If you’ve ever wondered what it might have been like to cruise through the intersection of Hollywood and Vine in the mid 1950s, here’s the closest you ever likely to get. It looks like traffic was heavy that day—or least the traffic heading west past Hody’s coffee shop (1955 to 1969) on the NW corner. Roadwork was happening on the south side of Hollywood Blvd outside the Broadway department store, which the guy in the circa 1954 Jaguar roadster just in front of us was checking out.