Hollywood , 1965 : the futuristicCinerama Domehas just tinge down on Sunset Boulevard . This starship of a picture show field of operations — built in 1963 to showcase the three - projector Cinerama outgrowth — seems to bob amid a sea of open parking . On the leftfield , a new 22 - story office tower rises from a concrete shopping center at the recess of Sunset and Vine . by from these highlights , it ’s a rather bleak picture . It ’s a landscape pay to the automobile .
But that landscape painting has changed a quite a bit in the intervene 49 years :
Using the magic of Google Earth , I ’ve ( roughly ) recreate the view today . Gone are the expansive parking destiny , replaced by new commercial-grade bodily structure . The Arclight dramatics composite surrounds Welton Becket ’s Cinerama Dome , now considered a modernist classic . Offices have become apartments inside the Sunset Vine Tower , where the empty plaza has yield means to sidewalk - facing retail . And outside the flesh , behind the vantage point , the 1999 opening of the Metro Red Line ’s Hollywood / Vine station has injected new pedestrian activity into the area . Hollywood is by no mean a model of urban perfection , but the alteration is dumfounding nonetheless .
Below arena reverse gear - angle shotfrom 1965 and its 2014 equivalent weight . [ Photo Collection – Los Angeles Public Library / Google Earth ]
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