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Bullocks Wilshire, the Glossary

Bullocks Wilshire, located at 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, is a Art Deco building.^[1]

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Bullock's
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
Defunct department stores based in the City of Los Angeles
John and Donald Parkinson buildings
Macy's
Towers in California
Wilshire Boulevard

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. Bullocks Wilshire and Academy Awards are 1929 establishments in California.

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Adaptive reuse

Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British and American actress.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Atelier

An atelier is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts or an architect, where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision.

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Bonwit Teller

Bonwit Teller & Co. was an American luxury department store in New York City, New York, founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street, and later a chain of department stores.

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Boutique

A boutique is a retail shop that deals in high end fashionable clothing or accessories.

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Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.

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Bullock's

Bullock's was a chain of full-line department stores from 1907 through 1995, headquartered in Los Angeles, growing to operate across California, Arizona and Nevada. Bullocks Wilshire and Bullock's are defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles, history of Los Angeles and Macy's.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Campeau Corporation

Campeau Corporation was a Canadian real estate development and investment company founded by entrepreneur Robert Campeau.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Chanel

Chanel is a luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901November 16, 1960) was an American film actor.

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Cork (material)

Cork is an impermeable buoyant material.

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Costume design

Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer.

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Department store

A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles. Bullocks Wilshire and Downtown Los Angeles are history of Los Angeles.

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Escalator

An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure.

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Fashion Island

Fashion Island is an outdoor regional shopping mall in Newport Beach, California.

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Fashion show

A fashion show (French défilé de mode) is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories during a fashion week.

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Film studio

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films.

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First lady

First lady or first gentleman is an unofficial title usually used for the spouse, and occasionally used for the offspring or other relative, of a non-monarchical head of state or chief executive.

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George Stanley (sculptor)

George Maitland Stanley (April 26, 1903 – May 11, 1970) was an American sculptor.

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Gittings Studios

Gittings Studios is a photographic studio founded in 1928 by Paul Gittings, Sr..

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress and a premier star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras.

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Gun metal, also known as red brass in the United States, is a type of bronze – an alloy of copper, tin, and zinc.

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Haute couture

Haute couture (French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design.

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Herman Sachs

Herman Sachs (Hermann Sachs, originally Segall) (1883–1940) was an artist and art educator, based in Los Angeles, and active in Germany and the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

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Hors d'oeuvre

An hors d'oeuvre (hors-d'œuvre), appetiser or starter is a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine.

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I. Magnin

I. Bullocks Wilshire and I. Magnin are Bullock's and Macy's.

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Interior design

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space.

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Irene (costume designer)

Irene Maud Lentz (December 8, 1901 – November 15, 1962),"Irene", in Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases, by David K. Frasier (McFarland, 2005) pp.

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? was an American actress.

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John and Donald Parkinson

John and Donald Parkinson were a father-and-son architectural firm operating in the Los Angeles area in the early 20th century. Bullocks Wilshire and John and Donald Parkinson are John and Donald Parkinson buildings.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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La Jolla

La Jolla is a hilly, seaside neighborhood within the city of San Diego, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean.

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La Jolla Village Square

La Jolla Village Square is a retail power center with a collection of mostly big box retailers.

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List of defunct department stores of the United States

This is a list of defunct department stores of the United States, from small-town one-unit stores to mega-chains, which have disappeared over the past 100 years.

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List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas

This is a list of the Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire, Westlake and nearby areas of Los Angeles, California. Bullocks Wilshire and list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas are history of Los Angeles.

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Livery

A livery is an identifying design, such as a uniform, ornament, symbol or insignia that designates ownership or affiliation, often found on an individual or vehicle.

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Lobby (room)

A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Macy's

Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy.

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Macy's, Inc.

Macy's, Inc. (previously Federated Department Stores, Inc.) is an American holding company of department stores.

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Mae West

Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned over seven decades.

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Mannequin

A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Mezzanine

A mezzanine (or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Los Angeles. Bullocks Wilshire and National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles are history of Los Angeles.

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Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach is a coastal city of about 85,000 in southern Orange County, California, United States.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nordstrom

Nordstrom, Inc. is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901.

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Palm Desert, California

Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, about east of Palm Springs, northeast of San Diego and east of Los Angeles.

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Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.

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Palos Verdes Peninsula

The Palos Verdes Peninsula (Palos Verdes, Spanish for "Green Sticks ") is a peninsula and sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Pat Nixon

Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon.

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Porte-cochère

A porte-cochère is a doorway to a building or courtyard, "often very grand," through which vehicles can enter from the street or a covered porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which originally a horse and carriage and today a motor vehicle can pass to provide arriving and departing occupants protection from the elements.

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Promenade on the Peninsula

Promenade on the Peninsula is the current name of originally enclosed, now open-air regional shopping mall in Rolling Hills Estates on the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula in the South Bay area of Greater Los Angeles.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Rolling Hills Estates, California

Rolling Hills Estates is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Rosewood

Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Southwestern Law School

Southwestern Law School is a private law school in Los Angeles, California. Bullocks Wilshire and Southwestern Law School are art Deco architecture in California.

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Teahouse

A teahouse or tearoom (also tea room) is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments.

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The Promenade (formerly known as Westfield Promenade) is a dead shopping mall in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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The Shops at Palm Desert

The Shops at Palm Desert (previously Westfield Palm Desert) is a shopping mall located in Palm Desert, California which serves the Coachella Valley.

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Travertine

Travertine is a form of terrestrial limestone deposited around mineral springs, especially hot springs.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Valet

A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer.

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Vault (architecture)

In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Watts Towers

The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States. Bullocks Wilshire and Watts Towers are history of Los Angeles, los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments and towers in California.

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Westside (Los Angeles County)

The Los Angeles Westside is an urban region in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard is a prominent boulevard in the Los Angeles area of Southern California, extending from Ocean Avenue in the city of Santa Monica east to Grand Avenue in the Financial District of downtown Los Angeles.

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Women's Wear Daily

Women's Wear Daily (also known as WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal often referred to as the "Bible of fashion".

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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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ZaSu Pitts

ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, starred in many silent film dramas, such as Erich von Stroheim's 1924 epic Greed, and comedies, before transitioning successfully to mostly comedy roles with the advent of sound films.

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1992 Los Angeles riots

The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Bullocks Wilshire and 1992 Los Angeles riots are history of Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullocks_Wilshire

Also known as Bullock's Wilshire, Bullock's Wilshire Building.

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See also

Bullock's

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles

Defunct department stores based in the City of Los Angeles

John and Donald Parkinson buildings

Macy's

Towers in California

Wilshire Boulevard

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