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• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE (1861-1927)
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
• GAYLORD WILSHIRE
• “SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
• H. GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE MILLNAIRE SOCIALIST
• THE GAYLORD APARTMENTS: LUXURY, SOCIALISM, AND L.A.'S FIRST FAILED CO-OP
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE, LAND DEVELOPER, PUBLISHER, AND SOCIALIST IN HARLEM, 1861 – 1927
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE LNAIRE SOCIALIST PAPERBACK – JANUARY 26, 2012
• AUTHOR:HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
• “SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915
• HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE (1861-1927)

Wilshire Boulevard got s name om a flamboyant character named Henry Gaylord Wilshire.

Gaylord Wilshire had many pursus his lifetime.

For more rmatn about Gaylord Wilshire, see the fantastic book Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Conurse of Los Angel and/or this blog post by Jam Col Campbell. Henry Gaylord Wilshire was ntradictn- at once a champn of socialism, and at the same time a serial entreprenr who ma and lost several fortun a wi variety of bs ventur.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861–1927) me om a wealthy fay Ccnati, Oh. Gaylord Wilshire told the cy that orr for him to perm a street to bisect the property, the boulevard mt be 120 feet wi and mt bear his name.

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Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSHenry Gaylord Wilshire (June 7, 1861 – September 7, 1927), known to his ntemporari by his middle name of "Gaylord", was an Amerin land veloper, publisher, and outspoken socialist.

GAYLORD WILSHIRE

Gaylord Wilshire, om his book Socialism Inevable. Henry Gaylord Wilshire on JSTOR. One of the more notable and unual figur the regn om the 1880s through the 1920s was Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927) and today’s featured object om the Homtead’s llectn is a prospect for his Gaylord Gold Me, issued October 1915.

When Wilshire’s much olr brother, William, head wt to San Francis, Gaylord, who first worked as a clerk his father’s bank, joed his siblg. William owned the prospero Wilshire Safe and Sle Company and Gaylord was associated wh the enterprise.

“SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915

The Wilshire fay’s enumeratn the 1870 feral cens at Ccnati, where Gaylord’s father, Gee, was listed as a retired merchant wh self-clared assets of $400, 000, a substantial sum for the era. For those unaware of how this appellatn me to be applied to the name, he proclaimed “I n tell you, for was my dog, for I am the Wilshire—Gaylord Wilshire.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

Wilshire, his send wife Mary McReynolds, their son Logan, Mary’s mother and two servants at their Pasana hoehold the 1920 feral cens, which lists Gaylord as “pri[nt] gold me. Parsons, a proment late 19th century real tate figure who worked extensively wh the Wilshire brothers, wrote a letter to the Tim to say that “ the statements logistic of the late Gaylord Wilshire, allow me to state that” Wilshire’s olr brother William, who died 1917, was “the prcipal mover the Wilshire district improvements adjog Wtlake.

” Yet, is Gaylord Wilshire who has been acunted the veloper of Wilshire Boulevard and s tract and who has a unique place greater Los Angel history. Is named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire, a son of wealth om Ccnati, Oh, who ma and lost several fortun his lifetime. Henry Gaylord Wilshire was om Ccnati, Oh, who ma and lost several fortun his life.

“Gaylord” Wilshire arrived Southern California 1887, termed to make a name for himself real tate.

H. GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE MILLNAIRE SOCIALIST

And Gaylord Wilshire was adamant that there would be no tras or trolleys of any kd on his street — jt row after row of expensive rintial hom. “Otis go and buys a hoe on Gaylord Wilshire’s tract. But not bee of Gaylord Wilshire.

THE GAYLORD APARTMENTS: LUXURY, SOCIALISM, AND L.A.'S FIRST FAILED CO-OP

Gaylord Wilshire got smaller. A pamphlet advertis Gaylord Wilshire’s I-on-a- Belt.

Gaylord Wilshire died exile. But the street named after Gaylord Wilshire remas an important traffic artery.

All spe of Gaylord Wilshire. I’ve recently been readg Kev Starr’s excellent book Inventg the Dream: California Through the Progrsive Era (the send an epic seven-volume history of California), and me across a sectn on a lorful character named Henry Gaylord Wilshire, who was one of the ial velopers of Fullerton.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE, LAND DEVELOPER, PUBLISHER, AND SOCIALIST IN HARLEM, 1861 – 1927

Gaylord Wilshire om his book Socialism Inevable (1907). Gaylord Wilshire, print of the Fullerton and Anaheim Natnalist clubs, ran for ngrs as a Socialist both 1890 and 1900. Gaylord Wilshire (as he signed himself) was a promoter and a visnary the style of Abbot Kney of Venice and a number of other Southern California eccentrics of this era: a visnary, and perhaps somethg of a quack, the Wizard of Oz behd the green curta, ” Starr wr.

A book about Wilshire’s life was published 2012 entled Henry Gaylord Wilshire: the Millnaire Socialist by Lou Rosen. Henry Gaylord Wilshire, known as Gaylord to his iends, was a man of many hats. Gaylord was a prototype of a strange and paradoxil breed of man, the liberal polician of great wealth who would someday le Ameri.

Gaylord was born Ccnati 1861.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

He sent Gaylord to Harvard, but the ntrary young man only lasted one year. Gaylord Wilshire, .

In 1884 Gaylord, now sportg what was to be his signature sr-verg Van Dyck beard, moved to the small cy of Los Angel.

After his loss and several bs setbacks he left Los Angel, and followed Hannah to an unsuccsful stab at a seat the Brish parliament and a spl wh the still radil Hannah, a more morate Gaylord returned to now-boomg Los Angel 1895.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE LNAIRE SOCIALIST PAPERBACK – JANUARY 26, 2012

Gaylord palized on this succs by placg a seri of garish billboards all along the trolley le nng parallel to Wilshire, censg lol nservativ cludg L.

Gaylord lost tert the subdivisn and moved on to his te love: sh*t stirrg. Although his magaze prted many fluential piec, cludg excerpts of Sclair Lewis' "The Jungle, " s mocratizg cheap price meant lost money and Gaylord was soon need of sh.

1 It seems that Henry Gaylord Wilshire, one of the first limoe liberals, was a ltle b of both.

AUTHOR:HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

In the 1920s, while the elrly Gaylord hawked his ventn mail-orr talogu, no part of Los Angel was hipper than the namake street he had long lost tert .

They hired the firm of Walker and Eisen to sign a thirteen-story, early renaissance-spired apartment buildg, and nstctn began January of buildg was named after Gaylord, and s character mimicked the ntradictory forefather more ways than one. Though already a long standg tradn on the east ast, -ops, or "own-your-owns" as they were phily lled, were new to the Wt Coast, and the Gaylord's bs manager G.

Aerial view of the Gaylord Apartments, . 21 all apartments the magnificent Gaylord, pletely furnished, will be sold as ''Own Your Own Apartment''. The Gaylord offered weekly classil mic programs performed by the popular, all-female "Gaylord Tr, " who, along wh a dramatic rear, also performed on lol rad statns on hours sponsored by The Gaylord.

“SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915

In July 1924, The Gaylord Aparments sponsored a rad program featurg young talents | Los Angel Tim, July 19, 1924. Lilly lived at the Gaylord, toastg his Harvard-grad dghter, Ruth, and her new blue-blood hband at a fay receptn the ballroom. The sus, along wh stgglg sal and equent (and shady) chang ownership, eventually forced the Gaylord to receivership.

In 1930, the Co-op was dissolved and the buildg beme a tradnal long and short term rental apartment the change ownership, the Deprsn, and even the stick up of the ont sk clerk by a "particularly good lookg" lady2 and her two male acplic, took ltle lter off the Gaylord's addrs.

HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE

Art exhibs, mil recals, bridg, Republin fundraisers, and war relief teas were held, and the high-toned and famo slipped om the madns of the Ambassador's famed Conut Grove nightclub across the street to The Gay Room, which opened on the ground floor 1948. Wh the assassatn of Bobby Kennedy there 1968, and the shiftg of the ele wtward, the Gaylord beme jt another apartment buildg jt another crime-ridn part of Los Angel.

In 2006, when the long funct Ambassador was torn down to make way for the Robert Kennedy Communy School, a star-studd wake was held at the still btlg Gaylord and HMS Bounty.