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Old Posted Jun 12, 2009, 10:18 AM
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The Academy Awards at the Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1951:


The fans across the street:

From LAPL.org

Following photos from uncanny.net
Hollywood and Western, early 1950s


Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 1954


Echo Park, 1950s


The PE streetcars went in between houses in Hollywood in private rights-of-way...


If you drive to Sunset and Gardner now, where the Moun of Tunis Moroccan restaurant is, you can see the old diagonal right-of-way, which is now a driveway to the parking lot of the Moun of Tunis restaurant.

1950s:


Sunset and Gardner:


At Gardner St.:


Santa Monica Blvd. and Palm, West Hollywood:


Same location, but much earlier, probably early 1920s; the south side of Santa Monica Blvd. hadn't been built yet (wasn't built until 1928), so two-way traffic went on the north side of the PE tracks:
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