If we had been wandering around the Hollywood hills above the Sunset Strip in the early 1930s, this would have been the view looking southeast. The white tower near the center of the photo is the Sunset Tower, which opened in 1929 (as an apartment building before it became a hotel.) The house in the foreground is at 8440 Carlton Way. It was built in 1926 and is still there and, from what I can see, still fairly intact. The photographer might have been standing on empty land farther up the hillside, or he could have on Hollywood Boulevard. It doesn’t end at Laurel Canyon Blvd but continues to wind its way through the hills until it hits Sunset Plaza Drive. Either way, it was (and is) a commanding view.

The house at 8440 Carlton Way as at January 2018: