#Wilshire Blvd

[oldshowbiz]

Streamline Moderne along the Miracle Mile. Demolished in 1980.

[nicholask-la]

From November, 2022

[westside-historic]

Where was off the record, used album store? I remember most everything else, music odyssey, horizons west, etc. I just can’t place Off The Record. Help!

I grew up about two blocks away from Off the Record, and it was my favorite record store!

Off the Record was located at 2621 Wilshire Blvd, near the intersection of 26th in Santa Monica. They were the first record store I knew of that sold used albums and cassettes, but they sold new records as well. Used albums were typically $2-$5, and they graded them EX, VG, G, F, so you knew what you were getting.

I bought so many used LPs there, many of which I still own. They sold Richard Pryor albums to an eleven-year old me, which was really hip of them at the time. They also sold bootleg live albums, and I still have at least one double live Led Zeppelin boot I purchased there around 1980.

This really tiny, crappy ad is the only thing I could find on the interwebs:

By the way, we're all friends here! Dont be anonymous! Be onymous!

[joeygallagher]

Malibu / Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA (2023)

35mm Film

[archiveofaffinities]

Ed Ruscha, Wilshire Blvd., 1965

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE CLASSIC ART DECO FURNISHINGS, STYLINGS, & MAJESTIES OF HISTORIC LOS ANGELES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on classic Art Deco architecture, the Bullocks Wilshire building, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, designed by John and Donald Parkinson.

EXTRA INFO: 1929 Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in L.A., is a 230,000-square-foot Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for owner John G. Bullock. 📸: Jeroen Tacx.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3420540844022910781.

[helena-bottom-farter]

[dionysus-complex]

saw Built to Spill last night!

[focusgroupentertainment]

Chioke Plastic Surgery or Natural Glow-Up?

Chioke Dmachi has been turning heads with his forever-young glow, and fans are dying to know the secret behind his flawless look. Could it be that he’s had a little help from Beverly Hills’ top surgeons? If you’ve been paying attention, Chioke has been making frequent visits to 9100 Wilshire Blvd., a spot known for its top-tier cosmetic dentists and hair specialists, and it’s starting to raise…

[thingsiwishihadknownsooner]

"How This Building Connects the Internet"

[oldshowbiz]

The Los Angeles hippies who lived in domed mansions.

[nicholask-la]

From January, 2023

[westside-historic]

A&W's corporate headquarters was in Santa Monica for a while in the late '60s/early '70s.

[joeygallagher]

GRECSvsWILSHIRE 

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Jim Greco - Los Angeles, CA  (1999-2000)

Filmed & Edited by J. Strickland 

[apdreadful]

Since the election I have deactivated some of my social media. Blocked some people I never should have ever engaged with to begin with, and unfollowed several accounts on IG that just don’t bring me joy.

And 911onabc was one.

Is it because Buck & Tommy didn’t end together? No. I’m a grown ass adult. I can be irritated by the something and not be dramatic or hateful about it.

It was because several storylines lately have been complete bullshit.

They start strong with solid good storytelling. But then..eh we’re bored. Only whatever we do absolutely can not make sense!

The lazy fucking way they wrote Christopher’s character out, and that weird ass doppelgänger storyline.

New season? Let’s start by putting Bobby and Athena through to some major disaster! Hey it worked last season! Let’s do it again! (Do not even get me started on that fucking drug cartel shit..what the hell even was that??)

We are only allowed to have one character or couple drama free at a time. And if we can’t come up with a plausible way to create discord or havoc, we’ll just do some stupid shit instead!

Spend several seasons showing the deep strong bond between Eddie and Christopher. Gavin’s family moves? Just make it something dumb..but fast! I know let’s have him get mad at his dad and ask to move in with his grandparents!! Never mind he’d never do that!

The amount of psychological trauma they have inflicted on Maddie. The near death experiences of Chimney. Jesus. Just what tf?

Hmmm. Karen and Hen..the fans would revolt if we broke them up. So let’s go after their kids!! And we can’t make it about them being gay! Let’s create this over the top villain Councilwoman Ortiz. Who’s the mother of that drunk coked up dude from the accident. Only we absolutely cannot have Hen or anyone defend what happened or shut that shit down by saying “Your son was a fucking menace and maybe if you hadn’t kept covering for him he would have gotten some fucking help and not caused an accident.” Also do not mention Hen was cleared of all wrong doing. Nope. Logic has no place here!

Ok so the fans have been clamoring for Buddie. But Eddie Diaz is straight. Period.

So hey! Let’s make Buck bisexual. And tell everyone we are getting him off the hamster wheel (because really, we’ve given him the emotional depth of a teaspoon for a while now)..And his love interest/boyfriend should be Tommy Kinard, who used to work at the 118, and we will invest time to give him a compelling backstory, and lay a ton of Easter eggs showing how richly we can mine this pairing and these characters.

And make them HAPPY for several episodes. Blissfully in love. And then totally out of the blue, let’s break them up. But the reason has to be complete bullshit, totally against character out of left field BULLSHIT. Like they should start out the episode great and about 80 percent in..wait! Let’s also make him the SAME Tommy Abbie from season one was engaged to before she started banging Buck! And then let’s make Tommy who is so into Buck it’s palpable, dump him because he’s afraid of getting his heart broken! Even though it’s one of the most tired, overdone, stupid tropes ever!!

Yeah. I don’t know WTF is going on in the writers room I would swear it’s like there’s this talented group of writers who start stories, and then they go out in Wilshire Blvd and ask some random person on the street to write the ending, but they have to do it, right there in the next 20 minutes.

No I am not going to stop watching 911 forever. I just don’t really want to see them on my IG. This last stunt, sparked only incredulity and scorn.

[artdecodude]

#TerrazzoTuesday part of the entrance to El Rey Theater on Wilshire Blvd . 📸:me/2021