It must have been odd to look north up Broadway from 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles this particular night in 1946 and see no streetcars. Evidently there was a transit strike so no streetcars were running around Los Angeles, and that must have been awfully inconvenient. During the post-war boom, many Angelenos got around town (especially when traveling into downtown) via the extensive streetcar network. Note the “Open All Night” sign at the Loew’s State Theatre on the left. They started showing movies 24 hours a day during the war to accommodate people who were working all kinds of crazy shifts.

Roughly the same view in February 2021. The Loew’s State Theatre is still there. Well, the building is, at any rate. Last time I was in downtown LA it was a church, but that was before the Covid pandemic so who knows what is is now.