Yesterday, I featured a photo of the Hollywood Freeway taken from the Pilgrimage Bridge in 1952. While researching the history of the Pilgrimage Play, I came across this photo of the stage of the outdoor theater where the play was mounted. After the original wooden amphitheater burned down in a brush fire in 1929, the place was rebuilt – this time, sensibly, with concrete – to resemble the gates of Jerusalem and the play went on until a lawsuit in 1964 forced its closure due to its religious nature. A 44-year run is pretty good by anyone’s standards.

This is how the stage of the Ford Amphitheater looked after its 2017 renovation.