Comments on: The Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, 1948

By: Scott Mercer

Scott Mercer — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:13:45 +0000

That might be a Los Angeles Transit Lines bus, or perhaps some other operator like Motor Transit Stages. If you were standing on almost any other major boulevard at this moment in Los Angeles, you would be very likely to see a streetcar rather than a bus. Ironically, there never was streetcar service along Wilshire Boulevard, by either Pacific Electric or the Los Angeles Railway. Ironic as now there is a subway going down this “Main Street of Los Angeles,” at least to this corner, and there is talk about of extending it the remainder of the street, to the Pacific Ocean.

O to have that subway!

By: Rosalia

Rosalia — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:24:04 +0000

The Wiltern use to have this giant oblong digital clock the first of it’s kind on top of the highest point of the building. It would rotate for all to see and light up the sky with this beautiful blue and gold numbers. I would never change growing up in the Wilshire Dist. for all the OZ or yellow brick roads, of the world. Theres no place like home and fortunately for me it was Mac Arthur Park, Pacific Ocean Park, The Observatory, Mt Wilson and the Hollywood Sign, Griffith Park and all that LA had to offer us back then, I’m real grateful for having had the experiences I did. My Neighbors Japenese, Jewish, Polish, Black, Chinese and the rest.

By: Ricka White

Ricka White — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:07:34 +0000

Absolutely LOVE this. I grew up in LA in the early forties and remember this so well. Thank you!