This east-looking vista along Wilshire Blvd from Normandie was taken in the mid-to-late 1940s. There are some buildings that are still there, such as the Gaylord Apartments, and the Wilshire Christian Church (known today as Oasis Church) whose palm trees are still around. But others have gone, like the Brown Derby restaurant and those two radio towers. But can we talk about those storm clouds? The relentlessly sunny LA skies rarely see them!

On the radio tower we can see the call sign KFAC. Linda says: “The KFAC radio tower brings back memories. They played classical music. One of their hosts was Fred Crane, who was Brent, one of the Tarleton Twins in “Gone with the Wind.” KFAC was the only commercial classical music station until the Corporation for Public Broadcasting started giving education-affiliated radio enough money and NPR gave them programming.”

Roughly the same view in May 2019: