[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8205043]That's a much needed improvement
Handsome Stranger.
So I take it this slide is Ektachrome
as well.
EBAY
The grand old Richfield Oil tower is unfortunately just out of the photo on the left. Richfield was my favorite "noirish" L.A. building. It was especially magnificent at night, with the "oil derrick" spire lit up. Almost 380 feet to the top of the spire. Second in height to City Hall in the '50s. A pity the ARCO towers project couldn't have built around it & preserved it, but it was viewed as an aged relict (as were all the Victorian neighborhoods on Bunker Hill), so it was torn down in 1968/69. "Progress"? Thankfully many of the 'noirish" buildings around Broadway survive. Eastern Columbia is great. Like someone said, freeway medians were quite primitive and inadequate before the 1960s and 70s.