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April 2010

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 – Competing Eras

There are too many architectural pasts out here, and two of them bump into each other down on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile, roughly the stretch of Wilshire from the big museums at Fairfax east to La Brea. In the 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard one side of the street has Spanish Colonial or Mission Revival stuff left over from the early twenties, with all sorts of lavish Churrigueresque decoration, and the other side of Wilshire has the restored and repurposed Streamline Moderne buildings from the thirties. It's Harold Lloyd and the silent comedies on one side of the street, and the Astaire-Rogers "white telephone" musicals on the other – or Fritz Lang and that Metropolis thing. This is the local Staples store –

Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Directly across the street –

Spanish Colonial, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Spanish Colonial, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Spanish Colonial, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Spanish Colonial, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Spanish Colonial, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Streamline Moderne, 5400 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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