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unusual facts about The Miracle Mile


Barenaked Ladies Are Me

Kevin Hearn was also busy writing songs at his own cabin, where he completed several songs for this album, as well as a large portion of his own album The Miracle Mile.



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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."

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).

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.