Los Angeles

Photos by Will T Rogers, Queens NY

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Paramount Pictures at 5555 Melrose Avenue

 

Things are a little different here

 

Hollywood old and new

 

View from hotel; sign built in 1923 on Mount Lee, Hollywood Hills (and improved at later times)

 

At right is Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard (actors' footprints here)

 

Rooftop art in Hollywood

 

Yes, that's my name!

 

Beverly Hills Hotel, Sunset Boulevard opened 1912 Mediterranean Revival (tree across street)

 

Center of Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard

 

"Tree of knowledge" at UCLA near Beverly Hills

 

Downtown LA

 

 

The Hillview Hollywood Apartments at 6533 Hollywood Blvd built in 1917 to house actors

 

Parking your bicycle can be a challenge

 

Angels Flight connecting Hill Street and California Plaza

 

Angels Flight, a narrow gauge funicular railway in Bunker Hill District

 

Brown Derby Restaurant operated on Wilshire Boulevard until 1985 (anonymous web image)

 

City Hall

 

One of the nicest racetracks in the nation, Santa Anita

 

Not all racetracks have mountains in the background

 

Photographers at the ready for the famous "Santa Anita Derby" race held once each year

 

 

This is the way to view the race (notice the dog in the front seat)

 

“Da da da, di-di-di, di-di-di, da da da daaa! … Da da da, di-di-di, di-di-di, da da da daaa!”

And the horses are on the track!

 

“AND THEY’RE OFF! … GAL FRIDAY JUMPS OUT TO AN EARLY LEAD, FOLLOWED CLOSELY

BY NOT-FOR-HIRE, WITH NONCHALANT RUNNING THIRD! …  AS THEY PASS THE QUARTER POLE,

GAL FRIDAY NOW OPENS UP A TWO-LENGTH LEAD. NONCHALALANT MOVES TO SECOND POSITION

WHILE NOT-FOR HIRE IS FADING FAST INTO THE PACK! …”

 

 

And the winner is ...

 

Girls selling expensive ice cream after the race

 

Santa Monica Pier

 

LA girls

 

Restaurant neighborhood Sunset Plaza on Sunset Boulevard

 

Sunset Plaza train restaurant

 

Sunset Strip Saddle Ranch Chop House

 

I've beeen to the Coffee Bean

 

Also in Sunset Plaza

 

Fire hydrants with personalities

 

AMTRAK Station Los Angeles

 

When horses helped put out fires!

 

LAPD headquarters

 

Los Angeles robin on park bench

 

This is where I stayed, a retro 1920s styled hotel, 5162 Melrose Avenue

 

 

The hotel in 1927 (picture on wall of my room)

 

Hotel room seen through kaleidoscope :)

 

Tiffany Ceiling lamp?

 

Dozens of large vintage pictures line the hotel corridors

 

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1940s-1950s star Ava Gardener

 

Cary Grant and Greta Garbo

 

Casablanca

 

Getting around by bus in the 1930s

 

Getting around on a trolley car or streetcar

 

Death Valley CA, a little further away from Los Angeles

 

 

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell

 

Katherine Hepburn

 

Marilyn and Marlon

 

The Robe was 20th Century Fox's first CinemaScope movie, December 1953

 

What was Bogart saying?

 

 

Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr

 

Goodbye Hollywood