This photo is why we need a time travel machine. I’d happily spend a day wandering Hollywood Blvd in 1935 checking out all these beautiful stores. Look at the detailing along the roof line and around the windows, and those cute little Juliet balconies. And I love the variety of stores: movie house, yarn store, optometrist (since 1887!), café, theatre tickets seller, knitting store, shoe store. I know they didn’t have penicillin, effective dental anesthetics, or non-stick frypans back then, but still, an afternoon strolling down this street sounds good to me.
Los Angeles Theatres on Facebook says: “That theater on the left, the Studio, would become the Colony in 1936 and ended up being called the Holly. The space is now Harold’s Chicken & Bar.”
This is how that block looked in May 2024:
Bride of Frankenstein is playing across the street, reflected in the yarn shop windows.
I am with you, Martin. Would have loved to stroll that street and do some window shopping! Thank you for sharing!
Monica’s Cafe, at 6517, was previously Taylors Cafe in 1930*. (*Based upon a map that compiled known information.)
IIRC, Gittelson Bros. are known for creating some of those miniature golf courses including the one east of Western (about Hobart) which was later captured in scenes from The Day of the Locust (geez, wasn’t the lately departed great Donald Sutherland in that one too?).