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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 – Making It

Clara Bow - detail of mosaic mural by Millard Sheets at the bank building at Sunset and Vine, Hollywood

Clara Bow was The "It" Girl – and here she is in the mosaic mural by Millard Sheets at the bank building at Sunset and Vine, just down the street from the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, where long ago she had The "It" Café –

Clara Bow - detail of mosaic mural by Millard Sheets at the bank building at Sunset and Vine, Hollywood
Clara Bow - detail of mosaic mural by Millard Sheets at the bank building at Sunset and Vine, Hollywood

Not it –

Miss Piggy - window of Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood
Miss Piggy - window of Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood
Window of Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

California Dreaming – actually a billboard on Sunset telling you to get yourself to Vegas, just a five hour drive away –

Billboard on Sunset Boulevard

The Hollywood Mantra –

"Surrender" - Vine Street, Hollywood

Everyone wants to be in the movies –

Mural in trash yard off Selma Avenue in Hollywood
Mural in trash yard off Selma Avenue in Hollywood
Mural in trash yard off Selma Avenue in Hollywood
"Life as We Know It" - Warner Brothers billboard above Hollywood and Vine
Ballet Dancer - detail of mural on the west wall of Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

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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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