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A Taste of Hollywood at Oscar Time - Old Movie Palaces

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The Venue, the Kodak Theater at Hollywood and Highland Center

The Street Scene

Old Movie Palaces

Hollywood History

Hollywood Grit

The roof of the Chinese Theater from the balcony at the Kodak –

Across from the Kodak, the restored El Capitan –

The best old movie theater - Fox, Westwood Village - you can imagine Rudolf Valentino rolling up in his favorite convertible, his cream-colored Bugatti, to see his last silent film, then driving home to Whitely Heights to his Falcon's Lair, to die. (Whitely Heights is in the hills just behind Musso and Frank shown on the previous page – down the hill is Hollywood Boulevard, walk just up the hill and through the residents' gate and over the rise and you're at the Hollywood Bowl, the top rear seats – and Whitely Heights is where the likes of Maurice Chevalier lived when out here.) But Rudolf Valentino died in 1926 and this was built in 1932, so you probably should imagine Joan Leslie at the Fox Westwood autographing this and that for people on the sidewalk in the forties. It's a reminder of when the movies were important to folks, not corporate subsidiaries churning out cookie-cutter remakes of second-rate television shows like Starsky and Hutch.

If you use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me.

There is a copyright notice at the bottom of this page, of course.

These were shot with a Nikon D70 – lens AF-5 Nikor 18-70mm 1:35-4.5G ED

They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

The original large-format raw files are available upon request.

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