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Identifier	clloy_190
Title	Westwood Village, California
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	1940
Subject (Topic)	Shopping centers--California--Los Angeles; Stores, Retail--California--Los Angeles; Streets--California--Los Angeles;
Subject (Place)	Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.); Westwood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Collection Identifier	http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9489r2nz
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Publisher	Western Publishing & Novelty Co.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Calif.
Language	eng
Description	A view looking north along Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The meridian is planted with palm trees. Businesses along the street include Cut Rate Drugs, a Standard Supreme (Chevron) gas station, Sears, and the Bank of America.
Historical Background	Westwood is a district 13 miles west of downtown Los Angeles, and includes the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a residential neighborhood, and Westwood Village, a shopping district. Clustered around its central thoroughfare of Westwood Boulevard, the shopping district serves the affluent neighborhoods of Bel Air and Westwood to the north, as well as students from UCLA. Developed in the 1920s, the area was designed in a Spanish Revival style with eye-catching towers on white buildings and red tile roofs. Landmarks include the Mann Village theater (formerly called the Fox Theater), located at the corner of Broxton and Weyburn Avenues, and easily identifiable by its 170-foot tower over the entrance. Built in 1931, it remains a popular location for movie premieres. The Janss Headquarters building, completed in 1929, features a large domed ceiling over an octagonal base, with large arched windows. The Ralphs Grocery Store building at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Lindbrook Ave was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Additional Printed Matter	On back: "Westwood Village is ultra-modern, different in every respect, in a land of unusual communities. Smart shops, intimate restaurants, outdoor skating rink and the college atmosphere, all lend to make Westwood one of the most unusual and picturesque of California's newer cities."
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: 0B-H2592; Series number: 864
Additional Notes	Date from publisher's serial number; Printed using the C.T. Art-Colortone process; Printed on linen textured paper.
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu
Source	Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection