101: looking NE near Reseda & Burbank Blvds. 

The freeway is where some of us spend a couple of hours a day. In our imagination, we speed along. In reality, we are crawling slowly or not moving at all.

A split second still photo of the traffic density can deceive.A 1963 photo of the Hollywood Freeway may provoke a nostalgia for a less crowded time. But the 2005 photos of the Ventura seem to also show a smoothly functioning highway.

Which is a lie? A memory or a photograph? Sometimes they both are.