{"id":6636,"date":"2012-02-20T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:19:22","slug":"price-points-old-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/price-points-old-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Points: Old L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Los Angeles, and back in a few weeks with a continuation of the Burnaby town-centre series.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here&#8217;s a shot of Old L.A.\u00a0 That means the early Thirties.\u00a0\u00a0But where?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/price-points-old-l-a\/brown-derby\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6637\" title=\"Brown Derby\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Brown-Derby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/pricepoints-feature-VAN.gif \" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most Los Angelenos can probably figure out\u00a0where this shot was\u00a0taken\u00a0(thank you, L.A. Library).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking east on Wilshire Blvd. with the Brown Derby Restaurant prior to the derby-shaped building, the St. James Church, and the Wilshire Professional Building in 1931. Storefronts were built in 1929.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But there&#8217;s something intriguing about it, I find &#8211; a particularly contemporary aspect in at least one respect.\u00a0 What do you think that might be?\u00a0 (Comments welcome until I&#8217;m back to tell you.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->Here&#8217;s what that scene looks like today (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=St,+James+Church++Wilshire+la&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=34.061652,-118.312341&amp;spn=0.000002,0.000469&amp;hq=St,+James+Church++Wilshire+la&amp;radius=15000&amp;t=h&amp;z=21&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=34.061652,-118.312341&amp;panoid=qKeYuIPO1q7tc5v4G_2mnw&amp;cbp=12,38.64,,0,-8.82\" target=\"_blank\">map here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/price-points-old-l-a\/brown-derby-today-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6641\" title=\"Brown Derby today\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Brown-Derby-today1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Los Angeles, and back in a few weeks with a continuation of the Burnaby town-centre series. 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Looking east on Wilshire Blvd. with<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/price-points-old-l-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Price Points: Old L.A.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[7221,7220,299,7222,7219],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-brown-derby-restaurant","tag-l-a-library","tag-price-points","tag-st-james-church","tag-wilshire-professional-building"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Price Points: Old L.A.  - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/price-points-old-l-a\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Price Points: Old L.A.  - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m off to Los Angeles, and back in a few weeks with a continuation of the Burnaby town-centre series. 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