westwood at a glance

Westwood was first conceived in the 1920's and all the buildings originally followed a mediterranean theme. Today, the architectural styles of Westwood is more of a hodge-podge having collected buildings erected in the subsequent decades. Many of the old mediterranean buildings and tile work remain fortunately.

If you have visited Westwood before, the first thing you will notice is the building on the left. Today it is a sushi place called Yamato but it originally began as the office of the Janss family corporation. In this picture, it is a Bank of America.

Another view coming up on Westwood Blvd. That intersection is quite busy today but back in the day, a stop sign was all that was needed to serve traffic.

The building we all know as Peet's Coffee was originally a Ralphs! And where the Standard Gas Station once stood is now the mundane brick building that foreign students come to learn English in.

How it looks today, with that ultra modern building in the background. 

Another view coming up through Broxton Avenue. The Fox Theater looks just like how it did back then. 

A picture from the seventies when they started building tall skyscrapers along Wilshire Blvd. Notice that the medical building has not yet realized the huge monetary potential of humongous advertisements that it generously slaps onto the west facade today. 

A more modern addition that developers razed last year to build something. That something never came to be and it is now there's just a big hole in the ground.

This proposed building is planned to go where the Hollywood Video was, at the corner of Glendon and Wilshire. Hopefully we will see this building go up soon because it's beautiful.