It's been a while since I've commented, and I'm coming back with nothing but a bunch of random observations:

I really like the unusual architecture of the building at the right, with the two faces angled slightly differently. I wonder if it still exists (but not quite enough so to investigate myself).

I see a few notable characters in the streets:

Charlie Chaplin is in the group with three others on the sidewalk to the left. Although I'll admit that maybe half of the guys in a street photo from this era look like Charlie Chaplin. Probably an illusion, but it looks like his right foot is turned backwards. Or maybe it is, as he's pivoting to join them from the opposite direction.

To the left of that group and headed towards us is Winston Churchill. Only I don't think he was that tall.

Several steps ahead of Winnie is Al Capone, passing by a magnolia grandiflora that could possibly still be there.

And in the far distance, standing mysteriously in the center of the street, Alfred Hitchcock is making his cameo. [Click to enlarge]   

So much fascinating detail in this photo. I could go on and on. But will finish with the observation of the street workers waist-deep in the hole they've dug.

Three of the buildings still survive and the tiny building squeezed between the angled large structures is either heavily modified or replaced (assuming it's not part of the building on either side of it.)

Scroll down the street to see a few more buildings that still survive, some of them still sporting their 1906 or earlier trim!

This scene - still intact (the parts you'd probably expect, anyway) - has a deceptively rustic setting