Without a motorcar to help date this photo of the Hollywood Hotel, it’s hard to pin down exactly when it was taken. But in a way, I don’t really mind. It gives us a sort of timeless quality, doesn’t it? On the right, it looks like some women are sitting on the veranda. I wonder if they’re with the two men who are standing at the top of the steps, and if they were enjoying their stay there.

Daniel S says: “The Queen Palm in the photo grows approximately one to two per year, I’m guessing it’s close to 50 feet (base at ground level to top of tree, not the height of fronds). Then I’d take a guess that the tree was planted in the 1905 and it’s between 6 and 10 feet when the hotel opened, and this picture taken in the late 1930s to early 40s.”