This rather stunning aerial photograph was taken looking southeast across the Brunton studios in 1918. Brunton, which later evolved into Paramount Studios, is the line of buildings in the center-left. Melrose Ave is running diagonally across the middle, which means those paths running through the empty land in the bottom-left is the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. That empty block of land with the circular path is interesting. I don’t know what it was, but it would eventually become RKO.

Here is a 2021 satellite photo of the same area: