One stretch of Wilshire that never seemed to get the glamour treatment was a few blocks of old Orange St near downtown. A great many turn-of-the-20th-century frame houses, re-purposed as businesses, still existed until relatively recently. One pretty 1901 survivor is still hanging in at #1314 (at Witmer), the front yard long-since lost to street widening (below). Three or four others on this block have been given new facades.
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