I love it when someone takes a random photo from the dashboard of their car. Especially if they’ve got color film in their camera—and perhaps even the vibrantly hued Kodachrome! We’re looking west down Wilshire Blvd from Dunsmuir Ave. Across the street is Mullen Bluett, a popular clothing store. We can also see the large neon sign for Silverwoods, an upscale menswear store. We can date it at 1956 because a British movie called “Private’s Progress” is playing at El Rey Theatre (at 5515 Wilshire, it opened in 1937 and it still around.) Judging from what appears to be a giant bunny in a top hat out front of Silverwood’s, my guess it was Eastertime, 1956.

The same view in April 2019:

The El Rey Theatre in 2019. Check out that terrazzo on the sidewalk. It’s almost gorgeous enough to make you look up from your cell phone!

Is that a well-dressed Easter bunny?

See also: Silverwoods menswear store, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, June 24, 1936.