More eBay finds. Someone auctioned several original color slides showing Hollywood in the 1940s; here are ten of them. Bidding ended earlier this evening and most of the slides went for quite large sums of money.
1941: Hollywood Hotel
[source: eBay]
1941: Looking North on Highland Ave. from Hollywood Blvd.
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1948: Looking North on Highland Ave. toward Franklin Ave.
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1948: Intersection of Hollywood & Vine, looking Northeast.
[source: eBay]
1948: Fifth Church of Christ Scientist. (Anyone know where this was located?)
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1948: Hollywood Post Office, 1615 Wilcox Ave. (I would do unspeakable things in order to be granted ownership of any one of those cars.)
[source: eBay]
1948: The Brown Derby.
[source: eBay]
1948: Tom Breneman's on Vine St.
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1948: Looking North on Vine St. from Sunset Blvd.
[source: eBay]
1948: NBC's West Coast Radio City.
[source: eBay]
(Some of the experts here may notice minor anomalies in one or more of these images. Although I was careful in removing the seller's mark from them, a few were quite difficult and the results are less than perfect.)