This is a mid-60s shot of Los Angeles if ever there was one. We’re looking east along Sunset Blvd from Cahuenga Blvd, past a Texaco gas station toward the Cinerama Dome. The Dome opened November 1963 (with the premiere of with “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”) and this shot was taken in some time in 1965, so Angelenos were probably still getting used to the novel sight of a dome-shaped movie house in the midst.
** UPDATE ** At some point, the corner where the Texaco gas station stood was once home to a Scrivner’s drive-in restaurant.
This is roughly the same view in June 2022. The Cinerama Dome is harder to see now—it’s the glimpse of white in the background.
Where is the Texaco station at? Much less clutter in the 65 photo!!!
I mostly remember that corner having a Jack in the Box Restaurant located on it. It’s now being torn down where they’ll supposedly be erecting a tall multi-story hotel, last I’ve heard.
Here’s a screenshot from the opening credits of the 1980 film Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie that shows the Texaco Station.
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The former site of Scrivener’s Drive-In, found here: https://martinturnbull.com/2013/02/24/scrivners-drive-in-at-the-corner-of-cahuenga-and-ivar-hollywood/
Once was a Roberts Brothers location.
R.I.P. Art Laboe.
Love the movie “It’s A Mad,Mad,Mad,World. That was a pretty neat movie theater. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, the Roberts Bros. name is still on that bench left of the shoe shine stand. Scrivner’s is highlighting that Chicken Enuff specialty if anyone knows what it was all about..sort of a Chicken-in-the-Rough alternative service? We can see why they’d have Art Laboe right here…the whole area on Vine was dead center to the west coast base of the music industry.