department store on Wilshire Boulevard. It is now the Southwestern Law School.

The upscale Bullock’s Wilshire department store opened in 1929 (this picture was taken in 1936), just prior to the stock market crash and on a partly-deserted stretch of Wilshire Boulevard so far from downtown that people thought it’d never make … Continue reading →