From the look of this photo we can see that driving down the Beverly Hills section of Sunset Boulevard in the 1940s wasn’t the well-watered, well-tended, well-manicured stretch that it is today. This is the stretch of Sunset that leads up to the western end of the Sunset Strip. https://goo.gl/maps/sXNBv (Thanks to Jon Ponder from “Playground to the Stars” for this retro-sleuthing.)