This is the sort of photo that I love. A shot taken from up in the Hollywood hills overlooking a nighttime Hollywood, its glowing lights illuminating the brightest and shiniest, while its shadows cloaks its secrets and shame.
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This is the kind of shot that takes you way back, even if you weren’t around in the Golden Age, but knowing all of our beloved stars from those years saw things as we do now in these pics makes us feel even closer to them and the times.
Thanks, Martin, for this beautiful shot of Hollywood from long ago – but so close to our hearts.
Jean
Exactly, Jean! This is the sort of photo that makes me pine for a Hollywood I never got to experience…except in my imagination and my books, I guess!
Hi – reminds me of the favored place for “necking” which was Mulholland Drive. Ah, memories! Love, L
P28 by Bob Plunkett of Los Angeles dates about 1943 and a later number photo has detail gone after 1943. So, it seems likely that P44 should place at about that year. Logically, there should be nothing in this image that was built after that time. Is this Franklin Avenue below?