Cultural References
The opening credits sequence of blaxploitation film Coffy (1973) is a night drive on Miracle Mile.
A line from Billy Joel's first Billboard number-one single "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" asks "Are you gonna cruise the Miracle Mile?" However, it is likely this is in reference to the Miracle Mile in Manhasset on Long Island, as Joel was born and raised on Long Island.
The 1988 cult film Miracle Mile is set in the area.
The Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Blvd. is incinerated building by building in the 1997 film Volcano, when lava explodes out of the La Brea Tar Pits and surges down Museum Row, but is stopped before any homes along the street are destroyed. At the film's end, the new volcano is christened "Mt. Wilshire".
The New Radicals' 1998 hit "You Get What You Give" also makes reference to the Miracle Mile district.
"Pearl of the Quarter", the seventh track from Steely Dan's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy, contains a reference to the Miracle Mile.
Marilyn Manson makes reference to the Miracle Mile in his song "Coma White".
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)