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Originally Posted by Engineeral

Another Pacific Electric employees' magazine front page, from the January, 1946, issue. The information from the inside of the magazine says: "COVER PICTURE — Santa Claus Lane, 1945, was a beautiful example of the art of Hollywood lighting engineers. Photographer Harley B. Talbott made this time exposure from the top of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel one cold December night. The camera was looking east on Hollywood Boulevard. One of PE's main transfer points, Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, is near the foreground."



Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/pe-mag-1946-01-jan

Some prominent buildings still stand. The photographer took the picture from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel which is intact at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. The building with the illuminated sign "Barker Bros Hollywood" is today the home of the Disney "El Capitan" movie theater at 6838 Hollywood Boulevard, The Hotel Drake building is now owned by the Scientology organization at 6724, and the white building on the left, with the tower, is the Hollywood First National Building at 6777 (at Highland Avenue).

Barker Brothers was a first class furniture store for decades. We shopped there one day in 1959 before seeing The Young Philadelphians at the Paramount (now the El Capitan - again). Loge seats were 60 cents.