This photo from 1940 has me wondering how many of LA’s public streets have now been closed off to the public. This particular one is called Trousdale Parkway and connects Jefferson Blvd with Exposition Blvd near the University of Southern California south of downtown Los Angeles. I love those dual-lamp electroliers that light the median strip. Interestingly, there are no lanes painted on the roads—maybe because they each go in one direction only.

** UPDATE ** – According to THIS article: “University Avenue was formally closed in December 1953 with great fanfare, signaling the start of a self-contained University Park Campus. The street is now USC’s main pedestrian thoroughfare that Trojans know by a different name: Trousdale Parkway.”

Trousdale Parkway has now been incorporated into the USC campus, where it’s now a pedestrian-only walkway. This satellite image is from January 2020.