[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

I'd be surprised if the location of these shots was actually even near the intersection of Wilshire & McCadden. Hancock Park houses are generally much bigger than those in the pictures. The picture below is indeed of Wilshire & McCadden, looking southeast. (The gabled house was at the SE corner of Wilshire & Longwood, not in Hancock Park proper, but of the general size of HP houses.) The image was lumped with those of the children in one of several batches on the USC site illustrating traffic hazards and solutions...the now-closed subway entrances are seen on either side of Wilshire here.

USCDL

Another set of traffic hazards/solutions is here.

I don't know about 1931 but those cross-street subways are way too dangerous for today's uncivilized society. Today they are the perfect place to be raped or robbed.