In this aerial shot we’re looking east along the Beverly Hills stretch of Santa Monica Blvd before it makes a slight turn to the right as it enters West Hollywood. It was taken in 1924, when West Hollywood was still going by its original name of Sherman. (The name change came a year later.) At the very bottom center of the photo, we can see the Beverly Hills train station and the tracks running parallel to Santa Monica Blvd . . . and all that empty land it ran through.

Here is a 2021 satellite photo of that same area. The garden marked “Beverly Gardens Park” in the bottom left corner is the same one in the bottom left corner of the vintage photo.