Bullocks Wilshire

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Summary: A book as elegent and sophisticated as the store itself.
Review: Bullocks Wilshire represented Los Angeles during the heyday of Hollywood. Ms. Davis presents a well-researched homage to this architectural wonder and social icon, which came to be the place to see and be seen by the movers and shakers, gods and godesses of the day. What could have been a great book ends on a dubious note. Ms. Davis, an Alumna of Southwestern School of Law, sounds the praises of her alma mater, which took over the building after the store's demise in 1993, turning it into a library.

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Summary: Bullocks Wilshire is a metaphor of Los Angeles
Review: Bullocks Wilshire represented Los Angeles during the heyday of Hollywood. Ms. Davis presents a well-researched homage to this architectural wonder and social icon, which came to be the place to see and be seen by the movers and shakers, gods and godesses of the day. What could have been a great book ends on a dubious note. Ms. Davis, an Alumna of Southwestern School of Law, sounds the praises of her alma mater, which took over the building after the store's demise in 1993, turning it into a library.

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Summary: A book as elegent and sophisticated as the store itself.
Review: This book can only hint however the magnificince of this Truly great department store. Very nicly done descriptions and captions of each room in the store. Gives a very vivid idea of the grandeur of each department in Bullocks. An elagantly presented book at no time is the reader board or not facinated with the history or the photographs and the variouse architectural drawings.

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Summary: The book reflects this incredible milestone of architecture.
Review: While combing through "Bullock's Wilshire", a great tome of space and imagination, I immedately felt as though I had been transformed back into history.This building reflects what's GOOD about Los Angeles and what's missing with the current batch of misappropriated, misaligned, and malcontented "plastic chic" we Angelinos replace great buildings with now. Ms. Davis gives an incredible insight into the era of the true department store. A true "good buy" for any architecture officianado.