As much as I love the old-fashioned feel of black-and-white and sepia photos, there’s something so alive and real about color vintage photos. In this one from the 1940s, we’re treated to a glimpse of a Pacific Electric Red Car returning from the San Fernando Valley and heading into Los Angeles through the Cahuenga Pass. In the next decade, buses replaced streetcars so the track lines became traffic lanes when the Hollywood Freeway replaced everything we see here.
It might be hard to believe, but in the late 1930s my parents used to walk along this route from Hollywood, out Ventura Blvd. to Laurel Canyon Blvd. where there was a diner at that intersection run by a Greek fellow. I believe the place was named Dick’s. They became somewhat regulars and were always greeted with hugs.
It might be hard to believe, but in the late 1930s my parents used to walk along this route from Hollywood, out Ventura Blvd. to Laurel Canyon Blvd. where there was a diner at that intersection run by a Greek fellow. I believe the place was named Dick’s. They became somewhat regulars and were always greeted with hugs.
They would walk all that way? Just for dinner? Dick must have served up some yummy Greek food!
In those days they were young, money was not plentiful and this was both recreation and entertainment for them.