Mulholland Highway sounds like an overly grand name for a road that curves around the western edge of Beachwood Canyon in the Hollywood hills for maybe a couple of mines but hey, LA is built on grand dreams. Like most of the roads in Hollywoodland, the highway (not to be confused with Mulholland Drive) was built in the mid-1920s before, as we can see here, hardly any of the houses started appearing.
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Martin, everything you post takes me back to an age I wasn’t able to experience…
but through you, I CAN dream about. Thank you!
And thank you, Swimologist, for enjoying my various postings and musings. We can dream about this era together!
I recognise that road. Splits in 2 for a short distance. Nearly took the left side by mistake when i went there in 2005!
I assume, then, that you’re from a British Commonwealth county. You gotta watch those turns!
Hi Martin. Yes, England. Drove up there that day, but had a temporary loss of memory when I came to the split roads.Haha! ?
I’m originally from Australia and I had to actively think about it for the first couple of years I lived here.
Hi Martin. Loved the lists of old clubs and restaurants on your site. I Google mapped a lot of them, and found that although a lot had gone, some still remained, albeit in different ways. For example,The Tam-o-Shanter in Los Feliz is still a restaurant!! What would be amazing would be an old photo for each place. Not possible, I know, but great to match old with new.
Oh yes, Dominic, The Tam-o-Shanter is still very much in business. (Well, that is to say it was before the Covid lockdown kicked in in March 2020.) It reeks with atmosphere. If you ever come back I recommend you visit it!
Probably matches alongside your Opening Day 1924 shot with that much traffic coming through. The 1922 plan map on The Times front page shows the eastern entrance began at Brush Canyon above Franklin. The western end never came down from the hills but connected to Topanga Canyon with its’ own roadway.