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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
Wilshire Blvd. and Wilton Place.
1960
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BiffRayRock for the Wilshire at Wilton pix. The Wilshire Professional Building (Arthur E. Harvey, 1929) on the north side of Wilshire and the Pellissier Building (Stiles O. Clements, 1931) on the south were such a great counterpoint to each other until Claud Beelman's undistinguished Getty Oil Headquarters Building (1961) totally skewed the scale of this section of Wilshire and almost completely blocked the view of the Pellissier from the west.
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The twenty-three-story Getty Oil Headquarters/Mercury Insurance Building (3800 Wilshire at Western), flanked in the view above by the 13-story Wilshire Professional Building on the left and the 12-story Pellissier/Wiltern Building on the right.
Too bad the architect of the Eastern Columbia Building ended up wrecking such havoc on our other favorite green building.