I don’t have a date for this photo of a uniformed greeter standing out front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel but judging from that gorgeous lettering used for the florist sign next door, I want to say this is 1930s or 40s. On the plus side, the Roosevelt is still with us (it opened in May of 1927), but the front of the hotel no longer looks as interesting as this. And they certainly no longer have a greeter out front. And if they did, the poor chap would bake in that heavy uniform!

As we can see from this view from January 2018, the front of the Roosevelt Hotel isn’t nearly so interesting these days: