Sure, the “Hollywood Renaissance” is bringing on a flood of trendy clubs and upscale clothing emporia, chasing out the tchotchke shops for disappointed tourists, the tranny shoe-and-schmatta stores, and the tattoo-and-piercing parlors. But so what? From it’s earliest days, Hollywood was a magnet for filmmakers and filmgoers, and This…
…used to look like this:
I always thought the Fox was the ugliest damn theater on Hollywood Boulevard, until I saw how it looked when it was built in the early 30’s (and well into the 50’s…check out the marquee on the right.)
Again. This…
Evolved from this…
If Darwin was here right now, I’d give him such a pinch…!
Oh, yeah, wasn’t that a porn theatre & then some kind of church, w/ a hot dog stand next to the entrance? Between the fanny-pack sporting “visitors” during the daylight hours, the binge-drinking twenty-nothings staggering the streets at night & my being too depressed to work @ the FedExKinko’s on Vine any more, I don’t get out of WeHo & up to the Blvd. like I used to. Ah, nostalgia.
Left by M. Bouffant on May 30th, 2007