Gaylord Wilshire

[2] In 1895 he began developing 35 acres (140,000 m2) stretching westward from Westlake Park for an elite residential subdivision.

He donated a strip of land to the city of Los Angeles for a boulevard through what was then a barley field, on the conditions that it would be named for him and that railroad lines and commercial or industrial trucking would be banned.

By about 1911 Wilshire expressed doubts about electoral politics, and shifted to revolutionary syndicalism, advocacy of the general strike, and writing.

[citation needed] In 1900, Wilshire launched the first of his publishing ventures in Los Angeles, a magazine called The Challenge.

[citation needed] Wilshire eventually returned to Los Angeles and made his connection with the now famous boulevard that bore his name.