Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Musso & Frank

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    Musso & Frank is old Hollywood. It was opened in 1919 by French immigrant Firmin "Frank" Toulet. I guess Frank was easier ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

North Hollywood

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  Just enough of the license plate holder is readable to see that this Rambler station wagon was purchased from a dealership in North Hollyw...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Music To My Ears 6

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I still haven't quite figured out what name this woman eventually ended up using, at least professionally.  Mary Reagan and Ann Park...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Music To My Ears 1

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Time to start another collection. But who is it about?  Well, that's a bit of a mystery since I have pictures of the same woman t...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

A Bit Of Sweden

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Hey, I like a good smorgasbord.  A Bit of Sweden isn't there anymore.  It was at the corner of Sunset and Doheny on the Sunset Strip...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Dolores Del Rio and Her Hollywood Home

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What can I say?  I love Dolores Del Rio.  She was born in Mexico, moved to Hollywood during the silent era and started working in the mo...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Mariette Hartley and Arlene Dayton?

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One would think, since I live in Los Angeles and work in the movies (albeit at a very low level), I'd have lots of Hollywood phot...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Sound

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After the photo lab I worked at went belly up, after going through my unemployment, savings and retirement fund, I started doing backgro...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Mildred Takes A Trip 4

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Well, ramblin' Mildred is on the road again.  The top photo is pretty obvious.  It's the Hollywood Bowl.  Over the years, ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Hollywood At War

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These two photos are each stamped, "MAY 13, 1943." Most people, when they think of Hollywood and war,  think of war movie...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

U. S. Army Air Force

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This one is the full 8x10, heavy, double weight, fiber paper print meant to be displayed in the silver frame on the mantle piece. I had...
Friday, July 4, 2014

70 Years Ago Today

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Written on the back, "Hilda Lillie Boykin Made 4th July, 1944 in Hollywood."
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Lana Turner

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Imagine.  It's the 1940s and you've saved your money so  you can visit Hollywood.  You go to the restaurants you've read abou...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties

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I'm not going to write much about Mack Sennett.  He was born in Canada in 1880 and died, within my lifetime, in 1960.  He was early c...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ramon Novarro

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I'm not one to collect autographed pictures of actors, but I was scrolling through EBay, 99cents, free shipping, click and it was mine. ...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Ciro's on the Sunset Strip

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Two folders, two prints, but only one negative. Most of these old, classic nightclubs would have photographers, usually a pretty girl in a s...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Hollywood Palladium

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. . . . . I admit that this isn't the strongest photograph in the world, but the cover is nice and the Hollywood Palladium is still up a...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Hollywood Post Office

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Did J.E. buy this postcard of the Hollywood Post Office at the Hollywood Post Office? If so why did he mail it from Beverly Hills? Prin...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Hollywood Hot Spots

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These two images are linen postcards of night spots from the golden age of Hollywood. (Information about how linen postcrds were made...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Earl Carroll Theatre Restaurant, Hollywood

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Two unrelated souvenir photo folders from the same Hollywood, CA night club. Earl Carroll was a Broadway producer, director, composer,...