Looking southwest from Gardner Ave across an orchard near Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1924

Looking southwest from Gardner Ave across an orchard near Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1924In this 1924 photo, we’re looking southwest from Gardner Ave near Hollywood Blvd. That fairly sizeable orchard (possibly avocados) was can see shows that the ever-onward march of progress had quite yet completely swallowed what had once been the semi-rural community of Hollywood. I assumed that the orchard is long gone, but a large block of land known as Wattles Farm (which is a community garden) lays west of Gardner and Hollywood, so maybe that orchard has survived the 99 years since the photo was taken.

This is a satellite image of that same area in 2023.

I thought the auto-colorizer did a pretty good job of bringing the vintage photo to life.

 

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One response to “Looking southwest from Gardner Ave across an orchard near Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1924”

  1. David Ginsburg says:

    The houses visible at the far right of the picture are still standing on Curson Avenue. The broad street at the left is indeed Sierra Bonita heading south to Hollywood Boulevard. And between the two street is indeed Wattles Farm.

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