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May 2009

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 – Dream Factories

Just Hollywood –

Hollywood Postmark / Are you ready… detail of Nancy Sinatra mural, Highland Avenue, Hollywood
Abandoned recording studio, Melrose at Gower, Hollywood

A local business –

Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood

Where Fred and Ginger danced in all those musicals, the old RKO studios, Melrose at Gower –

The old RKO studios, Melrose at Gower

The legend –

Domenico Neri bronze of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood Museum, Highland Avenue, Hollywood
Domenico Neri bronze of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood Museum, Highland Avenue, Hollywood
Domenico Neri bronze of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood Museum, Highland Avenue, Hollywood
Domenico Neri bronze of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood Museum, Highland Avenue, Hollywood

And right above the legend –

Signage at Mel's Drive-In, Hollywood
Signage at Mel's Drive-In, Hollywood
Stickers in utility box, Melrose at Windsor, Hollywood

Well, it's been real.  And yes, that's the late Ernie Kovacs – in 1962, after leaving a party hosted by Milton Berle, he made the mistake of trying to light a cigar while driving his Corvair station wagon in light rain at night, and wrapped it around a pole at Beverly Glen and Santa Monica Boulevard.  Jack Lemmon had been at the party, and Lemmon identified the body.  That was long ago, and this is an old radio shop down on Melrose Avenue near Gower.  Radios used to have tubes.  And the past is odd out here.

Ernie Kovacs

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto.  The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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