I’ve been blogging about vintage photos of Hollywood for nearly a decade and naturally, a sizable percentage of them have been about Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. But yesterday, I had never come across anything about their doorman who was over seven feet tall. His name was Lock Martin and according to Kurt Wahlner from GraumansChinese.org he worked there circa 1943 to 1949. (This photo is circa 1949.) That’s a lot of ducking his head to walk through the door and bending down to deposit tickets in that wooden ticket stub bin in front of him. His other claim to fame is that the played Gort in 20th Century-Fox’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” which had a two-week run at Grauman’s in October 1951. It must have been a thrill for Lock to see himself up on the screen at the theater where he used to work.