ETA: I put the "angry" smiley on here just in reference to Flickr, and definitely not in regard to
Martin's post generally. Apparently if you add an emoticon here it comes at the top of your post.
I don't think it was ever Beverly Boulevard, but it was possibly Beverly Drive. I know personally of one family who lived a little north of Sunset, close to Lexington, and back in the day they could ride their horses all the way home, where the horses were presumably stabled somewhere on the same property. Beverly Drive/Sunset Boulevard is just about within touching distance of the actual hills anyway, so it would make sense.
Actually, I just went and looked at the area in both Google Earth and Bing Maps; now it's all coming back to me. I grew up a couple of miles farther north, on Cherokee, but I remember now that there was supposed to be a former bridle path that you could see starting south from Lindacrest Drive, just off of Coldwater Canyon Drive. By the time this was pointed out to me, in the 1960s, nobody had ridden horses on it in decades, but the path remained clearly visible. I'm pretty sure this path must have led to the one along Sunset Boulevard, without doubt meeting it somewhere near the BH hotel.
Apparently some traces of it are still visible in the area just south of Lindacrest Drive:
Well. I was going to post the URL of an image right here, but Flickr seems to have gone and got itself all pear shaped. It now looks completely different and I can't get to the link where you can choose differently sized versions of your pictures. Does anyone know how to do this?
ETA: Here's the photo:
Google Maps
Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull
I suspect this photo may have been posted here before but I couldn't find anything when I searched.
It’s hard to believe that there was ever a bridle path along Beverly Boulevard in Beverly Hills, let alone that it was still there in the 1940s. This shot was taken in 1942. But does anyone know which stretch of Beverly Blvd this path was? And/or does anybody have a map of the entire bridle path "from mountains to sea"?
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