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    Design and Architecture

    Lynell George on Wilshire Boulevard

    In the fourth "Iconic Wilshire Boulevard" story for cicLAvia and Pacific Time Standard Presents: Modern Architecture in LA, Lynell George talks to producer Edward Lifson about the dreams and disillusionment embodied in Wilshire Boulevard.

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    By Frances Anderton • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    In the fourth "Iconic Wilshire Boulevard" story for cicLAvia and Pacific Time Standard Presents: Modern Architecture in LA, Lynell George talks to producer Edward Lifson about thedreams and disillusionment embodied in Wilshire Boulevard. As a writer, she equates the strip to a sentence or a river of words, "a great unscrolling street;" as a daughter, she associates Wilshire with a painful reminder of racism, experienced by her mother on arriving in Los Angeles full of high hopes.

    (Special thanks to Rima Snyder for assistance with audio production.)

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Lynell George

      journalist

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      Edward Lifson

      USC School of Architecture

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