This photo shows us how far Beverly Hills has come. This photo is circa 1915, and shows the front lawn of the Beverly Hills Hotel, which would have been open for a couple of years. The street at the bottom left hand corner is Sunset Blvd, and that little structure on the far left was the then-new Pacific Electric Railway station. (Pacific Electric ran the famous Red Car streetcars of L.A.) Beyond that are the empty fields of Beverly Hills, patiently waiting for the rich and famous to discover them.

Roughly that same view in March 2017