From our 21st century eyes, this photo looking east along Sunset Blvd from Vine St in Hollywood is filled with what we think of as classic American cars. But of course back in the early 1960s when this photo was taken (one of those cars is a 1960 Ford Fairlane and another is a 1960 Ford Falcon) they were all just regular cars that filled the streets of America from coast to coast. In the background, behind the two red ones, we can see the sign for Moulin Rouge, which is the nightclub that the Earl Carroll Theatre became in 1953.

This is roughly the same view in February 2021. You can juuuuuust see the Earl Carroll/Moulin Rouge building in the background. It’s still painted as the Aquarius for the Tarantino film “Once Upon a Time in America.”