What a difference 120 years of rampant development can make. What we’re looking at here is the bucolic view looking east along Santa Monica Blvd from around Beachwood Drive. These days, the view is all auto repair mini malls and unremarkable offices but back then, it would have been a lovely place for a weekend stroll. Part of this land did remain open, however, as the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which would have been brand new when this photo was taken circa 1900.

Out of curiosity, I ran the photo through one of those colorization website just to see how it would turn out. I think it did a pretty good job of giving us an idea of what this scene looked like to the photographer that day: