With Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story” currently in theaters, I thought it a good time to post this colorful shot of when the original version played Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. It had its splashy premiere on December 13, 1961 ahead of an astoundingly record-breaking run of 57 weeks (it’s still Grauman’s longest run) that ended on January 17, 1963! The theaters marquee is advertising how the movie won 10 Oscars. The ceremony took place on April 9, 1962 so I’m guessing this photo was taken during the summer of 1962.
This is how the western end of Grauman’s now looks (February 2021) The marquee is gone which leaves that rather nice archway visible.
Early Mercedes, probably a W112 “Heckflosse” (“Fintail”) 220S. Interesting bit of trivia: Unlike the big, gaudy fins on US cars, the Mercedes fins were actually windtunnel-designed… 🙂
Interesting! When did take the Americans to start to windtunnel test their vehicles.
The 1975 fuel crisis, which led to today’s “used bar of soap” designs. 😛
Chrysler began design testing in a wind tunnel at least as early as 1930 with the help of the Wright Brothers.
Kind of feels like the opening of a Bond film…004 and 005 are standing by the edge while the guy with a long silencer drives by for the quick hit. What’s really odd is three guys have white spots on their noses…sort of like those little nose covers to prevent sunburns.