These days, the road through Elysian Park is known as Stadium Way (because it runs past Dodger Stadium) but back the 1920s, when this photo was taken, it was called Avenue of the Palms for fairly obvious reasons. It’s kind of funny to see palm trees without trunks, but the city knew that in time they’d grow to make a picturesque frame for drivers.

Here’s a similar shot taken in 1937:

Here is an auto-colorized version:

This is how that stretch of Stadium Way looked in February 2023.