Wilshire Boulevard
You know what's a cool concept? Curating the City. You know, curating is what museums do. They take care of the past. Merriam-Webster Dictionary claims that it also has a religious connotation, namely that a curate is a clergyman in charge of a parish.No one is in better charge of Los Angeles than the Los Angeles Conservency. The LA Conservency fights for our right to the past, largely by keeping it around. And it is they who've started a series of events they refer to as "Curating the City." Right now, their focus is on Wilshire Boulevard.
Starting this Sunday, they intend to put on a series of events celebrating what they refer to as "Califonia's Most Famous Thoroughfaire." You may think of Wilshire as a traffic-y, dingy looking way of getting from the west side to downtown, but Wilshire has lots of cool stuff, including our oft mentioned Ambassador Hotel, the Museums of Miracle Mile, the Wiltern, and perhaps most stupendously, the Bullocks Wilshire.
There's a bunch of stuff going on, including coffee and pie at Johnie's the now closed (and rented out for filming by the $.99 store next door), tours of churches, the Bullocks Wilshire, and, the oldest building on Wilshire, the Wadsworth chapel -- you know, that old Victorian building near the Veteran's hospital just after the 405. All very cool stuff! Unfortunately, though it seems most of this stuff is available on October 2nd, it remains unclear whether these sites will be open all day.
posted by kuaptic. @ 3:31 PM
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