Cahuenga Pass connecting Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley, circa 1920

Cahuenga Pass connecting Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley, circa 1920The Cahuenga Pass has long been one of the main routes connecting Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley. This photo is circa 1920, after it had been expanded from a dirt track to a streetcar line running alongside a two-lane roadway. And not a very packed one, which is good because it didn’t even have lanes painted on it.

The road we can see in this photo is now Cahuenga West Blvd, Cahuenga East Blvd was added in the late 1920s.

The auto-colorizer did a pretty good job bringing this photo to life.

Cahuenga Pass connecting Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley, circa 1920 (auto-colorized)

These days, the Cahuenga Pass has the 10-lane Hollywood Freeway running through it, plus two 2-lane Cahuenga Blvds on either side of it. This satellite image is from 2022.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

 

3 responses to “Cahuenga Pass connecting Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley, circa 1920”

  1. Matt says:

    Was friends with co-workers, 40+ years ago, who lived at the top of the Cahuenga Pass. The place was cowboy star Ray “Crash” Corrigan’s house, built not much after the posted picture was taken. Thought even then what an idyllic location it was. Sunshine, fresh air & a sense of not being in a city & that was after the Hollywood Freeway had been built!

    Totally unrelated: While looking for Corrigan’s address (couldn’t find darn it!) ran across the following pic:

    http://www.hollywoodhistoricphotos.com/images/1929%20Devastation%20from%20Colony%20fire%20wm.jpg

    Never even heard of this fire! That the on-the-water Colony burned think shows the fire devastation Malibu has always had. Looking at the pic… PCH had only been open 3 years… & all that vacant land… less than 100 years ago…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *