In this photo we’re looking west along a busy and bustling Hollywood Blvd from around Wilcox Ave. MGM’s “Ivanhoe” is playing at the Iris Theater at 6508 Hollywood Blvd. It came out in summer of 1952, although I don’t think the Iris was a first-run theater. That huge neon Coca-Cola sign that dominates night photos of Hollywood Blvd was in place. It’s a big more striking when it’s lit up, though. By the look of the bus, this is the period where they had started to replace the streetcars. The tracks are still in the road, which indicates the beginning of the end was within sight.
This is roughly the same view in April 2019. Hollywood Blvd is a lot greener now, but a lot quieter – this image was captured a month into the Covid lockdown:
The car almost in the center of the street is a 1941 Buick Series 70 Model or 71 Touring Sedan.
The newest car I can identify is to the left a parked Plymouth station wagon a 1950 and the bullet nose Studebaker 1950 behind the Buick.