Aerial view, looking west over Beverly Hills where Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards intersect, 1928

Aerial view, looking west over Beverly Hills where Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards intersect, 1928 - Aerial view, looking west, of Beverly Hills where Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards intersect, 1928This aerial view is looking west across Beverly Hills from where Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards cross. It was taken in 1928, and I am shaking my head at the sight of all that empty land. It must have felt semi-rural driving through this area at that time. Then again, most of Los Angeles probably looked like this.

Comment from reader: “By the time we got to California (late 1937 or early 1938), there was a wonderful fountain on the NE corner which went though the colors of the rainbow and I was always fascinated by it. On the NW corner there was a gas station – Polly gas, I think. And behind that a putting green which we walked to when I took golf for PE at Beverly Hills High School. Speaking of looking empty, you should have seen the San Fernando Valley then.  25 acre lots and lots of nut trees.”

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One response to “Aerial view, looking west over Beverly Hills where Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards intersect, 1928”

  1. Nan Williams says:

    Thank you

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