In this glorious color photo, we’re looking west along Hollywood Blvd from Cherokee Ave, Hollywood, circa 1955. These days, Hollywood Blvd has a lot more trees than it had back then (which, as we can see, was virtually no trees at all) so the same view looks different but a remarkable number of buildings are still with us: that office building on the south side of Hollywood and Cherokee, the Drake Hotel (which had been the Christie until 1945 and is now owned by the Church of Scientology), the First National Bank of Hollywood building (the while building with the turret) and, of course, the 102-year-old Musso & Frank restaurant.

Roughly the same view in February 2019:

The marvelous grill work on the office building on the southwest corner of Hollywood and Cherokee is still in terrific condition. This image is also from February 2021: