Monday, June 9, 2008 – Hollywood Haze

Just another surreal Monday on Hollywood Boulevard in June – early afternoon, smoggy, hot and oddly quiet – too quiet –

Lunch with Elvis?

If you were a writer in Hollywood – F. Scott Fitzgerald or Nathanael West or any of the others who somehow found themselves here – you'd probably want to write in this garret, right above Hollywood Boulevard, looking down on Elvis at the lunch counter.  The Baine Building, 6601-09 Hollywood Boulevard, Gogerty and Weyl, architects, 1926 –

Local color –

The Warner Pacific Theater –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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