Wilshire Boulevard

 

 

 

© 2007 by John Varley; all rights reserved

 

 

September 3, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - Financial District, Westlake, Koreatown

We need a project, just walking around your own neighborhood, the same streets over and over, gets old pretty quick.

 
 

September 7, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - Wilshire Center to Norma Desmond

For the second day of this walk we tried the evening. It was starting to get pleasant, though you couldn’t call it cool, when we parked near the corner of Wilshire and Vermont.

  
 

September 10, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - Miracle Mile

When I lived in Oregon I’d sometimes see a bumper sticker: Don’t Californicate Oregon. I don’t think anybody with that sticker was referring to San Francisco. No, we all knew it meant Los Angeles...

  
 

September 14, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - Beverly Hills

With the exception of Palm Beach in Florida, I don’t think there’s another town in America that says “money” quite so loudly or quite so universally as Beverly Hills.

 
 

September 25, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - Country Club and Condos

We parked just down the street from the Beverly Hills “Witch’s House.” The story is that it was built in Culver City in 1921 and used in a lot of silent movies, then moved to its present location.

  
 

October 3, 2007 - Wilshire Boulevard - The Quick, the Slow, and the Dead

Sounds like a spaghetti western, right? I had expected today to be pretty boring, since I’d driven the route and knew we’d start the day going through the edge of the Military Cemetery and then the vast campus of the Veterans Administration.

  

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