A walk down Wilshire

We walked to Western Avenue along Wilshire, LA's grand boulevard, starting out in Westlake,

to the other side of Macarthur Park;

passing past deja-vus of Australia;

and grand old buildings along the way

(with more grandeur in the distance).

Some old buildings - thank God - have new uses (Bullocks Wilshire department store now the Southwestern Law School),

but some have been demolished and all that remains is a vague tribute to the building footprint, a poster on a lamp-post,

or old direction to the carpark.

Yes, tragedy struck here, as the poster above says, Senator Robert Kennedy shot on the night of the California Primary, in 1968. Schoenberg's Kol nidre was premiered here too, in 1938, in the Coconut Grove nightclub.


In some places, the charm is provided by 1960s architecture

or echoes of what was there before.

On the site of the old Wilshire Colonnade

At least we can be be grateful that in this movie town, many old cinemas remain standing (if not showing films).