I found this last month on ebay.
1950s
the same view today
GSV
The vintage photo didn't line up until I realized there are
two Saks Fifth Avenue stores on Wilshire.
(three, if you want to count the one story annex that displaced the shops in the 1950s photograph).
Here's the one east of Bedford Drive,
GSV
and here's the one west of Bedford Drive.
GSV
I took this photograph back in the early 1980s.
photo by me
and here's the view today (my, how those palms have grown!)
SW corner of Wilshire and Peck Dr.
GSW
One last look at the lost shops.