Looking north up Highland Ave past Currie’s Ice Cream toward Hollywood Boulevard, 1938
In this 1938 photo, we’re looking up Highland Ave from Sunset Boulevard past the Currie’s Ice Cream store toward the gleaming white tower of the Hollywood First National Bank building on the Hollywood Boulevard corner. What caught my eye, though, was the painted zigzag on the road next to the streetcar line. I’m assuming that was where people waited for the next Red Car, but they look awfully vulnerable to inattentive drivers, if you ask me.
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Note also the Standard Oil of Calif. gas station sign with the familiar chevrons right above the “Currie’s” sign
What a shame they got rid of those beautiful streetlights.
That’s exactly what that painted zigzag was. The line was to alert drivers to the fact that there was a low “platform” where passengers were to stand while waiting for a streetcar to come along. Dangerous? Yes. I can’t imagine something like that now. Our above ground Metro Rail stops have true platforms which are raised and protected.
So there actually was a platform to stand on? Raised above the road? Like, what, an inch or two?
Yes that little rectangle at the end of the zigzag is the “platform.” It was literally only an inch or two.