Electrician in Miracle Mile, California

Miracle Mile is prewar apartment buildings and duplexes along with commercial frontage. Meter stacks from the 1930s are still in service here more often than people expect.

The boulevard was laid out in the 1920s as a shopping district built for cars, and Art Deco and Streamline Moderne commercial buildings still line it, along with Museum Row: LACMA, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Petersen and the Academy Museum. North and south of Wilshire, the residential streets are mostly 1920s and 1930s Spanish revival duplexes, fourplexes and small apartment buildings, with Park La Brea's towers and garden apartments to the north. Newer apartment buildings have been going up along Wilshire, especially along the D Line subway extension.

In the residential blocks, a typical building has a meter cluster on the side wall feeding small unit panels, sometimes still fused, with ungrounded circuits inside. Upstairs units in duplexes often have the weakest service. Owners call when an insurer wants old panels replaced, when tenants add AC and laundry, or when a unit turnover exposes old wiring. Commercial owners on Wilshire call about tenant improvement work and aging switchgear in older buildings.

What Miracle Mile properties usually need