two aerials one looking east from 1939, the other looking west from 1953.
in the 1939 aerial you can clearly see the old los angeles school building with the vacant area to the north and west of it, where it was proposed to relocate the school so it wouldn't be lost to the freeway construction.
in the 1953 building, the freeway is in place, and the school building is now gone forever. oh and that vacant space to the north and west of where the school once was?.......why a parking lot of course..........................
Source:
USC Digital Archive
Source:
USC Digital Archive
you can see what was probably the last remaining days of court circle
in this 1958 photo you can see that the west side of court circle (lower left of the photo), was actually spared from being obliterated by the hollywood freeway.....interesting
Source:
USC Digital Archive