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Father and creator of Miracle Mile is innovative A.W. Ross

Nona Sue Friedman · March 3, 2025

If you blink you’ll miss the bust of A.W. Ross at 5799 Wilshire Blvd., located in a grassy little triangle facing the stretch of boulevard he created, Miracle Mile. Without him, who knows what would have happened to Wilshire. It was 1920. The heart of Los Angeles was Downtown. Streetcars were the primary form of […]

Reindeers, Carnation soda shop and other Miracle Mile memories

Guest · October 3, 2013

Toby Horn, who grew up in the Miracle Mile, shared her early recollections. Carnation had the best chocolate chip ice cream in the whole world. Tiny flecks of chocolate that melted into the vanilla ice cream. The soda shop was the stopover on the way home from school, too. And if the moon was in […]

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