During the 1940s, one of the most popular radio shows was “Breakfast in Hollywood” hosted by Tom Breneman, who ran an eponymous restaurant at 1525 N. Vine St., Hollywood. The show ran from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC, ABC and Mutual – which seems like a lot of bouncing around. Can anyone tell us if that was normal back in those days? I’m guessing this (gorgeously atmospheric) photo was taken mid 1940s, before the façade got a neon makeover.

This is a shot of roughly the same stretch of Vine Street in April 2019. Breneman’s went through a number of changes (to bowling alley then early television studios.) The building itself is long gone but what’s there now is a nice nod to the architecture of yesteryear.