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Thursday, June 4, 2009 – Daytime Nightlife
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Now that Hollywood's been revived – million dollar condos in all the historic buildings, new trendy hotels like W right at Hollywood and Vine, and now every high-end establishment you'd find in Vegas (and Cirque du Soleil soon to be in permanent residence at the Kodak Theater) – the place is getting strange. The seedy stuff is being crowded out, slowly but surely. By day, the place is still crowded with tourists from Iowa, but it's a different place at night – mostly expensive clubs for the pretty people and A-Listers. At night it's the only place to be.
But for those of us who have lived here for twenty years, and live in the daylight world, it's hard to get a handle on the New Hollywood. They took the old 1927 Rococo theater at 1735 North Vine, once home to the Lawrence Welk Show, and made it The Avalon Hollywood – DJ's from Paris and Berlin and all the Trance and Electronica stuff, and the kids in their new Ferraris and Escalades rolling up every night. But the 1927 detailing kind of works –
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To the right, the Yucca Vine Tower, 6305-09 Yucca Street (at Vine), H. L. Gogerty of Gogerty & Weyl Architects, 1928, eight stories, Art Deco – now the central feature of the Los Angeles campus of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. And the light is on.
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And across the street, at the Capitol Record Building, there are these guys. And to explain – "Capitol's producers significantly altered the content of the Beatles albums, and, believing the Beatles' recordings were sonically unsuited to the US market, added equalization to brighten the sound, and also piped the recordings through the famous Capitol echo chamber, located underneath the parking lots outside the Capitol Tower." The famous Capitol echo chamber is under this sidewalk.
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If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back to this site.
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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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Alan M. Pavlik
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