Letters: The Wilshire Grand and downtown’s rebirth
Re “Creative destruction,†Business, June 27
The demolition of the Wilshire Grand Hotel is certainly the end of an era for Los Angeles.
When the hotel opened in 1952 as the Statler, it signaled a change for downtown Los Angeles. The Statler became the place to go for conferences, meetings and business lunches, taking away from the historic Biltmore.
In some ways, the Statler signaled the rebirth of downtown Los Angeles, several years before Security Pacific National Bank decided to keep its headquarters downtown on Spring Street rather than moving west to mid-Wilshire, and 15 years before the completion of the Los Angeles Music Center.
The Wilshire Grand Hotel holds pleasant memories for this Los Angeles native.
Martin A. Brower
Corona del Mar
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