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Looking north toward the Autry Museum of the American West along the Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles, after its completion in 1940
On December 30, 1940, the Arroyo Seco Parkway opened as one of the US’s first freeways. The caption for this photo say it was taken in 1940. If that’s correct, it must have been taken on the first or second … Continue reading
Night view looking southeast past the Hollywood Cross down the Hollywood Freeway into Hollywood (undated)
This undated image (which I assume is a from a postcard) is a night view looking southeast past the Hollywood Cross down the Hollywood Freeway into Hollywood. Outside of a Cecil B. DeMille epic, perhaps, religion and Hollywood are rarely … Continue reading
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Color photo of the Hollywood Freeway looking northwest past Hollywood Blvd toward the Hollywood sign, circa mid-1950s
In this photo (which has a very postcard-y feel to it) we’re looking northwest across the Hollywood Freeway. That overpass on the left is Hollywood Blvd and if we look much farther into the background, we can see the Hollywood … Continue reading
Night shot looking along the Hollywood Freeway at the original exit sign for Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, 1955
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 … Continue reading
Photo of the Grapevine Coffee Shop and 76 gas station prior to demolition, 5 Freeway northbound toward Bakersfield, California, circa 1960s
“The Grapevine” is the name given to the stretch of the Interstate 5 north of Santa Clarita and south of Bakersfield. It’s the area of Southern California highway most likely to be socked in with weather during the winter, but … Continue reading
A family of four watch the opening of the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass, Los Angeles, 1962
Back in the 1950s and 60s, when the burgeoning freeway system was reshaping Los Angeles, the opening of a new one was a bit of an event. In this photo, the couple seen here decided the 1962 opening of the … Continue reading
Color photo looking north up the Hollywood Freeway through the Cahuenga Pass from the Pilgrimage Bridge, Los Angeles, 1952
If only the Hollywood Freeway was still like it was when this photo was taken in 1952. We’re looking north through the Cahuenga Pass (on the left are parts of the freeway is still under construction) when there were still … Continue reading
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Cahuenga Pass when it was just one road and a streetcar track, Hollywood, 1920
Between the Hollywood Freeway and Cahuenga Blvd, these days LA motorists have more than a dozen lanes to drive in when coming and going through the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood. This photo shows, however, that in 1920, Angelenos had two … Continue reading
A caravan of Woody wagons heading north on the Hollywood Freeway through Cahuenga Pass, Burbank, California, circa 1942
Here we have a line of cars heading north on the Hollywood Freeway through Cahuenga Pass near the Barham exit in Burbank. But on closer inspection, we can see the cars on the two left lanes are all Woody wagons. … Continue reading
Construction of the San Diego 405 Freeway through Sepulveda Pass, Los Angeles, 1956
In my first job in LA, I drove from the San Fernando Valley to LA International Airport and back via the San Diego 405 Freeway. And every morning at 6.30am driving south through the Sepulveda Pass, the traffic would already … Continue reading