The photographer who took this photo on February 7, 1938 was standing between the streetcar tracks running along Highland Ave. He was standing south of Sunset Blvd looking north toward Hollywood Blvd, where we can see the Hollywood First National Bank building and the Hollywood United Methodist Church, both of which are still there. Sadly, what’s no longer there is the Currie’s Ice Cream parlor on the northeast corner of Sunset and Highland. I’ve heard that their ice cream was deeel-lish!
Roughly the same view in January 2021:
Curries was great! I got mine in San Pedro though.
Every time I see the First National building in a photo it reminds me of the incompetence of the Hollywood CofC. It seems they are OK with a tombstone at that corner.
WHAT ABOUT SCHWAB’S DRUG STORE WHERE MANY PRETTY GALS HUNG OUT TO BE DISCOVERED FOR THE FILM INDUSTRY?
Schwab’s several miles to the left of this pic.
My Curries was at the Culver Center shopping center in Culver City. One of the posts supporting the entryway was a giant concrete ice cream cone — in my favorite flavor strawberry! And the ice cream was, indeed, yummy.
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Compare this to the 1922 view looking west on Sunset. They must have made a heck of lot of adjustments to widen this thoroughfare to double dimensions and get rid of that hump crossing over the rails (which seems to be a single tracks in the earlier view).
That’s Hollywood High on the left side of the frame in the current view. When I first started working for the City of Los Angeles, I proctored civil service exams there on Saturday mornings for a few years. Even though I didn’t like being up so early on the weekend, it was still exciting to see the insides of a building where so many famous folk went to school.
The buildings on the right have been painted a green color that I like and, for some reason, I always associate with art deco. Several buildings on Highland have been painted that color.
My mind also goes directly to Art Deco whenever I see that shade of green.
Me, three!
Art Deco kitchens were often cream and that particular shade of green.
Avacado Green I like it as well.