"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929

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Title	"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929
Description	Photograph of "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929. Automobiles park and drive along Wilshire which is lined by decorative trees and empty lots to the right and oil siphons with a few small commercial shop fronts to the left. Billboards and signs read "Wilshire Blvd. Frontage / High Class Income Property in this Vicinity / Hugh Evans & Co. Inc.", "Café La Boheme / Dining & Dancing", "Yellow Cab Station", "Beverly Blvd. Frontage / Third St. Frontage", "Hugh Evans & Co. Wilshire-Fairfax Tract Office", "Newmark's Mountain Grown Coffee used Exclusively by the Ambassador Hotel", and "Lassco [...] Hawaii".; Miracle Mile was a commercial strip on Wilshire from LaBrea to Fairfax avenues developed in 1921 by realator A.W. Ross who recognized that the automobile would decentralize downtown business.
Subject (adlf)	roadways
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Streets -- Wilshire
Subject (lcsh)	Streets Oil wells
Geographic subject (roadway)	Wilshire Boulevard; Fairfax Avenue
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1929
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1929
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	7136.1
Call number	CHS-7136.1
Microfiche number	1-12-15
Legacy record ID	chs-m426; USC-1-1-1-423
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
References	Same as CHS-7136, but the street activity has changed.
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-7136.1
Full text	mmm
Archival file	chs_Volume45/CHS-7136.1.tiff

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