PCAD - Westwood Village Master Plan #1, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

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As Richard Longstreth has noted, the Westwood Village development was announced to the public in 12/1927, and construction began 04/1928 and continued throughout the 1930s. By the late 1930s, Westwood Village became one of the healthiest and most chic shopping districts in Los Angeles, and a key spot for movie premiers.

Planned for the Janss Corporation by Harlan Bartholomew, City Planner of Saint Louis, MO, and L.D. Tilton of Santa Barbara, CA;

PCAD id: 1262

Publications

Allen, Patricia A., Janss, a Brief History, 6-9, 1978. Longstreth, Richard, "The Diffusion of the Community Shopping Center Concept during the Interwar Decades", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 56: 3, 273-274, 09/1997. Longstreth, Richard, "The Diffusion of the Community Shopping Center Concept during the Interwar Decades", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 56: 3, 273-274, 09/1997. DeBoer S.R., Shopping Districts, 34, 1937.