Back in the day when Hollywood Blvd was decorated for the holiday season with electric Christmas trees, the street looked very festive. But this nighttime photo from 1948 looks almost film noir with the puddles of rain water scattered across the road. The photographer was at around Whitley Ave looking east toward radio towers atop the Warner Bros. theater and the Broadway-Hollywood department store, whose neon sign we can see in the distance.

Roughly the same view in February 2021. No streetcar tracks, but the trees are now real, and the radio towers are still there.