It’s hard (read: almost impossible) to picture how 3rd Street in Santa Monica must have looked before it became a busy and popular pedestrian promenade in 1965. But this 1910 photo gives us some idea of what it must have been like back when Angelenos were still getting used to those new-fangled horseless carriage thingies. Until I saw this photo, I didn’t know that 3rd Street had a streetcar running down it, which must have been handy for the people living in the Adelaide apartments, whose sign we can see on the left.
The 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica in 1965, when it first opened as a pedestrian-only street. (It wasn’t called the 3rd Street Promenade til they revamped it in the late 80s. Before that it was called The Santa Monica Mall.)
It’s hard (read: almost impossible) to picture how 3rd Street in Santa Monica must have looked before it became a busy and popular pedestrian promenade in 1965. But this 1910 photo gives us some idea of what it must have been like back when Angelenos were still getting used to those new-fangled horseless carriage thingies. Until I saw this photo, I didn’t know that 3rd Street had a streetcar running down it, which must have been handy for the people living in the Adelaide apartments, whose sign we can see on the left.
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