{"id":30940,"date":"2024-12-20T07:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=30940"},"modified":"2024-12-20T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:45:46","slug":"glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/12\/20\/glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamour girls \u201chelping\u201d to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd across from Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, late 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30941\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/12\/20\/glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945-2\/glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?fit=999%2C999&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"999,999\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Glamour girls \u201chelping\u201d to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd across from Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, late 1945\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30941\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Glamour girls \u201chelping\u201d to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd across from Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, late 1945\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-Christmas-trees-on-Hollywood-Blvd-across-from-Graumans-Chinese-Theater-Hollywood-late-1945.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This photo of glamour girls \u201chelping\u201d to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd illustrates something I don\u2019t think I ever quite realized: how big those holiday season decorations were. With actual humans for comparison, they were much bigger than I\u2019ve ever thought. We can see that with Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre in the background, they were on the south side of Hollywood Blvd, and from the angle, I\u2019d say they were at around the Orange Dr. corner. The Hitchcock movie \u201cSpellbound\u201d was playing at the time, which dates this photo to late 1945, the first Christmas after the war. (\u201cSpellbound\u201d played Grauman\u2019s for 5 weeks from November 9 to December 13)<\/p>\n<p>Bill C. says: &#8220;It might be interesting to note that the ladies helping with the decorating were showgirls from the Earl Carroll Theatre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel N. says: &#8220;It should be mentioned this is the first reappearance of these trees after the war. They were not allowed under dim out conditions 1942-44.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is roughly how that view looked in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30942\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/12\/20\/glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945-2\/july-2024-15\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?fit=999%2C704&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"999,704\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"July 2024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?fit=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?fit=640%2C451&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30942\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?resize=640%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/July-2024-1.png?resize=768%2C541&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo of glamour girls \u201chelping\u201d to put up electrified Christmas trees on Hollywood Blvd illustrates something I don\u2019t think I ever quite realized: how big those holiday season decorations were. With actual humans for comparison, they were much bigger &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2024\/12\/20\/glamour-girls-helping-to-put-up-electrified-christmas-trees-on-hollywood-blvd-across-from-graumans-chinese-theater-hollywood-late-1945-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,21,8,15,31],"class_list":["post-30940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-graumans-chinese-theater","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-blvd","tag-theaters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-832","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30944,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions\/30944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}