Color shot looking north up Vine St from Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, circa early-to-mid 1950
From that slick two-toned 1951 Kaiser Deluxe Coupe in the foreground of this photo taken at the corner of Sunset and Vine in Hollywood, I’m guessing this photo is circa early-to-mid 1950s. We can see that the NBC Radio studios were now broadcasting television. And across the street, the ABC studios are hard to miss with their large, red sign. The vividness of the colors here leads me to assume that this is a Kodachrome photograph, which is always a welcome sight to see.
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A more iconic photo than anyone realizes at a quick glance. The Taft, Broadway, and Plaza buildings still stood like Fort Hollywood. On the left, the Santa Fe Railway used the Native American image to identify itself. Likewise, barely visible on the right, Western Airlines also associated itself with the old warriors. With the autos as a modern equivalent of the covered wagon, we are in the era when the great American Western theme still rules movies and television and the coming space age is just around the corner…a nearby building actually had rocket or missile bodies out front for many years. I think the northbound two-tone hardtop might be a Chevy, but if it is a slab-sided shoebox Ford, the rounded rocket tailights were first introduced in late 1951 on the ’52 models.
Yep, Al, there’s a lot going on in this photo!