Wilshire Boulevard

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The Wilshire Blvd. with its high-rise buildings in the Westwood section (2009)

The Wilshire Boulevard [ 'wilʃəɻ' bu̇ləˌvard ] ( Listen ? / I ) is one of the main east-west axis in Los Angeles . It connects Santa Monica with Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles . The main street was named after Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), a large landowner , publisher and socialist . Wilshire had transferred the area to the Los Angeles City Council in 1895 with the stipulation that the main thoroughfare to be built should bear his name. Audio file / audio sample

Description and location

Course of Wilshire Boulevard

The Wilshire Boulevard extends over a length of 26 kilometers from the Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles to Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica . A number of skyscrapers line Wilshire Boulevard , including Aon Center , once the tallest building in the city and currently the tallest building in the Wilshire Grand Tower . The main building of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the integrated Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at “8949 Wilshire Boulevard” in Beverly Hills .

The office building built by Edward Durell Stone in 1962 for the Perpetual Savings and Loan Association (9720 Wilshire Blvd., corner of McCarty Drive; now Pacific Mercantile Bank ) is also architecturally valuable .

The central section of Wilshire Boulevard , Miracle Mile , is between Fairfax Avenue and La Brea Avenue . The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Page Museum with the La Brea Tar Pits are located there in Hancock Park .

The boulevard has been expanded to four to ten lanes since the 1980s and has partially structurally separate carriageways.

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Literature and Sources

  • Kevin Roderick, J. Eric Lynxwiler: Wilshire Boulevard: The Grand Concourse of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 2005. ISBN 1-883318-55-6 .

Web links

Commons : Wilshire Boulevard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/home-federal-savingspacific-mercantile-bank-building

Coordinates: 34 ° 3 '36 "  N , 118 ° 21' 36"  W.