Judging from the white 1938 La Salle convertible parked outside The Tropics, I’d say this photo of Vine Street in Hollywood north of Sunset Blvd was taken in the late 1930s. This Tropics was known as the Hollywood Tropics as it was also owned by “Sugie” Sugarman, whose original Tropics was one of the first Polynesian places. (Later on, it became The Luau.) In a 1941 Los Angeles Guide, the Hollywood Tropics is described as “So atmospheric you feel the rainy season coming on.”