Thanks for pinpointing the location of this photograph as Angels Point Road ProphetM
and FredH.

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-much appreciated. :)
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warrants / ephemera

1926
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also 1926
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The text says that ''Ruth is the intelligent one of the two''. How did they know that? :D:koko::D

In some cases a Dollar Store might be an improvement. :yes:

If I were a tourist hoping to see anything as history on the WEB and in books might reflect I'd be a bit disappointed to find no Brown Derby, No Schwabs, etc. I would certainly be a little surprised to find my favorite entertainer's star among those in front of the PEP BOYS auto repair and parts store in the 6100 block of Hollywood Blvd.

Of course if I were an entertainer who had been approached about a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there are locations I simply wouldn't shell out the $15,000 it costs, which a number have refused to do.

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There are some interesting statistics in this 1928 directory.

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31 movie studios in 1928! I'd be hard-pressed to name a third of them.


The seller included two sample pages (below)

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25 companies named ACME!


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There are some intriguing names....

Poochie Pet Cloth Dog

Popocatepetl Roll Music

Poverty Row Bugle

-to name a few.

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I am guessing you are correct. The publisher is listed:
PHILADELPHIA - LONDON
...so the ones printed in the U.S. were probably GYPSY and in Britain GIPSY.

Looks to me like all the cars are '54 models or older, so I'd guess the top date is a typo. The pictures look like they were intended for some kind of visual guide to LA. The one of the Stack ought to be titled ("LA Freeways when We could still afford to Landscape and Maintain Them").

The date is accurate. The Tan/goldish colored car is a 1955 Pontiac. Had one of the same model year in White over Green paint scheme.

Before 1960! That's nearly 55 years ago! You'd be hard-pressed to find any place in the U.S. that would "be as it was in the years before 1960."

Hollywood & Vine and Hollywood has always been a tourist trap. Before 1960 there were far more places in that area where tourists saw radio shows and television programs and live eprformances in nightclbs and movie premieres etc. And people still do normal things there, too.

But "tourist trap" doesn't have to be a negative thing, either.

That's stretching the truth of things. The Blvd. is not the shopping mecca it once was and that happened when the populace began moving into the valley and shopping malls began to emerge. There was no need to travel to Hollywood to shop somewhere in particular.

Like many, I have a fondness for the Hollywood area in the 30's and 40's but tourists can still find places of that era to visit. The Chinese Theatre (with feetprint in cement events) and the Pantages. The El Capitan was restored around 1991 and is a fantastic venue. The Egyptian Theatre has transitioned to the base for the American Cinematheque and you can see vintage movies there all year long. And celebrity visits from those of yesteryear, too.

You can visit Musso & Frank's Restaurant, the Pig & Whistle, Boardner's and Miceli's restaurant. You can have a cocktail at the Frolic Room. There's always the Roosevelt Hotel and the Hollywood Bowl.

On Sunset you can still visit the Florentine Gardens and the Palladium.

And there's still plenty of movie premieres and live performances. Oh, and the Academy Awards. And the Hollywood Christmas parade.

TCM's week long movie extravanganza merges the past with the present and is a huge annual event now.

No, it's never going to be what it WAS like, but there are things to appreciate and celebrate.

By the way, the Walk of Fame doesn't extend past Vine Street, so no one has a star in front of Pep Boys.

I don't know what stars you cite that have refused a star on the Walk of Fame, but the stars themselves, if they have any integrity, are sponsored by someone (studios or groups or contributions or individuals) and don't pay for the honor, nor solicit it themselves, as you suggest. The only thing required of them is that they show up for the ceremony. Paul Newman was one who refused the honor because he didn't want to show up. Barbra Streisand is the only one I know that accepted the honor and then didn't show up. (They should've removed the star!)

I prefer to have the attitude of someone like the Hawaii historian DeSoto Brown. He was asked if he'd like to live in any particular era of Hawaii's past and he genuinely admmitted he would love to go back for any number of reasons, but would prefer to take all that knowledge and bring it back to the present.

If we really lived in these periods of time we like to look back on, would we really enjoy it as much as we think? Would we be able to afford eating out in all the restaurants we admire? If it was the depression would we even have a job? Would we be in the service during WWII? Would we like breathing the air of the 1950's?

I guess I just don't see the negativity of dissing something because it's not what it used to be.

Back cover of the 1959 Frank Sennes Moulin Rouge Season program. (The Earl Carroll Theater)

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the front cover ain't bad either...................

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Where can we find that list!

I looked up that name/word "Popocatepetl".

Popocatepetl is a volcano, east of Mexico City,
and erupted as recently as a year ago in July.

Yep...things do change over time....
 

This is the list of Motion Picture Producers from the 1927 CD (LAPL has 1927 and 1929, but not 1928), and there are over 100 named here. There are many familiar names along with others I'd never heard of.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ducers1927.jpg
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:previous: Makes me want to work my way through that list.


Here are some black and white images of the protest outside of Pandora's Box on Sunset Blvd. in 1966.

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Martin_Pal had an excellent post on Pandora's Box in early Aug. (including an impressive color photograph)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23000


and a great follow-up by HossC.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23005

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The "famed" Schwab's was indeed on Sunset. If I recall correctly Schwab's over the years became more or less a local chain and had some five or six locations.

As for PEP BOYs being on the Walk of Fame:


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pe...9f709f!6m1!1e1

Sure looks like some 25+ Stars are along the front entrance and parking lot.

I love the Hamm's Beer bear billboard on the first photo. I'm a bear and I love beer too ;) And Cool to see many discussions spawned by the story I read about last weekend on our local NPR radio station and posted about here.

1930 Hollywood shopping guide cover

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yup, purty good shoppin' dirtrict.................

Blue boy episode of Dragnet 1967.


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:previous: -very cool. I didn't realize Dragnet had filmed an episode there.
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That's a great graphic of Hollywood Boulevard stores circa 1930! -quite a find gsjansen.