The first Hollywood Bowl shell designed by Lloyd Wright in 1927
Ever since it opened in 1922, the shell at the Hollywood Bowl has undergone several incarnations. For the first five years, there wasn’t any shell at all. Then, in 1927, Frank Lloyd Wright’s son Lloyd designed the shell we see in this photo. This stepped pyramidal design was made out of leftover lumber from the 1922 Pickford-Fairbanks studio production of “Robin Hood.” It didn’t last long, though. By the following year, Wright had replaced it with an early version of the now-familiar circular shape.
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Thanks for the info. I had never seen this version. I’ve always considered Lloyd Wright a victim of his father’s fame. He was a very talented artist himself. I was married in his Wayfarer’s Chapel in PV and live now near one of his homes on Ogden.
I agree, William. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for him to toil in the long shadow of his father.