From 1927 to 1963, a long viaduct bridge stood where Pico Blvd meets San Vicente Blvd. This photo, taken on November 2, 1927, gives us an idea of what traffic was like back then (very light compared to today!) City officials gathered underneath the Woodhead Lumber on the right hand side to mark the viaduct’s opening (at the time, Pico Blvd was still called Pico Street) with the crossing of a three-part Pacific Electric Red Car. If they were worried that the viaduct wouldn’t hold up to all that weight, they needn’t have. In 1963, the city planned an 8-week demolition of the bridge, but it took 13 weeks to finish the job.

That bridge has been gone for nearly 60 years so I’m not sure I’ve got the right angle with this image. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. But this is what the Pico Blvd/San Vicente Blvd intersection looked like in February 2021: