{"id":12107,"date":"2017-02-14T07:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T15:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=12107"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:01:12","slug":"wilshire-blvd-los-angeles-with-the-town-house-hotel-and-bullocks-wilshire-tower-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/02\/14\/wilshire-blvd-los-angeles-with-the-town-house-hotel-and-bullocks-wilshire-tower-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, with the Town House Hotel and Bullocks Wilshire tower, 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12108\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/02\/14\/wilshire-blvd-los-angeles-with-the-town-house-hotel-and-bullocks-wilshire-tower-1955\/wilshire-blvd-los-angeles-with-the-town-house-hotel-and-bullocks-wilshire-tower-1954\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?fit=1600%2C1142&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1142\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, with the Town House Hotel and Bullocks Wilshire tower, 1954\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?fit=300%2C214&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?fit=640%2C457&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12108 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?resize=640%2C457&ssl=1\" alt=\"Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, with the Town House Hotel and Bullocks Wilshire tower, 1954\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?resize=1024%2C731&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?resize=300%2C214&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?resize=768%2C548&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Wilshire-Blvd-Los-Angeles-with-the-Town-House-Hotel-and-Bullocks-Wilshire-tower-1954.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A little part of me claps like a kid at the circus when I find a vintage color photo of Los Angeles. This one shows us Wilshire Blvd looking east toward downtown LA. The two striking features are the Town House Hotel on the left, and the soaring, copper-topped tower of the Bullocks Wilshire department store on the right. But what really caught my eye was the woody station wagon turning onto Wilshire from Vermont Ave. (clap! clap!)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little part of me claps like a kid at the circus when I find a vintage color photo of Los Angeles. This one shows us Wilshire Blvd looking east toward downtown LA. The two striking features are the Town … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2017\/02\/14\/wilshire-blvd-los-angeles-with-the-town-house-hotel-and-bullocks-wilshire-tower-1955\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,9,33,37,222,13],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bullocks-wilshire","tag-color-photo","tag-hotels","tag-stores-and-shopping","tag-town-house-hotel","tag-wilshire-blvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-39h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}