Night shot from under Carpenter’s Drive-In at corner of Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, circa late 1950s

Posted on November 9, 2014 by

Night shot from under Carpenter's Drive-In at corner of Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, circa late 1950sI do enjoy a night photograph, especially when it involves neon lighting, but this one is a doozie. It was taken in the (probably late) 1950s on the southeast corner of Sunset and Vine from under the neon canopy of Carpenter’s Drive-In. We can see Wallich’s Music Center (making a big push for them there new-fangled contraptions called televisions), and their neighbor—Capitol Records, Coffee Dan’s, the Gruen Watch Time billboard and the iconic NBC radio building.

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2 responses to “Night shot from under Carpenter’s Drive-In at corner of Sunset and Vine, Hollywood, circa late 1950s”

  1. Stephen says:
    November 1, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    I visited Music City a few times in the early 1960s. It was ‘the’ place to buy records during that era. As I recall, the lighted ground level windows were listening booths. You could take a record (33 1/3 rpm) into the booth and listed to some of it before purchase.

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