Bullocks Wilshire
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Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a 230,000-square-foot Art Deco building. The building opened in September 1929 as a luxury department store for own
Bullocks Wilshire looking east
Bullocks Wilshire, c. 1936
Bullocks Wilshire from the northeast.
Lobby elevator door
Watts Towers
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The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the
Bullocks Wilshire
…entrance, was designed by George Stanley, designer of the Oscar. Among the workers laboring on the project may have been Sam Rodia, builder of the Watts Towers. Bullocks Wilshire's innovation was that it was one of the first department stores in Los Angeles to cater to the burgeoning automobile culture. It was…
Watts Towers
Doorway detail
Wall detail, with mosaic
An explanation of how the Watts Towers are maintained