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Glamour girls “helping” to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd across from Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, late 1945

Posted on December 20, 2024 by

This photo of glamour girls “helping” to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd illustrates something I don’t think I ever quite realized: how big those holiday season decorations were. With actual humans for comparison, they were much bigger … Continue reading →

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Color photo looking past a 1949 Buick across Hollywood Blvd to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre

Posted on November 14, 2024 by

Here’s an image that I don’t think has been posted online before. I glimpsed it while watching a reel on Instagram about a guy who discovered a box of old slides. I took a screenshot, enhanced the image and this … Continue reading →

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Movie fans gather on bleachers in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for the 17th Academy Awards, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, March 15, 1945

Posted on November 5, 2024 by

In this photo, we see a large group of excited movie fans crowded into bleachers set up outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. To accommodate them, the Radlicks soda fountain had to fold up their awning. The date was … Continue reading →

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Aerial photo looking north from south of Sunset Blvd across Hollywood to the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, 1932

Posted on October 3, 2024 by

In this remarkably crisp aerial shot from 1932, we’re looking north from south of Sunset Blvd across Hollywood to the Hollywood Hills. They were still sparsely populated with lots of room for more and more homes. The image is so … Continue reading →

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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre during the run of “The Seven Year Itch”, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, summer 1955

Posted on June 29, 2024 by

Here we have several Hollywood icons all in one photo. This is Grauman’s Chinese Theatre during the 6-week run of 20th Century-Fox’s CinemaScope production of “The Seven Year Itch” in June and July of 1955. The shot of Marilyn Monroe … Continue reading →

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People browse the footprints and handprints in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, June 15, 1951

Posted on May 30, 2024 by

I do so love atmospheric nighttime shots in Hollywood—especially ones with blurred movement capturing the improvised nature of the image. This one was taken in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre as people were browsing the footprints and handprints immortalized … Continue reading →

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Looking across the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre past the box office to Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, May 1936

Posted on April 13, 2024 by

The Life magazine photographer who snapped this image was standing in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, whose Chinese-themed box office that stood at the edge of the sidewalk. Past it is Hollywood Blvd, and on the far left, we … Continue reading →

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A statue of a man on a horse near Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles advertises “The Gaucho” playing at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, circa 1927

Posted on March 21, 2024 by

Film promoters like Sid Grauman would resort to anything to encourage people to come see films at his Chinese Theater—including a statue. The movie he was advertising was Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s “The Gaucho” set in Argentina. It had its world … Continue reading →

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Sid Grauman outside his Chinese Theatre with a Cycloplane Trainer on display, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1930

Posted on March 10, 2024 by

Los Angeles’s most famous theater – Grauman’s Chinese – was named after its owner, Sid Grauman, who was a master of promotion. In this 1930 photo, we see him standing front of something that the sign to his right calls … Continue reading →

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Promotional advertisement by the Hollywood Blvd Association, 1928

Posted on January 25, 2024 by

I could find very little information about this promotional advertisement for the merchants of Hollywood Blvd, other than it was placed by the Hollywood Blvd Association at 6605 Hollywood Blvd. The person who sent it to me says it’s circa … Continue reading →

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