If you had stood on the 4^th-floor balcony of Beverly Hills City Hall on May 1, 1934 and looked west, this would have been your view. Mostly, it would have been of the Beverly Hills post office, which is that building with the curved—honestly, I don’t know what it is. Public seating? Fountain? Does anybody reading this remember? We can also see the railway lines running along Santa Monica Blvd on the left.

** UPDATE ** – Here’s a close up somebody sent me on Twitter:

This site is now home to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The post office building is gone, but the one on the right with the fancy door is still with us. This satellite image from 2021 shows us that the city hall’s forecourt has changed, and we can see the Annenberg buildings have replaced part of the post office.