Tuesday, July 29, 2008 – Slices of Life Here

To get a feel for the place, in this case Hollywood, attend to the specific, not the general.  It's all in the details. A rocket detail at the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard –

The fakest of the fake – Mel's Drive-In, on Highland just south of Hollywood Boulevard, which isn't a drive-in, and where you won't find celebrities –

On Hollywood Boulevard, Snow White's place, next to the Wax Museum – it's been there forever, pretending not to be ironic –

Mickey Mouse just finished reading the newspaper and would like to have a word with you –

This may have once been a mouse –

A rock musician advertizing Converse shoes under a billboard for Forest Lawn's mortuary services –

You may think this is a provocative poster for Scarlett Johansson's new movie, but it's really a shot of the TV Guide Building on Hollywood Boulevard –

From the late twenties, the Spanish Colonial Revival building on Hollywood Boulevard that recently housed the Hollywood Erotic Museum – but that failed. It's now no more than a base for billboards, but something may be going on behind that window.

Two sad palms –

Batwoman just walks away – and as you know, Batwoman made her first comic book appearance in Detective Comics #233 (1956).  By day she was Katherine "Kathy" Kane, a character who was introduced as a love interest for Batman to disprove allegations he was gay that came up in the book Seduction of the Innocent (1954). But this is just one of the boulevard's Batwoman impersonators, heading home.

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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.

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