Wilshire Center, Los Angeles, California
| Wilshire Center | |
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| Neighborhood of Los Angeles | |
Wilshire Center signage located at the intersection of
Wilshire Boulevard and Hoover Street |
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 Wilshire Center
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| Coordinates: 34°03′34″N 118°17′55″W / 34.059415°N 118.29855°WCoordinates: 34°03′34″N 118°17′55″W / 34.059415°N 118.29855°W | |
| Country |
 United States of America
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| State |
 California
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| County |
 Los Angeles
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| Time zone | Pacific |
| Zip Code | 90006 |
| Area code(s) | 213 |
Wilshire Center is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.
As defined by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning's Wilshire Community Plan, adopted September 19, 2001, Wilshire Center is a "Regional Commercial Center...generally bounded by 3rd Street on the north, 8th Street on the south, Hoover Street on the east, and Wilton Place on the west”.
Services provided by the business improvement district are limited to commerical the area between Wilton Place, Hoover Street, Third Street and Eighth Street.
Google Maps defines Wilshire Center with the same boundaries that the City of Los Angeles uses: Third Street on the North, Eighth Street on the South, Hoover Street on the East and Wilton Place on the West, .
Wilshire Center is served by city buses, including several Rapid lines, and three subway stations along Wilshire Boulevard. The Metro Purple Line, which begins at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, has stations at Vermont, Normandie and Western Avenues, where it terminates (an extension of the Purple Line subway along Wilshire blvd to Westwood/UCLA has been approved and is scheduled to be completed in stages thru 2020) The Vermont station is also a stop on the Metro Red Line, which continues north through Hollywood to North Hollywood.
Wilshire Boulevard is named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire—a millionaire who in 1895 began developing a 35-acre (140,000 m2) parcel stretching westward from Westlake Park (MacArthur Park) for an elite residential subdivision. A socialist, Wilshire donated to the city a strip of land for a boulevard on the conditions that it would be named for him and ban public transit, railroad lines, and commercial or industrial trucking and freight trains.
A Los Angeles Times overview of the area referred to "the corridor's former glory as a haven for blue-chip corporations and fine shopping."
In the early 1900s, steam-driven motorcars started sharing Wilshire Boulevard with horse-drawn carriages. At the turn of the century, Germain Pellissier raised sheep and barley between Normandie and Western Avenues. Reuben Schmidt purchased land east of Normandie for his dairy farm.
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