San Francisco's Sunset Boulevard: no Norma Desmond, but from the 1930s to the 1970s, it did have Soap Box Derbys.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Sep 27, 2013
(above) Sunset & Yorba,
Sep 11, 1931
View north on Sunset Boulevard from Yorba, no houses, large sand dune on left between Vicente and Wawona. [Sunset Blvd. N of Sloat ] 8 x 10) [dpwbook46 dpwA3127]
There are some replicas of famous French buildings on the West side. Nicole & Arnold look at the Koshland House on Washington Street, modeled on Le Petit Trianon. (Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast Sep 2, 2023)