In all the years I’ve been researching Los Angeles history, I’ve come across tons of photos of the Carthay Circle Theatre, which opened in 1926. But this is the first time I’ve seen a photo taken FROM the theater’s majestic tower. This is the view from atop the tower looking northeast across what would later become the Park La Brea apartments. Down near the bottom of the picture, running down the center of San Vicente Boulevard, we can see the trolley lines used by the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway, which at the time this photo was taken (circa 1929) was the largest electric railway system in the world.