Yes, the Christmas Stars are up on Hollywood Boulevard – it's time to feel all dislocated again, like in Woody Allen's Annie Hall where you hear a boy's choir singing a Christmas melody while Allen and his buddy drive around here at Christmas, with the palm trees and plastic Santa's and brutal sunshine. It's supposed to be ironic. And the original verse to Irving Berlin's White Christmas was about sitting under the palm trees at a fancy swimming pool at this time of year in LA and feeling all dislocated, and thus dreaming of a White Christmas, somewhere else.
But we make do. This is the L. Ron Hubbard Christmas Village at the Scientology Center on Hollywood Boulevard at the old Christie Hotel –
Ah, Christmas carols across the street at Fredrick's of Hollywood –
More Christmas music down at Grauman's Chinese Theater –
Across the street at Disney's El Capitan Theater, where the 1926 exterior by Stiles O. Clements adds a nice touch –
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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.
