From the always-interesting Davelandweb site comes this color photo of Union Station at the edge of downtown in 1950. What I like about this photo is that the railway station looks practically the same now as it did back then. The main difference is that the palm trees are taller. I also like that car on the right. It’s not all sparkling and shiny new like in a 2022 movie set in 1950, but looks like it had a lot of miles on it and has gathered some rust along the way.
Roughly the same view in June 2021:
The other car entering on the left looks snazzy! Engine hood appears big enough to hide a twelve cylinder block, and that passenger area seems to possibly be a cockpit-styled single seater. Maybe these vehicles are heading straight in to the area behind the restaurant where the bar was located. A cocktail party for the oddbal-auto set?
“Roughly the same view in June 2021”
Boy, they sure leave their Christmas decorations up a long time! 🙂
Maybe they be bother going to trouble of getting all the way up there to retrieve it!
A blog link where an album of photos resides showing LAUPT in 1939 as it was new (scroll way down to entry, lots of great stuff before that too): https://losangelespast.blogspot.com/2012/
And the view (from USC archives) of Hill Street at 1st (before tunnels) is a great one! A tough route for electric rails to get around the hills before Los Angeles Pacific bored right through.