In this photo of Hollywood Boulevard looking east we can see that a movie called “Why Men Leave Home” is playing the Hollywood Theatre at 6764 Hollywood Blvd near Highland. It was a Louis B. Mayer Productions movie that came out in March 1924 (and starred Lewis Stone who would later play Mickey Rooney’s father in MGM’s Andy Hardy series.) The theater is still around…sort of. It’s now the venue for the Guinness Book of World Records. In the background we can see the Security Trust & Savings Bank building is going up. It’s still there too and Raymond Chandler would later choose it the office of his fictional detective Philip Marlow in “The Long Goodbye.”
Showing this photo of the Hollywood thearer reminded me of, back in 1948 or 49, one night I went with my parents to that theater and when we came out, it was snowing large snow flakes. No better place to see a sight like this than on Hollywood Blvd. at night. I remember that I ran around grabbing at the flakes as they fell. Peple were having a great time with such an unusual happening. What a sight. Next day the ground was covered with about six incheses of snow, which melted by the afternoon. Aren’t memories wonderful?
Of course, there was NO better place to see large snowflakes unusually falling than on the well-backlit storefronts and streetlights of Hollywood Blvd. What a magical memory. Thanks for that.
In this photo of Hollywood Boulevard looking east we can see that a movie called “Why Men Leave Home” is playing the Hollywood Theatre at 6764 Hollywood Blvd near Highland. It was a Louis B. Mayer Productions movie that came out in March 1924 (and starred Lewis Stone who would later play Mickey Rooney’s father in MGM’s Andy Hardy series.) The theater is still around…sort of. It’s now the venue for the Guinness Book of World Records. In the background we can see the Security Trust & Savings Bank building is going up. It’s still there too and Raymond Chandler would later choose it the office of his fictional detective Philip Marlow in “The Long Goodbye.”
Showing this photo of the Hollywood thearer reminded me of, back in 1948 or 49, one night I went with my parents to that theater and when we came out, it was snowing large snow flakes. No better place to see a sight like this than on Hollywood Blvd. at night. I remember that I ran around grabbing at the flakes as they fell. Peple were having a great time with such an unusual happening. What a sight. Next day the ground was covered with about six incheses of snow, which melted by the afternoon. Aren’t memories wonderful?
What a wonderful memory, Richard. That would have been from 1949 – see https://martinturnbull.com/2014/12/06/los-angeles-city-hall-surrounded-by-snow-1949/
Of course, there was NO better place to see large snowflakes unusually falling than on the well-backlit storefronts and streetlights of Hollywood Blvd. What a magical memory. Thanks for that.