Looking north across an unpaved Sunset Blvd, the Beverly Hills Hotel under construction, 1912

1912 looking north across an unpaved Sunset Blvd, the Beverly Hills Hotel under constructionThe Beverly Hills Hotel is probably one of the most photographed hotels in L.A. but I’ve never seen one like this before. This was taken in 1912 during the hotel’s construction. The photographer was standing on Sunset Boulevard but he wouldn’t have had worry about getting run over by traffic back then. His biggest danger was getting stuck in the mud—it wasn’t even paved back then.

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