I couldn’t find much information about this atmospheric photo. What I could glean is that we’re perched atop the bluffs overlooking Santa Monica beach facing south along the beach toward the pier. That’s the constellation of bright lights in the distance—we can even make out the slopes of the roller coaster. Evidently this photo was taken in 1929, when I would imagine there was nowhere near the development there is now, so what those very bright lights on the left were coming from is anybody’s guess. Headlights, maybe?