Hollywood Trees . . . There Actually Were Some Once Upon A Time

Hollywood looked like a sleepy little village when this photo looking west on Hollywood Boulevard was made in 1922. The cross street is Cahuenga Boulevard and the building housing the Kress Drugstore on the right is actually still there today.

That pleasant grove of trees down the block, however, is gone. Such overly abundant trees have been replaced by city mandated 14/block trees growing through holes (trip hazards) in the concrete sidewalk, thus making room for more economically beneficial space utilization. The Hollywood hills in the background of this photo remain, perhaps because nobody has figured out a cheap way to move them out of the way for more economically beneficial space utilization.