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Wilson Building was built in 1909 and massively altered in 1932. [1] Woolworth's occupied the building in 1937, with the business and building featuring a 100 yd (91 m) lunch counter , the longest in the world at the time.
Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1] [2]
Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2) Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock (owner of the more mainstream Bullock's in Downtown Los Angeles). [2]
Downtown Los Angeles's Woolworth's building was designed by Weeks and Day and built in 1920. [1] The cost of construction was approximately $100,000 ($1.52 million in 2023) and the building's original tenant was Woolworth's.
Additionally, the building was listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #765 in 2003. [ 1 ] In 2010, Blackstone's Department Store was converted to 82 apartments with ground-floor retail space and a subterranean parking garage.
Wurlitzer Building, built in 1923, was designed by Walker & Eisen, the architecture firm responsible for several buildings on Broadway, including the Silverwood's and Platt buildings. [1] This building, originally lofts on the top eight floors and offices for Wurlitzer below, was billed as "the world's largest music house" upon its completion.
Wilshire Boulevard originated as one of the central pathways constructed by the Tongva tribes residing in the region prior to the exploration of the conquistadores. [6] At the time of the founding of Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard was one of the main arteries connecting the largest Tongva village in the area, then known as Yaanga, which eventually became Union Station, to the Pacific Ocean.
Apple Store at The Grove designed by Foster and Partners. The 575,000-square-foot (53,400 m 2) outdoor marketplace is located in Los Angeles' Fairfax District.Initial architectural design was performed in-house by David Williams of Caruso Affiliated Holdings and by KMD Architects of San Francisco. [6]