I don’t know when this aerial shot of Hancock Park was taken, but I’m guessing mid 1920s. Hancock Park is a very ritzy part of Los Angeles—the homes there are breathtaking and classy. It lays south of Paramount studios and was developed around the same time as Beverly Hills. I love that we can see nascent Hancock Park in the foreground, the city of Hollywood far off at the foot of the distant Hollywood hills, and in between is acres and acres of empty land studded with oil pumps. (That S-bend near the bottom is 6^th Street. These days if you take it heading west, you’ll end up at Park La Brea.)

** UPDATE ** – Marjorie says: “According to Zillow, the home that is now at the NE corner of S. Hudson and W. 6th — part of the S curve — was built in 1924. It is absent in this photo. I lived there in the 90s and would be wakened about once a month by cars wiping out on that curve.”