There’s something about the vibrancy of the old Kodachrome process that really brings vintage photos to life so well that it’s not hard to imagine actually being there. This shot of the Farmers Market at Fairfax and Third on a cloudlessly sunny Angeleno day is a case in point. My favorite part of this photo, though, is that 1958 Ford Thunderbird in glorious pink. It also allows us to date the photo was being from the late 1950s, which was when the neighboring Gilmore Stadium baseball park was razed to make way for CBS Television City.

Roughly that same view in April 2019: