By the time this photo was taken outside the Hollywood Bowl in the 1950s, Los Angeles’ transformation from “best public transportation network in the world” to “city most reliant on the automobile” was well underway. But, I’m wondering, what those logs in the foreground were for. It looks like construction was going on but as far as I’m aware, the land opposite the Bowl’s entrance was a parking lot until the Cecil B. DeMille barn (where filming took place on “The Squaw Man” (1914), the first feature film to be produced in the Hollywood area) was moved there in 1983.