"The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929

Photograph of "The Miracle Mile" of Wilshire Boulevard looking east from Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, ca.1929. The photograph shows a number of automobiles parked along Wilshire Boulevard which is lined by decorative trees and empty lots to the right and oil derricks with a few small commercial shop fronts to the left. Billboards and signs read "Wilshire Blvd. Frontage / High Class Income Property in this Vicinity / Hugh Evans & Co. Inc.", "Café La Boheme / Dining & Dancing", "Yellow Cab Station", "Beverly Blvd. Frontage / Third St. Frontage", "Hugh Evans & Co. Wilshire-Fairfax Tract Office", "Newmark's Mountain Grown Coffee used Exclusively by the Ambassador Hotel", and "Lassco [...] Hawaii".