In yesterday’s photo, I highlighted three lonely looking shrubs in a planter along the stretch of the Hollywood Freeway that ran past Vine St and the Capitol Records building. Later, David G. sent me this photo taken around the same time (this shot is specifically from 1955.) We’re looking along the Hollywood Freeway at the original exit sign for Sunset Blvd. It’s a night shot so the three shrubs are harder to see but if you look closely near the bottom left corner, there they are, struggling to stay alive like their cousins farther north up the freeway.
Night shot looking along the Hollywood Freeway at the original exit sign for Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, 1955
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Were they supposed to grow taller?
Your guess is as good as mine!
This man made river bed is essentially a hole in the property where Mrs. Taft had lived. (Yes, that Mrs. Taft.)
The building up on the left at Van Ness is where Hollywood Sport Cars was located. It sat directly across from the Richfield Station (now a fire house). I was surprised to learn recently that there had reportedly been a bowling alley on that spot (and ballroom/dance joint IIRC) before the car guys.