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Trustee Building was designed by Parkinson and Bergstrom, the duo responsible for many buildings on Broadway, including Bullock's Building, Yorkshire Hotel, Metropolitan Building, and Broadway Mart Center.
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.
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
The Quality Cafe (also known as Quality Diner) was a diner at 1236 West 7th Street in Los Angeles, California.The restaurant ceased to function as a diner in late 2006 but has appeared as a location featured in a number of Hollywood films, including Million Dollar Baby, Training Day, Old School, Se7en, Ghost World, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Stepfather, What's Love Got to Do with It, Sex and ...
The Watts Towers were designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark in 1990. [4] [1] They are also a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park encompasses the Watts ...
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]
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The Good Life Cafe was a health food market and cafe in Los Angeles, California, known for its open mic nights that helped the 1990s Los Angeles alternative hip hop movement flourish. In 2008, director Ava DuVernay , who had performed at the cafe with the Figures of Speech hip hop group, released a documentary about the cafe, This Is The Life .