Franklin and Vine, 1890s, just a couple blocks north of Hollywood and Vine. Hollywood Blvd—then called Prospect Avenue, a graded dirt road—was already there, but nothing else made it past the 1920s, when Hollywood’s Arcadian past disappeared under studio lots and pavement. This view looking south was all city in a generation or two, the last of the bean fields a couple miles on past Melrose went under the bulldozer in the 1930s. You walk these streets now—well, drive these streets, no one walks here—and you can’t imagine it was all farmland as far as you could see.