Posted on 06/14/2013 11:37:02 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
People who live outside of Los Angeles and Orange County in California get a very warped perception of what Hollywood really is, other than the cleaned up touristy things to look at and the very controlled red carpet events most of the rest of it is as grimey and dirty as their morals....it's fitting really.
LOL
Took my niece to Hollywood yesterday. Hollywood blvd seems a lot more freaky than I remembered it from last time!
I used to live in Northern CA. I took several business trips and a couple of family trips to LA. I was amazed at what a slummy area Hollywood was. You had to ask homeless to move to see what star they were sleeping on. Dirty was an understatement.
I lived in North Hollywood years ago and recall that was tacky, then, so I can’t imagine how it must be, today. Unless you live there (or nearby) the name ‘Hollywood’ always brings up visions of movie stars living glamorous lives on palm-lined streets (they’re in Beverly Hills, not Hollywood). It’s all image, and a false one, befitting the industry that helped make it famous.
Having lived there, I get a kick out of hearing Jan & Dean's hit recording of Dead Man's Curve, which describes a speed contest between two cars which race down a deserted Sunset Blvd. from Vine St. to Westwood Blvd. late on a Friday night. That stretch of Sunset Blvd. would be jammed even at 3 AM on a Sunday morning.
It’s like touring a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
We were neighbors, I lived near Hollywood and Vermont.
It was part of a two bumper sticker set I saw in the 70’s. The first one said: “Drive Down Scenic Hollywood Blvd”
I lived on Kings Road, just north of Sunset—a block from Art Laboe’s nightclub. When it was known as Ciro’s in the 1940’s and 1950’s, dozens of radio and recording stars performed there. Schwab’s, the famous Hollywood pharmacy that was once a hangout for movie stars was where I got my medicine, tooth paste, etc.
Earlier, I lived on Portland St., a block east of Hoover in North University Park.
Small world.
DANG !!!! ,,,, I thought I’d see a photoshop image of the Hollywood sign in front of the White House .
Hollywood was always dirty and edgy—the “Golden Era” didn’t apply to the town itself. It had bits of glamore and a lot of sleze. They should re-build the Brown Derby! They should re-build the studio system, they should cut the power of the leech-Unions that drive production companies to Canada.
Perfect!
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