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Old Posted Jun 26, 2012, 1:44 AM
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Looking southwest towards the Bullock's Wilshire department store, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard. Designed by John and Donald Parkinson and built in 1929, the department store became the library for the Southwestern Law School in the mid-1990s.
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Exterior view of the Bullock's Wilshire department store, showing the bas-relief panel designed by Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley above the main entrance; it reads, "To build a business that will never know completion."
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Architectural element at the Bullock's Wilshire department store, showing a dressage motif.
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Iron gate from the porte-cochère found on the eastern side of Bullock's Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard. During the store's heyday, this is where customers would enter to meet valet staff to drop off their cars.
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The "Spirit of Transportation" mural by Herman Sachs located on the ceiling of the porte-cochère found on the eastern side of Bullock's Wilshire; this view shows the section of the mural which includes the god Mercury.
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Rear exterior view of the Bullock's Wilshire department store.
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Did not the Parkinson's hire the team of Julia Morgan and Annita Delano as the design team ? Actually these two women completely revolutionized department stores with their awesome ArtDeco treatment for the entire next decade-- I recently read up on Mme Delano as I almost received her watercolors of Hildreth mansion and Phineas Banning's Fort Moore place-that is until they went along with all else in a male couple's estate sale near the Chateau Marmot ...
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