In this photo, we’re looking west up the 101 Hollywood Freeway from the Vermont Ave overpass. This was taken in 1955 when the freeway hadn’t been open for very long—maybe a year or so. According to one source I read, a year after the Hollywood Freeway opened, it was used by an average of 183,000 vehicles a day, almost double the capacity it was designed to carry. Maybe this photo was taken on a light day because I drive the 101 fairly regularly and it only looks like this at 6 A.M. on a Sunday morning.