The Saban Building, formerly the May Company Building, on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, is a celebrated example of Streamline Moderne architecture. The building's architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., also designed the Million Dollar Theater and Los Angeles City Hall. The May Company Building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The building was operated as a May Company department store from 1939 until the store's closure in 1992, when May merged with J. W. Robinson's to form Robinsons-May. The building has been the home of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures since 2021.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' Saban Building in 2021
LACMA West, early 2000s
May Company Wilshire, 1970s
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California.
Miracle Mile Neighborhood sign located at the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard & Hauser Boulevard
Postcard, circa 1930 to 1945
The 1939 Streamline Moderne May Company Building marks the western border of the Miracle Mile and "Museum Row".
1930s/1940s