Vintage Hollywoodland by Night
Lake Hollywood and Hollywoodland, Circa 1925/Courtesy Tommy Dangcil
From Tommy Dangcil's postcard collection comes this magnificent view of Hollywoodland and Lake Hollywood by night. Its date is obvious from the handful of houses sprinkling the hills: no later than 1925. At that point, Hollywoodland was just two years old, and what houses existed were newly built. In the coming decades, hundreds of new houses would spring up in Holllywoodland, but the contours of the land would remain the same. Also unchanged is Lake Hollywood, whose shape was determined by the canyon--Holly Canyon--that was flooded for its construction.