{"id":5729,"date":"2014-09-03T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinturnbull.com\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:55:41","slug":"driving-east-along-wilshire-blvd-at-the-corner-of-ardmore-ave-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2014\/09\/03\/driving-east-along-wilshire-blvd-at-the-corner-of-ardmore-ave-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving east along Wilshire Blvd at the corner of Ardmore Ave, 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5730\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2014\/09\/03\/driving-east-along-wilshire-blvd-at-the-corner-of-ardmore-ave-1929\/wilshire_and_ardmore_1929\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?fit=720%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,356\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Driving east along Wilshire Blvd at the corner of Ardmore Ave, 1929\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?fit=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?fit=640%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5730\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?resize=640%2C316\" alt=\"Driving east along Wilshire Blvd at the corner of Ardmore Ave, 1929\" width=\"640\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wilshire_and_Ardmore_1929.jpg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>If this were 1929, and you were driving eastward along Wilshire Blvd toward downtown, and passed through the intersection of Ardmore Ave, this would be your view. The Ambassador Hotel would be coming up on your right in a few blocks, and on the left the original Brown Derby. Pretty soon (because clearly there\u2019s no traffic) you\u2019d be passing Bullocks Wilshire department store and then you\u2019d find yourself driving through Westlake Park (because you wouldn\u2019t know it as MacArthur park until 1942.)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this were 1929, and you were driving eastward along Wilshire Blvd toward downtown, and passed through the intersection of Ardmore Ave, this would be your view. The Ambassador Hotel would be coming up on your right in a few &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2014\/09\/03\/driving-east-along-wilshire-blvd-at-the-corner-of-ardmore-ave-1929\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,105,20,13],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ambassador-hotel","tag-bullocks-wilshire","tag-los-angeles","tag-wilshire-blvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-1up","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","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=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}