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Stomping the Parks District

All the locations [on this website] from Westlake and LaFayette Parks were my pre-teen stomping grounds from 1927 until ...

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Memories of Douglas Park

When I was a child, my mother used to take me frequently to Douglas Park. Douglas Park was one of my favorite places to ...

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Piranhas of Douglas Park

When I was a child in the late 1980s, this was the BEST park to play in. The ponds provided hours of entertainment and e...

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I Remember

I remember the back view of the chapel at the hospital of the Good Samaritan. My late sister was in training for her R.N...

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I Remember

I remember Wilshire Center, the Westlake area, Westlake Theatre, various religious facilities along Wilshire Blvd. Lampp...

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Director of Engineering

As a maintenance engineer at the Town House from 1970 to 1974, we survived the Sylmar earthquake on Feb. 9, 1971, watchi...

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B Movies at the Wiltern

Favorite memories include Ambassador Hotel, Wiltern Theatre, Southwestern Law School (Bullocks Wilshire), neon signs on ...

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Equitable Plaza

I’ve been working in an office at the Equitable Plaza since 1995. (Before that, our office was at Museum Square, f...

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The First Couple

I was told that my grandparents were the first couple to be married at the Wilshire Blvd. Temple, on Sept. 28, 1930. We...

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Tea at Bullocks Wilshire

I remember the old Bullocks Wilshire -– just east of Vermont. As a fourth generation Californian and native Angeleno &...

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Modelling at Bullocks

In the 1960s, the Assistance League of Southern California (the oldest non-public charity organization in the city) held...

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I Remember

I remember Bullocks Wilshire — taking my girls when they were small for lunch in the tea room. Buying shoes for my...