I love the atmosphere caught in this 1933 shot of the Easter Sunday service taking place at the Hollywood Bowl. I love how the photographer went all the way past the trees at the very back to give us an idea of not just how big the Bowl is, but how it became a beacon of light. The caption in blue says the Pilgrim Play Theatre is in the background though I’m not sure exactly which speck of light it was. We now know it as the John Anson Ford Amphitheater but it started out as a venue where Christine Wetherill Stevenson’s “The Pilgrimage Play” was performed every summer from 1920 to 1929, until the original structure was destroyed by a brush fire in October 1929. The new theater was made of concrete, which is what the people in this photo would have seen in the distance that night.