19 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Architecture, Greater Los Angeles Area
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McDonalds in Saugus, Massachusetts © Anthony92931/cc-by-sa-3.0
Googie architecture is a type of
futurist architecture influenced by
car culture,
jets, the
Atomic Age and the
Space Age. It originated in
Southern California from the
Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the United States from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s.
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30 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Greater Los Angeles Area
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Wilshire 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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