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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
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The flower stand was between 4016 Wilshire and what was once known as the "unicorn" on NLA--otherwise, the Streamline Moderne 4032 Wilshire (just recently discussed
here)...which, ever shy, is hiding behind the flower shop (addressed 4026 Wilshire) and "Burgie" billboard. ("Burgie" was the nickname for Burgermeister beer, brewed by Hamm's.)
Below is the flower shop from a different angle and before the Wilshire Specials were replaced. 4016 Wilshire at left still stands. (See its history
here; 4032's is
here.) The driveway at right in the shot below looks fairly new--its crosshatching matches the concrete in the later shot of the Streamline 4032, built 1936.
The building with the I.W. Harper billboard on top in the USC shot is the 1948 Wilshire Medical Center (see bottom shot here) built on the site of 4036 Wilshire (a house whose origins remain elusive, although it was one home and shop of actress/beautician/lousy plastic surgeon/countess
Irehne Hobson, seen on NLA recently). By 1960, the unicorn at 4032 didn't have long to live--the next year, there was a new 4032, which still stands, as seen below. The Wilshire Medical Center next door has come and gone, but the 1961 4032 and, amazingly, 4016 remain.
The 1948 Wilshire Medical Center at 4036 has come and gone--note the house at right in this architect's rendering. It's the Woolwine house at 4040 Wilshire, whose story (in progress) is
here.
