This is a shot of Hollywood Boulevard looking west from the Vine Street corner in 1932. This is when the café on the northwest corner was the Coco Tree Café. It went through many incarnations of the years—Melody Lane, then Hody’s.) This shot must have been taken at Christmas time because the street lamps are decorated with metal wreaths, each of them featuring a picture of a movie star. (In time, the wreaths were replaced by conical lighted metallic trees followed, which in time became larger and more elaborate. In the off season, they were stored over near the NBC studios in Burbank. During the holiday season, this stretch of Hollywood Boulevard was temporarily renamed “Santa Claus Lane.”