Look at how genteel and quiet this view is. We’re peering west along Adams Blvd from Figueroa St, south of downtown Los Angeles and north the USC campus. I love how leafy and green everything is, especially with those young palm trees in the center median strip. This is from 1926, so the Angelenos motoring along Adams Blvd here had three more years of the Roaring Twenties before everything went pear shaped.

I thought the auto-colorizer did a great job of bringing this scene to life.

I’m not entirely sure I’ve got the right stretch of Adams Blvd, but this is what it looks like face west from Figueroa, with the AAA headquarters on the left. This image is from January 2022.