Until I came across this photo, I’d kind of forgotten that Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines even existed. Here we see a TWA ticket office on the northwest corner Sunset Blvd and El Centro Ave, just down the block from the Palladium nightclub. According to Wikipedia, by 1945 TWA had acquired 10 Constellations and some international routes, so I’m guessing this photo is from the mid to late 1940s, especially seeing as how those two guys crossing El Centro were in uniform.
This is how that same corner looks now. This image is from May 2019:
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40 years ago, the luxury way to go from coast to coast.
Today, a vanished memory.