View of the Lee Tower Building on the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1959

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Title View of the Lee Tower Building on the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1959

Description Photograph of a view of the Lee Tower (LT) Building on the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1959. Wilshire is at center and is a six-lane divided road. Palm trees line the medians. There are several automobiles visible, including a truck and a bus at right. Wide cement sidewalks line both sides of the street and a series of utility cables crosses overhead. Several tall, rectangular buildings, including the Lee Tower Building, can be seen along the street, in addition to many smaller structures. On the left, the Dominguez building can be seen, and behind it, the Wilshire Tower building is partly visible with the Desmond's sign on it. Behind the Lee Tower building, the Prudential building can be partly seen. Miracle Mile was a commercial strip on Wilshire from LaBrea to Fairfax avenues developed in 1921 by realtor A.W. Ross who recognized that the automobile would decentralize downtown business. Legible signs include, from left to right: "Spanish", "Discount", "Steaks", "Give Give", "Vic Tanny", "Lens", "Columbia", Keep Right", "Pruden[tial]", "Park", "LT 5455", "California Bank", "Free Parking Huddle", "They saw [?] at Citizen's National Bank", "Pharmacy", "Security First National Bank of Los Angeles", and "Miracle Mile".

Originally, the photograph was captioned as "View of the Prudential Building on the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, ca.1959".

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1959

Subject roadways (adlf), Streets (Los Angeles, Calif.) (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadways)

Temporal Subject 1959

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20863

Identifier 33457 (accession number), CHS-33457 (call number), CHS-33457 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24930 (legacy record id), chs-m20863 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24930

Unique identifier UC131041

Legacy Identifier CHS-33457.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.9 cm × 33.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

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