In this photo, we’re looking north up Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood. That Los Angeles Pacific Railroad streetcar is on Hollywood Blvd, which at the time (this shot is dated 1900) was known as Prospect Ave. It’s en route to faraway Santa Monica Beach. We can see how leafy Hollywood was back then, and how sparsely populated it was. I do like that wooden gazebo next to the white house in the background. It must have been very pleasant to sit out there on warm summer evenings—one might even have taken off one’s corset!
That white house in the background belonged to painter Paul De Longpre. Here is a better shot of that gazebo:
This is how that corner looked in March 2018:
Wow, Los Angeles was really a lovely place at one time. Reminds me of Savannah or New Orleans.
It was a whole different sort of place from a whole different sort of time.