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Looking north toward the Hollywood and Vine corner in color, circa mid 1950s
This shot looking north up Vine St toward Hollywood Boulevard was taken circa mid 1950s (the Capital Records building opened in 1956), when the streetcar still ran along Hollywood Blvd, airlines had ticketing offices outside the airport (that American Airlines … Continue reading
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Tagged Color photo, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Blvd, Night photo, Stores and Shopping
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Union 76 gas station, 1160 Westwood Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles, 1933
These days, all gas stations tend to look like each other. They’re a functional necessary evil in the modern world, but it wasn’t always like that, which this photo proves. This Union 76 gas station was at 1160 Westwood Blvd … Continue reading
The Tower Theatre, 111 N. Long Beach Blvd, Compton, California, August 1935.
I love shots like this one of the Tower Theatre at 111 N. Long Beach Blvd in Compton. When taken at night with all the lights on, they’re like beacons summoning us to dream. The two pictures playing that night—“The … Continue reading
Opening night at the Pacific Drive-In Theater, 10850 W. Pico Boulevard – the first drive-in theater in Los Angeles, September 9, 1934
Here we’re seeing the opening night of Los Angeles’s first drive-in theater, the Pacific Drive-in at 10850 W. Pico Boulevard, just south of Century City on September 9, 1934. We’re so used to drive-ins being part of our urban landscape … Continue reading
Book store open late at night, Weyburn Avenue, Westwood Village, Los Angeles, 1938
I don’t know where on Weyburn Ave in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles this bookshop stood, but they sure kept late hours. With the darkness of night encroaching from all sides and that sole streetlight burning like a … Continue reading
Loyola Theater marquee and facade, Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1972
I normally post photos of Los Angeles and Hollywood taken during the golden era (1927 to 1959, the same years that the Garden of Allah Hotel was open) but occasionally I find a photo that’s too gorgeous not to share. … Continue reading
Howard Hughes’s “Hell’s Angels” opens at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with 200 searchlights on May 24, 1930
Whenever I see a spectacular photo of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre that makes me go “Wow! Which premiere that was for?” almost invariably it turns out to be the taken the night of the spare-no-expense night that Howard Hughes’s “Hell’s Angels” … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerial photographs, Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Hollywood Blvd, Movie Premiere, Night photo
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A McDonnell’s drive-in carhop is on the job at the corner of Sunset Blvd and La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, circa 1930s
I love it when a place as every day as a drive-in restaurant gets a dramatic portrait. McDonnell’s was a chain of restaurants—both walk-in and drive-in—but of course the drive-ins with their 1930s neon lighting were the most photogenic. I … Continue reading
Night shot of a “Flying A” brand gas station in Los Angeles
I have neither a date nor a location for this “Flying A” brand gas station located somewhere in Los Angeles. But I do love the way it echoes the popular circular drive-in restaurants and the way it used light to … Continue reading
Fox Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles, 1941
Although Grauman’s Chinese Theatre got the lion’s share of glamorous Hollywood movie premieres, it’s hard to beat the Fox Carthay Circle Theatre for spectacular photos like this one taken in 1941. That soaring tower with the beacon on top, those … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century-Fox, Carthay Circle Theater, Movie Premiere, Night photo, Theaters
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