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Monday, July 14, 2008 – A New Square

Larry King Square, Sunset at Cahuenga, Hollywood

Hollywood had a new square.  On Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 2:00 in the afternoon, they had the dedication.  The intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Cahuenga Boulevard, one block west of Vine, is now Larry King Square.  King, that strange old man who has been interviewing people on television forever, and the voice of the Ugly Stepsister in the Shrek movies, does his show from CNN's Los Angeles Bureau – the big black skyscraper there on the southwest corner.  King, born in 1933 as Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, is a bit of a legend. He has his Emmy Awards and CNN’s highest-rated program, and was named "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master of the mike" by Time magazine.

Perhaps this was inevitable – this is Hollywood, after all.  But it is odd – he's not a celebrity, or a movie star, or a famous director. He just talks to them. But then, as you will see when you scroll down past the CNN pictures, everything around Larry King Square odd.
CNN's Los Angeles Bureau
CNN's Los Angeles Bureau
CNN's Los Angeles Bureau

CNN faces Amoeba Music, across the street on Cahuenga –

Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard at Cahuenga, Hollywood - "Cat Power"
Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard at Cahuenga, Hollywood - Duke Ellington at the Apollo Theater, detail of mural
Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard at Cahuenga, Hollywood - Duke Ellington at the Apollo Theater, detail of mural
Amoeba Music, Sunset Boulevard at Cahuenga, Hollywood

On the other side of CNN, a cool building –

6464 Sunset Boulevard - "Splash" building wrap

Just down the street is one of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes from 1963 – originally the Cinerama Dome, the first place built to show films shot in the process. Now it's part of the Arclight Cinemas complex, and the geometry got even more complex.

Arclight Cinemas complex, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
Arclight Cinemas complex, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
Arclight Cinemas complex, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
Arclight Cinemas complex, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood

A local business, supplying the studios in the neighborhood –

Neon Cameraman

The neighborhood welcomes you –

Promo for "The Dark Knight" on glass wall, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood - "Welcome to a World without Rules"

If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back this site. 

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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