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his crusade to run MacArthur for president knew it was even up for discussion. For many decades after, long-time residents many decades after, political operative in City Hall pushed the park is still officially the Westlake District. park is still officially the Westlake against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hearst’s against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hearst’s change through before the neighborhood clung to the old name. The area around the

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Westlake Park. Westlake MacArthur Park Second led to the placement of unusual led to the placement of unusual located where Wilshire Boule- main boulevard needed to detour around surrounding rooftops. By then the park had sculptures across the acreage. is a fine example of the works revival of interest in the park in the 1980s others were installed during a the center of an artist district the center of an artist district that included relighting of neon signs on been split in two by the curving Wilshire ect years of the Depression. Many as a traffic relief measure. Until then, added during the Federal Art Proj- Boulevard viaduct, which opened in 1934 cars and buses traveling on the city’s cars and buses traveling on the city’s Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth, vard enters the park from the east, Westlake Park’s presence at presence Park’s Westlake Fountain in Westlake Park, c. 1890s. in Westlake Park, Fountain

/ . . LIBRARY PUBLIC ANGELES LOS ARCHIVES A L OF SHADES OF COURTESY PHOTO Wilshire Boulevard cutting Wilshire Boulevard cutting now through Westlake Park, c. 1930s. MacArthur Park,

lake School located for muralist Anthony Heinsbergen can still be many years seats for plays and first- ing the park.) run movies and a brilliant rooftop sign. Ceiling artwork by renowned neighborhood and filled dents. (The on Alvarado park with stu- toric-cultural landmark, glimpsed inside the converted theater. the area around the elite West- atre at Alvarado and Wilshire, a city his- featured nearly 2,000 first somewhat Bohemian for Girls was Street fac- West Coast West The- Westlake The 1926

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Bohemian Neighborhood such as John and Donald Parkinson and District, and several styles to the Westlake of their buildings survive. Art schools such professional offices and design studios Boaters at Westlake Park (MacArthur Park), c. 1930. c. (MacArthur Park), Boaters at Westlake Park as the Otis Art Institute, the Chouinard Art formed. Leading Los Angeles architects Institute and Art Center created the city’s Institute and Art Center created the city’s Stiles O. Clements introduced a variety of Around the park a lively district of hotels, West Coast Westlake Theatre, 1937. West Coast Westlake Theatre,

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lake Park,” a 1920s lic retreat from the life. It also attracted stresses of urban park became an idyl- the colorful array of preachers, sybarites the city was known “A vast to gather. tic lore was to be had and eccentrics that amount of therapeu- for nothing in West-

Angeles grew, the Angeles grew,

Westlake Park boathouse, 1896. Westlake Park

/ LIBRARY PUBLIC ANGELES LOS COLLECTION PACIFIC SECURITY OF COURTESY PHOTO NC. tried all cures.” experienced all ailments, (213) 922-6000. rendezvous…seem to have made this pleasance their daily Mississippi watershed, who had women, hailing chiefly from the novel said. “The elderly men and of the annual Fiesta de Los Angeles would be ferried across the lake in a regatta of elaborately decorated gondolas. As Los Westlake Park was also where the queen Westlake PARK Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west 7th Street looking north from Open-air streetcar with its trailer and two operators on west 7th Street looking north from Alvarado Street, c. 1890. Project Team: Project Deanna Molloy, Executive Director, Diego Nunez, Director of Operations, LA Angels Walk Rogerio Carvalheiro, Stanchion Designer LA Angels Walk Writer Kevin Roderick, John Molloy, Planning Consultant Lane+Lane Design Office, Graphics Map: Cartifact Acknowledgements: LTD PolisBuilders Patsaouras, Nick Bill Robertson, Director, Bureau of Street Services Children preparing to sail model boats on the lake in Westlake Park. LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL MUST BE GRANTED IN WRITING BY ANGELS WALK LA, I BE GRANTED IN WRITING MUST REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL RESERVED. PERMISSION TO LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS ® works launched over the water. works launched over the water. lake. Every year on July 4, crowds came late in the 19th century. Then late in the 19th century. limits, separated from the town center by show the park in Victorian regalia, with show the park in Victorian miles of mustard grass and wheat fields, spot. The lake is well provided once a week.” The park marked by carriage and street car to watch fire- pond began to enchant visitors pond began to enchant visitors that it was “a pretty, breezy that it was “a pretty, patronized, and a band plays the western edge of the Los Angeles city trees transformed the city had obtained George S. Patton. MacArthur Park and its scenic MacArthur Park and its scenic Crown Hill. Beyond to the Pacific lay 14 and crumbling ran- an alkali mud hole and trash dump that formally dressed families enjoying the walking paths and gardens that circled the wild barrancas work and the culti- from the father of with boats, which are liberally Postcards from the turn of the century called Westlake Park, the Los called Westlake cho adobes. Hard Westlake Park First vation of flowers and World War II General War World observed in 1891 Angeles Times COPYRIGHT ©2007 BY ANGELS WALK COPYRIGHT Special Thanks to: Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa City Council of the City of Los Angeles Councilmember Ed Reyes Eric Garcetti, President Jr. Councilmember Herb J. Wesson, Wilshire Center Business Improvement Corporation (WCBIC) Supported by: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services Los Angeles Department of Transportation Authority Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation or for a copy of the Map/Guidebook, more information about Angels Walk Office at Information For Public please contact the MTA

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LAW malls in the 1970s and Julian C. Dixon the first department store in the country to OF 5 ‘80s. After briefly being Courtroom and SCHOOL Lafayette Park be designed as an opulent art piece, filled The Bullock’s Wilshire building renamed I. Magnin, and Advocacy Center, with elegant sculptures and fine touches, UNIVERSITY under construction, 1929. Looking south on Broadway from 6th Street its terra cotta exterior adorned with copper suffering riot damage, the and the 86,000 sq. ft. with Bullock’s in the background.

6 SOUTHWESTERN Southwestern Law School OF spandrels and lush verdigris. The topper National Register of Historic Places land- Leigh H. Taylor Law COURTESY was a 241-foot-tall tower, lit at night with mark closed its doors on April 13, 1993. Library, named for the dean who oversaw PHOTO 7 Wilshire Galleria violet beacons, that soared above the city The porte cochere (motor court entrance), circa 1929. the restoration and transformation of the and shouted that the future had arrived on From Lady Shoppers landmark. Above the store’s former front LIBRARY Wilshire Boulevard. under a porte cochere where uniformed door on Wilshire, the bas relief with the PUBLIC 8 The Talmadge valets welcomed patrons and parked their to Law Students inscription “To Build a Business That Will ANGELES

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10 Chapman Market grille to mirror hinge, has been creatively modern symbols of mobility: an ocean toration. The school earned a National ST S GRAMERCY PL evoked from the future and not from the PHOTO N liner, locomotive, airliner and the famous Aerial view of department store Bullock’s Wilshire looking west. Preservation Award from the National S SAINT ANDREWS PL ANGELS WALK

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attention from coiffed sales asso- dral of commerce,” was inspired by the S KINGSLEY DR 3 The Bryson old downtown, ANGELES beauty of Bull- LOS 13 Wilshire Boulevard Temple ciates whose ranks included future / 1925 L’Exposition Internationale des Arts S ARDMORE AVE where shoppers IROLO ST ock’s Wilshire. 4 Felipe de Neve Branch Library S NORMANDIE AVE

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rode Pacific Electric trolleys First Lady Patricia Nixon and young Decoratifs et Industrials Modernes in Paris. S NORMANDIE AVE The old store S MARIPOSA AVE EXAMINER 5 Lafayette Park actresses-to-be Angela Lansbury and 11 and negotiated crowded now forms the S ALEXANDRIA AVE 14 10 HERALD 9

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up around Bullock’s Wilshire, attracting 15 Wiltern Theatre was nothing conventional ion show or luncheon in the penthouse Several groups of people are seen enjoying a sunny day atop the Bullock’s 8 S NEW HAMPSH IRE AVE CENTER roof garden. clientele from all of Los Angeles. Cannell 7 Tea Room, get their hair done, and then Bullock’s Wilshire drinking fountain, 1929. 8 The Talmadge about Bullock’s Wilshire. SEAVER N VERMONT AVE

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Traffic at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue looking OF address in fast-growing Los Angeles. Angeles Conservancy east, 1931. COURTESY 7 joined with city leaders to delay demoli- It was an overly hopeful notion, but it LIBRARY Wilshire Galleria PHOTO PUBLIC nonetheless changed the way people thousands of people a year and migrating tion and have the Pellissier Tower listed Wilshire looking east, 1948. ANGELES on the National Register of Historic Places.

looked into the future. west along Wilshire Boulevard. To fulfill its LOS 8 / The Talmadge role as the grand concourse of the future, Brenda Levin. The theatre, known now as COLLECTION Henry de Roulet didn’t need a traffic count PACIFIC

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on the southeast corner of Wilshire and would exemplify the era’s optimism. PHOTO Warner Bros. Western Theatre at the time of its opening in 1931.

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