Looking west toward the intersection of Wilshire Blvd and South San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, 1940

Looking west toward the intersection of Wilshire Blvd and South San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, 1940The sprawling intersection where Wilshire Blvd meets San Vicente Blvd marks the eastern-most part of Beverly Hills. I don’t even want to think what it was like to navigate it without traffic lights! This photo was taken in 1940. That windmill on the right is a Van de Kamp’s Holland-Dutch Bakery. They all had those eye-catching things on their roofs, which made a clever and effective advertising. I wish we could see more of that building on the far right, the one with the turret. It looks like it would have been a gorgeous piece of architectural eye candy.

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