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The Miracle Mile development was initially anchored by the May Company Department Store with its landmark 1939 Streamline Moderne building on the west [7] and the E. Clem Wilson Building on the east, then Los Angeles's tallest commercial building. The Wilson Building had a dirigible mast on top and was home to a number of businesses and ...
Los Angeles skyline in 2024, with Downtown Los Angeles in the background and Westwood in the foreground McArthur Park view of the DTLA skyline. Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles The Wilshire Grand Center is the tallest building in Los Angeles , California , measuring 1,100 feet (335.3 m) in height.
Wilshire Tower is a nine-story tower at 5514 Wilshire Boulevard on the Miracle Mile in the city of Los Angeles.It was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who was also the architect of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, the North Rim lodge at the Grand Canyon, and the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Miracle Mile at the heart of Mid-Wilshire, 2004 The historic May Company Building (now part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at the intersection of Wilshire and Fairfax in Mid-Wilshire Park La Brea, 2009 Historic Richardson Apartments at Gramercy Drive and Eighth Street, 2012 William Grant Still residence at 1262 South Victoria Avenue, 2012
The Saban Building, formerly the May Company Building, on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, is a celebrated example of Streamline Moderne architecture. The building's architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., also designed the Million Dollar Theater and Los Angeles City Hall.
From 1952 to 1992 May opened stores across suburban Los Angeles and Southern California (see table below). May Company-Lakewood opened at Lakewood Center on February 18, 1952, the four-level, 346,700-square-foot (32,210 m 2 ) [ 49 ] May Company-Lakewood was the largest suburban department store in the world.
The Miracle Mile Murders, also known as the Miracle Mile Massacre or the Koreatown Slayings, was a 2003 mass-murder in Koreatown, Los Angeles.The crime was notorious for its savagery [2] and its apparent lack of motive, and it went cold until March 2009.
Johnie's is located across from the May Co. department store, one of Los Angeles' best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, on the Miracle Mile. The May Co. building is now part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Johnie's was declared a historical landmark by the Los Angeles City Council on November 27, 2013. [3]