Tuesday, June 17, 2008 – The Sun Has Set

Sunset Boulevard, showing its age – or actually, the old gives way to the new –

Nearby, in the windows of Amoeba Music –

The old "World Famous" Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard – being rebuilt.  It opened September 23, 1940, with a concert by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and over the years it has hosted the Oscars, the Emmy Awards, the Grammy Awards – and the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Madonna and Barbra Streisand. It was built by film producer Maurice M. Cohen on the site of the original Paramount Pictures.  It needs work.

A billboard across the street –

Sunset-Gower Studios, home of Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in 1934, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1936, Funny Girl and The Caine Mutiny.  Stage 3 is where HBO filmed Six Feet Under.

Local art –

The artist –

Will Smith at Sunset and Vine – a poster for his new movie, Hancock.  See the location shoot on Hollywood Boulevard at Major Movie Shoot (see also Page Two and Page Three) – September 13, 2007.  Hollywood is in ruins.

The local milieu on Vine – a palm reader, a Peruvian restaurant, someone sprayed the word "riot" on the wall.  Paul De Longpre (1855-1911) was the famous French painter – he did flowers,  He ended up in Hollywood. His old mansion on Hollywood Boulevard was torn down long ago. They named a street after him.

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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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