Courtesy Security Pacific Collection / Los Angeles Public Library Wilshire Boulevard got its name from a flamboyant character named Henry Gaylord Wilshire. An Ohio transplant who went by his middle name, Wilshire was considered a “millionaire socialist.”  Gaylord Wilshire had many pursuits in his lifetime. At one time or another, he was a land speculator, an advertising billboard […]

Taking the Wilshire Boulevard Tour [in 2005] was as if I strolled along Memory Lane. I was school girl in 1927 when my family moved back to Los Angeles. Yes, that was a while ago; but I remember our living in an apartment a couple blocks from the Bryson and Arcady on Rampart. Both Westlake […]