Archiving Angeles (AA): Wilshire & Crenshaw

By

Jason Burns

– March 12, 2010Posted in: History

A subway station? Here? Such a debate would have been absurd at a sleepy little corner like Wilshire & Crenshaw.

The year was 1934.

Photo from the USC Digital Library

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Tags: archiving angeles, crenshaw, purple line, subway, wilshire

About the Author

Jason is an actor, writer, and voice over guy from Florida. He is the voice of two nationally syndicated radio shows. As one of the hosts of LAGenX Radio in Los Angeles, he gets together with another actor and a musician every week, and talks about life in and out of Hollywood. Follow @jasonburns. Read FADE IN: LA. Listen to LAGenX Radio.

3 Comments

1. WALT!

   Posted March 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM

   Ohhhh. Good one.

   That mansion behind the trees on the left would later stand in as the home of Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s 1950 Classic Sunset Blvd. Also, the Los Altos apartment building on the left, is where newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst would stay while in Los Angeles.

   Shame that those Wilshire Blvd. lanterns only still exist on a small stretch west of Alvarado.

2. Lucinda Michele

   Posted March 12, 2010 at 3:50 PM

   Wow, it’s weird to recognize the Los Altos from my present-day drives down the boulevard, and the house from the film. Good eye, Walt.

3. Thomas N

   Posted March 15, 2010 at 1:11 PM

   Not only there will be a debate, but the NIBYISM will be often be driven by racism and classism.

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