Intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Vermont Ave., circa 1936

Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard at night on March 28, 1928. The original Brown Derby restaurant is visible on the right.

1922 aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, near Beverly Hills

Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard in 1932

Aerial view of the intersection of Wilshire & Western in 1936. The Wiltern Theater is at the bottom-right corner.

(From the USC Digital Library’s Automobile Club of Southern California Collection)

Grand opening of the Wilshire Boulevard causeway through Westlake (now MacArthur) Park, 1934.

Traffic on Wilshire Blvd. near Kenmore Ave., circa 1930. 

Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, circa 1940s.

From our Dick Whittington Collection: Wilshire Blvd. and the Wiltern Theater in 1938.

1920 aerial view, looking north, of the intersection of Wilshire Blvd (running left-right) and Fairfax Blvd (top-bottom) during an aviation fair. The area in the top-right of the photograph, near the cluster of oil wells, is today home to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the adjacent La Brea Tar Pits.