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Monday, September 13, 2010 – Folly Starting in the middle of the eighteenth century rich Englishmen began building "follies" on their massive estates – basically fake ruins – a crumbling Greek or Roman temple, or a Chinese temple, or Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys and sometimes rustic villages, mills and cottages – all new of course, but looking old and evocative. They served no purpose. They were decorative. They just kind of reminded you of something that was once important in the past. And it's odd. Hollywood is like that too. Folly, of course – |
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The famous Hollywood Folly – at the southwest corner of Hollywood and Wilcox, the "You Are a Star" mural by Tom Suriya – |
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