One response to “Grauman’s Chinese Theatre forecourt during the engagement of “Trader Horn”, June 1931”

1. Charles R Harris says:

   October 6, 2017 at 8:10 am

   Wonderful memories of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. One of the most memorable is about the summer of 1957 when I was assistant weather officer at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, my mother’s sister and her husband, a Navy chief, were living in a place right on the beach in Del Mar that I had found for them. We convinced my mother to fly out from Tennessee. We all went to Los Angeles for the day and with my 35mm camera I had just purchased at the Exchange at NAS Miramar, I took pictures in Beverly Hills, but the greatest was the one of my mother standing in front of one of the Chinese statuary in front of the Grauman’s entrance. She was beaming which showed us all that she had at least for a while gotten over her great fear of flying.
   From my earliest recollections, my father had instilled in me a great love of “the flicks.” I knew about PickFair almost before I could pronounce the word. Many happy Sunday afternoons foot racing with my father up North Monroe Street to the Palace Theater on Main Street in Newbern for a matinee where about 35 years earlier my father’s father had a grocery store. T. H. Harris and Son – Plain and Fancy Groceries – Drink Harris Pride Coffee.
   Oh, and Big Charlie almost always let me win the Sunday afternoon footrace.

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