A vanished city lives again...

Saturday, November 7, 2009

In only 30 years...

Cahuenga Pass, 1911:


Courtesy U.S.C. Digital Library.


Cahuenga Boulevard, 1941:


Courtesy U.S.C. Digital Library.


All this change in only 30 years! Not as much change since then, though; the Hollywood Freeway today still follows basically the same path as this old road. It's really something to see Cahuenga Pass when it was only a dirt road traversed by horse teams, though. It's amazing to think that was less than 100 years ago. Only 1-1/2 normal human lifetimes, and Cahuenga Pass is almost unrecognizable from what it originally was...

 

1 comments:

Pascal Jim said...

In the distant photo, a lonely Pacific electric Red Car from the Valley en route to Los Angeles.

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