R.H. Macy Companies

The story about (Macy subsidiary) Bullock’s uncertain future (front page, Jan. 28) contained one glaring error to a native Angeleno. The Art-Deco Bullock’s Wilshire (now an I. Magnin) is not on the Miracle Mile. The Miracle Mile is (or was, depending on if it is still called that) the area of Wilshire Boulevard bounded by La Brea on the east and Fairfax to the west. In its youth, it contained the El Rey movie theater, which is now a Russian restaurant; family restaurants such as Van de Kamp’s, Tilford’s, the Ontra Cafeteria and Dupars; quality stores, including the multistoried Coulter’s department store (which later became a Broadway), Phelps-Terkel, Mullen and Bluett, Desmond’s, Ohrbach’s, Harris and Frank.

There was lots of off-street parking without parking meters or permit parking. Park La Brea was an open area sans the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the George C. Page Museum.

CAROL PRAGER BRUSHA, Glendale