These screen-shot photos are taken from a home movie shot in the very late 1920s and gives us a rare glimpse into life going on around Hollywood before the roof fell in and the Depression kick-started the 1930s.
Life around Hollywood in the very late 1920s
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What a fabulous time machine!
I know, right? I live for this sort of stuff!
It’s not that I want to go back in time so much as I’d really like to see our streets built more in this imaginative manner that is oriented to the pedestrian, unlike much of LA today, which looks like it was designed as a drive by; or San Francisco, whose commercial streetscape too often apes a mall (it’s sad here but it’s tragic when you see the same thing happening to ancient Venice, as it is). Hollywood boulevard then was attractive, today even though better than it was, it’s more tacky, like a beach boardwalk than an urban street.