This photo was captioned: “Test of a plan proposed to speed up peak-hour traffic on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, March 1940” so I guess we’re looking at an artificially induced traffic jam here…? Whatever their plan was, I can’t imagine it worked. Either way, I just love seeing that open-air double decker bus on the right, outside a Sontag pharmacy. I’m pretty sure they were still around when I moved to LA in the mid ‘90s – this one looks like it took up the whole block.