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Originally Posted by HossC
I thought that this underpass picture looked familiar, but I can't see any previous postings. Maybe it just looks like other underpasses built around the same time. The crossing was previously at grade.
Photograph article dated September 7, 1948 partially reads, "State engineers working on the Valley's $2,000,000 continuation of the Hollywood freeway turned to paving work today after opening the Lankershim boulevard underpass in time for Labor Day traffic....Opening of the underpass marks the first time automobiles have passed over a part of the Hollywood freeway extension which will eventually provide a highspeed route from Cahuenga pass to Valley points. Pacific Electric trains have been crossing over the grade separation bridge for weeks, while workmen paved lanes of Lankershim boulevard into Cahuenga boulevard. Eventually the freeway traffic heading to and from the Valley will pass over the heads of motorist on Lankershim boulevard on divided lanes bordering the P. E. tracks."
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Here's the view looking in the opposite direction...
Looking south on Lankershim Boulevard, 1949
Looking south down Lankershim Boulevard towards the Lankershim Bridge and Tunnel, just north of where Cahuenga and Ventura Boulevards meet. Some homes are seen above a Foster and Kleiser billboard advertising the 1949 Ford automobile (left of center), and a few storefronts are present along Lankershim (right). Photograph dated June 23, 1949.
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And just for fun, another shot of the same intersection (before the overpass)...
Eddie Albert at the intersection of Cahuenga and Lankershim Boulevards, 1946
A shirtless Eddie Albert out for a spin on his (or more likely a studio owned) bike at the intersection of Lankershim Boulevard and Cahuenga/Ventura Boulevard. During WWII, at Tarawa, as a Bosun's Mate piloting a landing craft, he repeatedly took his boat back into the shoals, into the continuing gunfire, to retrieve Marines in the chest deep water. Some reports credit him with saving perhaps as many as fifty men. For all his good-natured screen persona, in real life a stud.