{"id":18655,"date":"2019-08-24T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=18655"},"modified":"2019-08-24T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:41:00","slug":"ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/24\/ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph\u2019s supermarket at Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18656\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/24\/ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949-2\/ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?fit=1756%2C1126&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1756,1126\" 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":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Ralph’s supermarket at Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills, 1949\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?fit=300%2C192&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?fit=640%2C411&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18656\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?resize=640%2C411&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ralph\u2019s supermarket at Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr., Beverly Hills, 1949\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?resize=1024%2C657&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?resize=300%2C192&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?resize=768%2C492&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?w=1756&ssl=1 1756w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ralphs-supermarket-at-Wilshire-Blvd-and-Crescent-Dr.-Beverly-Hills-1949.png?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>One of my favorite styles of architecture that you see in some of the older buildings around Los Angeles is the soaring tower whose purpose is purely ornamental. It\u2019s probably got an official name but I think of it as the \u201cHere-I-Am-Notice-Me\u201d style. This one on the Ralph\u2019s supermarket on the northeast corner of Wilshire Blvd and Crescent Dr. in Beverly Hills in 1949 appears to have seven large glass blocks on each side of the tower, which makes it all the more wonderful, if you ask me.<\/h3>\n<h3>The same view in December 2014:<\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/24\/ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949-2\/dec-2014\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?fit=1942%2C910&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1942,910\" 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":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Dec 2014\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?fit=300%2C141&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?fit=640%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?resize=640%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?resize=1024%2C480&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?resize=300%2C141&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?resize=768%2C360&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?w=1942&ssl=1 1942w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Dec-2014.png?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite styles of architecture that you see in some of the older buildings around Los Angeles is the soaring tower whose purpose is purely ornamental. It\u2019s probably got an official name but I think of it as … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/24\/ralphs-supermarket-at-wilshire-blvd-and-crescent-dr-beverly-hills-1949-2\/\">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":[11,9,37,13],"class_list":["post-18655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beverly-hills","tag-color-photo","tag-stores-and-shopping","tag-wilshire-blvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-4QT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655","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=18655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}