Wednesday, July 4, 2007 – Hollywood Fourth

The supply sergeant looks down on Hollywood Boulevard, from the Supply Sergeant store – surplus military goods, pepper spray and military models always available. America.

Columbus himself looks down on the heart of Hollywood from the Hollywood First National Bank (6777 Hollywood Boulevard, at Highland). The building went up in 1927 - Meyer and Holler, the architects, also designed the famous Chinese Theater one block west.  Columbus himself must be puzzled about how the new world thing worked out.

The manikins on the boulevard suggest ways to celebrate The Fourth.

Also for sale, a patriotic beach towel, if you're heading for the beach. Betsy Ross would not be amused.  Well, maybe she actually would giggle.

Posters for the Hollywood and Highland complex suggest that the idea in this culture is to "Live Large" – and the elephant seems appropriate, in a political sort of way.

Just don't think too much about the current administration – a section of a mural down on Melrose.

What could be more patriotic than a live broadcast from right in front of the Kodak Theater on Hollywood Boulevard on the Fourth of July, even if it's a high-definition interview show in Japanese, being beamed back to Tokyo?  (Not shown – the satellite and broadcast trucks in the street, from a firm in Youngstown, Ohio.)

Hollywood, Fourth of July.

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik