Imagine flying over Los Angeles and this is the view you see when you look down. This is the area known as Century City but back in 1924, when this photo was taken, it was still a brand new development with only a handful of homes scattered among the freshly laid roads. That’s Pico Blvd near the bottom of the photo with Wilshire Blvd running along the top with all that vacant land laying to the north of it. A few years later, 20th Century-Fox studios would become the central draw for this area.

This recent satellite image is how that area looks these days. Every square inch is filled in.