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June 2010

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Friday, June 4, 2010 – LA Woman

Mae West, with pink wig, Hollywood Gateway at Hollywood and La Brea

At the Hollywood Gateway, at Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea, it seems someone is having a bit of fun with the statue of Mae West. It’s kind of cool and takes you back to April 1971 and Jim Morrison and the Doors. You remember LA Woman:

    I see your hair is burning,
    Hills are filled with fire.
    If they say I never loved you,
    You know they are a liar.
    Drivin' down your freeway,
    Midnight alleys roam.
    Cops in cars, topless bars, never saw a woman
    So alone, so alone, so alone, so alone

It's like that.

Mae West, with pink wig, Hollywood Gateway at Hollywood and La Brea

Odd stuff going on a Friday afternoon in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater –

Performer in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, Friday, June 4, 2010
Performers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, Friday, June 4, 2010

And if you look up –

American Apparel billboard at Hollywood and Highland
Jim Morrison quote - detail of Hollywood mural

More hair on fire, at Pink Pepper, a secluded Thai restaurant just down the street from the giant stainless steel Mae West, and a good place catch celebrities off guard. They eat too, just like the rest of us.

Wooden door at Pink Pepper, a secluded Thai restaurant on La Brea in Hollywood
Wooden door at Pink Pepper, a secluded Thai restaurant on La Brea in Hollywood

More LA women –

Billboard - Dirty Women - Hollywood
Billboard - Dirty Women - Hollywood
Hollywood Pigeons
Seduction - vintage magazine for sale in the window of a Hollywood souvenir shop

What's a guy to do?

Billboard for the show "Hung" across the street from Hollywood High School
Billboard for the show "Hung" across the street from Hollywood High School
Mae West, with pink wig, Hollywood Gateway at Hollywood and La Brea

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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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