It’s hard to imagine that any part of downtown looked like this, let alone 20 years into the 20th century. (The cars we can see are circa late 1920s.) The road we can see in this photo is Spring Street (see below for update) which runs alongside what then would have been the newly opened Los Angeles City Hall (which opened in 1928) that we can see in the background. It’s amazing that Spring St was still a meandering dirt road. I’m guessing this stretch was around about where the 101 Freeway now cuts across the top of downtown L.A. The “Auto Park 15 cents” sign refers to Sunset Blvd ends just north of the 101.

** UPDATE ** – Jack F says: “As you can see in photo below this was not Spring Street but a dirt road just east of the Broadway Tunnel. We’re looking at the intersection of Sunset and North Broadway.”