The Cahuenga Pass section of the Hollywood Freeway connects Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley. With so little traffic, I thought perhaps this was a shot of the day it opened on June 15, 1940. But turns out this was taken 9 years later in 1949. You could almost count the number of vehicles on the road and not a streetcar in sight. Right now (April 17, 2020) Los Angeles is on lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic so if a photographer stood in the same place this morning, it wouldn’t look all that different.