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Sterling Plaza

The Parkinsons' wedding-cake design for California Bank introduced some Art Deco playfulness to the then-sedate stretch of Wilshire through Beverly Hills.

The building opened the same year as the Parkinsons' Art Deco masterpiece, Bullock's Wilshire, to the east in Wilshire Center.

Gallery: 
Tom Zimmerman Collection
Aerial showing California Bank Tower next to the Beverly Theatre, 1940s.

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