Vintage Los Angeles--Sunset Strip in the 1940s

Courtesy of Vintage Los Angeles, one of my favorite online resources, take a drive down Sunset Boulevard around the time that Rita Hayworth filmed Gilda at Columbia Studios.  Columbia was located at Sunset and Gower in the 1940s, so this is a stretch of the street that you would indeed share with Rita and other stars.  I love to think of them driving to work at the studios when I watch this.
Of course I love their inclusion of a Hitchcockian soundtrack, too.  
ABOVE:  The Palladium theater on Sunset Boulevard between Gower and Vine c. 1940s