Thank goodness for those magnificent men in their flying machines (in case you don’t know, I’m quoting the title of a Twentieth Century-Fox movie from 1965) otherwise we’d never have spectacular aerial photos of LA like this one taken in 1922. We’re looking north from Wilshire Blvd (not in frame) with La Brea Ave on the left, Highland Ave on the right, which means those two cross streets are 6^th and 3^rd. At the top is Beverly Blvd. How odd that all development stops at Beverly. I guess south of it was considered oil fields—we can see a couple of oil wells in the bottom left hand corner. Further to the left, out of frame lay a whole forest of them.

My thanks for David G for helping me orient this photo.