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unusual facts about Miracle Mile


Here Come the Choppers

The title track is an acerbic and blackly humorous reference to the Iraq War, reset in southern California's Miracle Mile


Edge city

New Center and the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles are considered the earliest automobile-oriented urban forms, although built with radically different purposes in mind (New Center as an office park, the Miracle Mile as a retail strip).

Harold A. Henry

Henry was active in the development and beautification of Wilshire Boulevard and the Miracle Mile.

Young Quinn

In the 1975 Miracle Mile, Australia's premier mile, at Harold Park he did the almost impossible - he won from barrier six!


see also

Dream Mile

This was described by Duncan Mackay in The Observer as "...a race to rival the 'Miracle Mile' taking middle-distance running into a new era. To many it still remains the greatest 1,500m race ever."

Interstate 10 in Arizona

The original highway from Casa Grande to Tucson entered the Old Pueblo via Miracle Mile, a road modeled after German Autobahns but without overpasses or an exclusive right of way.

Ohrbach's

In 1965, the Miracle Mile store was relocated in the former Seibu Department Store at Wilshire and Fairfax Avenue.

Park La Brea, Los Angeles

As the towers are relatively isolated from the rest of the Miracle Mile — set far back from major thoroughfares in a nod to Le Corbusier, they developed a reputation as "the projects," since they are reminiscent of such notorious housing developments as Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes and New York's Queensbridge.