It’s not often that a mid-1950s Hollywood view doesn’t look a whole lot different to an early 2020s view, but this one does. We’re looking south down Vine Street from the corner of Yucca. The Capital Records building opened in 1954 so it was a still an unusual and photo-worthy sight (and still is.) The Vine Manor Hotel on the left is gone, but the Equitable Building on the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine is still with us, as is the Broadway Hollywood building on the southwest corner. South of Hollywood Boulevard, the cityscape really begins to change but at around Yucca street, you can still what Hollywood used to look like.

Roughly the same view in May 2019: