30 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Greater Los Angeles Area
Reading Time: 8 minutesWilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica © flickr.com – inazakira/cc-by-sa-2.0
Wilshire Boulevard is a 15.83 miles (25.48 km)
boulevard in the
Los Angeles area of
Southern California, extending from
Ocean Avenue in the city of
Santa Monica east to
Grand Avenue in the
Financial District of
downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal east-west
arterial roads of Los Angeles, it is also one of the major city streets through the city of
Beverly Hills. Wilshire Boulevard runs roughly parallel with
Santa Monica Boulevard from Santa Monica to the west boundary of Beverly Hills. From the east boundary it runs a block south of Sixth Street to its terminus. The boulevard was named after
Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), a
landowner,
publisher and
socialist (only in America: A boulevard that stands for income inequality between the poor (homeless camps) and the super rich like no other in the world is named after a socialist. You can’t help but grin).
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