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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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I'm still a bit confused ProphetM...but I certainly think you're in the right area.
google aerial
That said, I find this area of Echo Park extremely interesting. I've saved a lot of images of the area on an old CD.
Time to post them I think. 
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I think that the streetcar tracks in the picture provide us with a valuable clue. Looking at the 1921 Baist Map (plates 28 and 30), only 3 thoroughfares in the area had tracks- Glendale Blvd/Allesandro St., Sunset Blvd., and Echo Park Ave.
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...&c=-1&i=1&r=12
Looking at this 1923 aerial of the Mack Sennett Edendale studios (centered on Glendale Blvd.), I think that the street in our photo is too narrow to be Glendale. Also, the website below states that the Echo Park Ave. line had the quirk of being single tracked (as in our picture), while I'm assuming that the other streets, main PE trunk lines, would have been double tracked.
It's a tenuous guess based on assumptions, but Echo Park Ave. seems to make sense as the setting of this photo. The 3 structures at the corner of Echo Park and Morton on the 1921 Baist map seem to fit with the houses in our photo, but I can't make a positive match.
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/echopark.htm
I found this website about the Echo Park streetcar line- some rather interesting stories!
As an aside, I'm sure that this has been covered on this thread earlier, but one of the main studio buildings in that 1923 aerial, with "Mack Sennett studios" on the roof, still graces Glendale Blvd. as a Public Storage building. Many Keystone Kops comedies were filmed on Glendale Blvd and in the general Edendale/Echo Park/Silver Lake area.
http://www.silverlake.org/about_silv...tt_studios.htm
A little more history about that building.
Sorry about the lack of pictures- I'm new to posting, and as I figure it all out, I'll try to make my posts more elaborate. I found this thread a month ago and have been very awed and impressed by all of your strong work and by all the amazing research behind the posts! This is the kind of forum I had been seeking for so long, and I'm so glad that I found it! It may take a while to get through the 600+ pages, maybe a few all-nighters may do the trick =)