Calls by former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for construction of a Wilshire Boulevard extension of the Purple Line subway led many transportation planners and Century City occupants and neighbors to call for a southerly routing of the extension that would pass by Century City on its northern leg.
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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).
The Los Angeles Art Association exhibited Cavanna's work in a 1954 showing at 2425 Wilshire Boulevard.
Henry was active in the development and beautification of Wilshire Boulevard and the Miracle Mile.
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In 1955 the district included much of the Wilshire district and in general was bounded by Fountain Avenue, Wilshire Boulevard, Fairfax Avenue and Catalina Street.
The Barnetts moved to Los Angeles and bought a mansion on Wilshire Boulevard, where Jackson passed his time directing traffic at a nearby intersection.
Fling had its official Los Angeles Premiere on October 18, 2008, at the Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard as part of the 2008 LA Femme Film Festival.
Having failed to obtain reform within the archdiocese through peaceful means, the Católicos targeted the recently constructed (to the tune of $4 million) St. Basil's Catholic Church on Wilshire Boulevard.
He was also an associate architect between 1922 and 1929 for the Temple B'nai B'rith at Wilshire and Hobart Boulevards, now known as the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, also called The Sephardic Temple, is a large, urban Sephardi Jewish synagogue located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Warner Avenue.
Silverman, born in Cortland, New York, was the publisher and editor of Variety until his death from a heart attack at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard soon after launching the daily.
Pioneer Savings Bank Building, on Wilshire Boulevard (3245 Wilshire Boulevard, at northeast corner of New Hampshire St., opposite I. Magnin building), Los Angeles, 1953
Many of the scenes were filmed on location in Flood’s/Knight’s luxurious penthouse apartments in the historic Talmadge building on Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard; much of the automobile driving shown runs up and down Wilshire.
During the 2005 campaign for Mayor of Los Angeles, ultimately victorious candidate Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to begin construction on the Wilshire Boulevard subway.
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The district was "in the south-central section of the city," bounded by Wilshire and Jefferson boulevards and La Brea Avenue and Main Street.
At the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax is the former May Company department store building, which has been converted to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Two well-known stores were located on the corners of 8th Street and Broadway, and Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
Both Lundeberg and Feitelman participated in a showing of art for the Los Angeles Art Association on Wilshire Boulevard in 1954.
Major east/west thoroughfares in Santa Monica are San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Olympic Boulevard, Pico Boulevard, and Ocean Park Boulevard.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and innovative contemporary architect Zoltan Pali, the Academy Museum will be located next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus in the landmarked 1939 May Company building on Wilshire Boulevard.
Originally opened on Wilshire Boulevard in 1936 by lawyer Tom Bergin, it has been at its current location on Fairfax Avenue since 1949.