#Hollywood Los Angeles

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)

15/07/2024

[yodaprod]

Hollywood Blvd (1973)

Source: Youtube/The KinoLibrary

[beatsboy]

a silver mercedes crashes in los angeles, april 2024

[scottheim]

Sunset Strip rock billboards (photos by Robert Landau and others)

[ysociety]

from the lyft

[vintagehomecollection]

The Storer House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed as an organic extension of its rugged environment, Wright's Storer house - second of the textile-block houses - rises on a series of terraces set into a Hollywood hillside, its cement blocks mixed with decomposed granite from the site itself.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[dduane]

Im listening to Pratchat podcast ep81 https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/11/08/pratchat81-notes-and-errata/

They are discussing the Terry Pratchett short story "Hollywood Chicken" which Terry wrote in his author note that it was inspired by a trueish story from yourself. Did you ever visit or see the chickens in your travels around Hollywood?

Yes: often. They lived at the patch of ground on either side of the Vineland offramp of the Hollywood Freeway/US 101. You could see them scratching around and doing their thing pretty much any time you went up that offramp in a car or bus. (As for “trueish”: God love ‘em, they’re still there. In fact, they’ve apparently spread to the next offramp down.)

Terry’s exact wording about this in his forenote to the story is, “Diane Duane swore it was true, and I wasn’t about to argue.” 😏 This would have been because when the subject came up in some convention bar or other, (a) we were in Telling Another Writer About A Cool if Unlikely-Sounding Thing mode—at which time you do not “pull the long bow,” just lay out the facts as known to you—and (b) I knew quite well Terry’d later do his fact-checking and possibly find out more about the story than I knew: which would be fun. …Thus (eventually/accidentally) leaving me with one of the greatest blurb slugs ever seen. 😄

HTH!

[inthedarktrees]

Marilyn Monroe

Edward Clark, Life, August 8, 1950

[retropopcult]

The intersection of Sunset & Vine at night, late 1940s

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968, Ken Hughes)

11/09/2024

[yodaprod]

Driving North on Vine St in the 80s

[pnkhalo]

[poppingmary]

Anne Bancroft poses at her home in Los Angeles, California - 1953

Photo by Earl Leaf

[esqueletosgays]

MAXXXINE (2024)

Director: Ti West Cinematography: Eliot Rockett

[ysociety]

[archiveofaffinities]

This is nearer to the real Marlboro country - the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, 1980s, Agency: Leo Burnett