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August 2010

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Monday, August 16, 2010 – Hollywood Ruins

The Hollywood Sign as seen From Selma Avenue

Hollywood is a dissolute place of course – the residue of acute and overwhelming narcissism clogs the streets. You see it in the streets around Sunset and Vine.

"It's All About Me" - advertising graphic on the west wall of the Sunset-Vine Tower
American Apparel billboard and the CNN Building - Wilcox and Selma, Hollywood
Verizon billboard, Sunset and Vine
"Fake" - Sunset and Cahuenga, Hollywood
Nordstrom billboard above the Taft Building, Hollywood and Vine
Nordstrom billboard above the Taft Building, Hollywood and Vine

At Sunset and Vine – Bette Davis – the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets on the bank building that replaced NBC's 1938 Radio City, the studios that gave America the Jack Benny Show and all the rest.

Sunset and Vine - Bette Davis - the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets on the bank building that replaced NBC's 1938 Radio City
Sunset and Vine - Bette Davis - the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets on the bank building that replaced NBC's 1938 Radio City

And Garbo –

Sunset and Vine - Greta Garbo - the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets on the bank building that replaced NBC's 1938 Radio City
Sunset and Vine - Greta Garbo - the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets on the bank building that replaced NBC's 1938 Radio City

And out front, the little angel whispers continually to the naked starlet –

Millard Sheets statue at Sunset and Vine
Millard Sheets statue at Sunset and Vine
Millard Sheets statue at Sunset and Vine
The Gilbert Hotel and the CNN Building, Hollywood
Filming Notice in Hollywood - I Can Sing Too
Filming Notice in Hollywood - Dexter

At the Hollywood Athletic Club, founded by Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, and Rudolph Valentino, as a private men's club – and later a hangout for Errol Flynn and Clark Gable – Dick Powell brought the corpse of John Barrymore here for "one last drink" – and here John Wayne liked to toss billiard balls from the roof at passing cars below. It figures.

Fallen signs, Sunset Boulevard
Embrace Failure t-shirt in shop window on Hollywood Boulevard
Fiberglass Elvis, Hollywood Boulevard
"It's All About Me" - advertising graphic on the west wall of the Sunset-Vine Tower
The Hollywood Sign as seen From Selma Avenue

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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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