This photo treats us to an early view of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The photographer was facing south from 9^th Street as an Oldsmobile came chugging toward him along the streetcar lines. I’ve been told it’s a circa 1904 model so let’s date this shot at around that time. We can see that back then, this part of Broadway was still residential. It wasn’t long before those houses and apartment blocks we can see in the background gave way to commercial buildings.

This is that same view in April 2019. Nothing is left from the 1904 photo – not even the streetcar tracks: