We went looking for a Los Angeles street scene for today’s carspotting exercise simply because we haven’t ventured to the City of Angels in a while, and we couldn’t have found a more L.A. photo than this press photo that The Old Motor ran a few years back and that is dated February 5, 1958. But where exactly was the photo taken? We know that Route 66 is now the 110 – a.k.a. the Arroyo Seco Parkway – and that if we’re looking northeast, toward Pasadena, then the only stretch of the 110 that Figueroa runs to the left of is north of what is now Interstate 5. A quick review of the overpasses over the 110 and we see only one that matches the one in the background – the Avenue 26 bridge – and indeed, the only left exit for Figueroa off the 100 is just south of that overpass. With the long lens, the photographer’s probably standing in Elysian Park, atop the tunnels that permit the 110 below the park. That said, what do you see here?
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