Good Golly It's Hollywood!
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Los Angeles, California, USA
April 2016
This image was from my trip to LA back in April 2016. I'm still going through my images from my recent trip to the US and the UK. I will post these once I can find time to select my images and properly process them!
Will be catching up with everyone soon enough.
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The House Finch was originally a bird of the western United States and Mexico. In 1940 a small number of finches were turned loose on Long Island, New York, after failed attempts to sell them as cage birds (“Hollywood finches”). They quickly started breeding and spread across almost all of the eastern United States and southern Canada within the next 50 years.
The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. It is the principal route through the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortcut between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley. It is considered one of the most important freeways in the history of Los Angeles and instrumental in the development of the San Fernando Valley. It is the second oldest freeway in Los Angeles (after the Arroyo Seco Parkway). From its southern end at the East Los Angeles Interchange to its intersection with the Ventura Freeway in the southeastern San Fernando Valley (the Hollywood Split), it is signed as part of U.S. Route 101. It is then signed as State Route 170 north to its terminus at the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5).
Plans for the Hollywood Freeway officially began in 1924 when Los Angeles voters approved a "stop-free express highway" between Downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. The first segment of the Hollywood Freeway built was a one and a half mile stretch through the Cahuenga Pass. That segment opened on June 15, 1940. It was then known as the "Cahuenga Pass Freeway." Pacific Electric Railway trolleys ran down the center of this freeway until 1952. The next section of the freeway that stretched from the San Fernando Valley to Downtown Los Angeles opened on April 16, 1954 at a cost of $55 million. The final section, north of the Ventura Freeway to the Golden State Freeway was completed in 1968.
A year after the Hollywood Freeway opened, it was used by an average of 183,000 vehicles a day, almost double the capacity it was designed to carry. Actor Bob Hope called it the "biggest parking lot in the world" in his routine.
The segment through Hollywood was the first to be built through a heavily populated area and requiring the moving or demolition of many buildings, including Rudolph Valentino's former home in Whitley Heights. The freeway was also designed to curve around KTTV Studios and Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Much of the rubble and debris from the buildings removed for the freeway's construction was dumped into Chávez Ravine, the current home to Dodger Stadium.
In 1967, the Hollywood Freeway was the first freeway in California that had ramp meters.
Near the Vermont Avenue exit, there's a seemingly over-wide center strip now filled with trees. This is where the never-built Beverly Hills Freeway was to merge with the Hollywood Freeway. Plans for the Beverly Hills Freeway were halted in the 1970s.
The Hollywood Freeway is an expansion of the original Cahuenga Parkway, a short six-lane freeway that ran through the Cahuenga Pass between Hollywood and Studio City. The Cahuenga Parkway featured Pacific Electric Railway "Red Car" tracks in its median, but by the 1950s these tracks were out of service due to radical reductions in Red Car service. The Pacific Electric right-of-way later accommodated an additional lane in each direction.
The second location of Los Angeles High School was in the path of the freeway. The school moved to its third and current location in 1917. The school buildings were converted into a school for boys with truancy problems until 1948, when it was demolished to make way for the freeway.
FEC 335-25 wakes up Hollywood Florida at 732am with a missing nose logo SD40 and the elusive FEC 719 DIT as it nears it the end of it’s run to Medley Yard.
Hollywood Hills, CA
09-04-2017
Processed 09-15-20.
This photo was taken three years ago from the grounds of the Griffith Park Observatory on my favorite kinds of days, when there are myriad fluffy clouds in the bright blue sky.
I live near the ocean, and I'm physically about 30 miles away from the nearest fires, but the skies have been oppressive and dark, bordering on apocalyptic yellow and orange, not bright blue, and raining ash at times.
I'm praying that the fires will pass, and sooner than later. The country has burned enough. Hopefully these blue skies and wondrous clouds will return above California and the West.
This fast food snack stop is located on the open starboard deck area of the Queen Mary. For me I liked this image for it's contrasting scene from my vantage point, but there is something wrong about plunking a few tables and chairs on the open deck under the life boats. It detracts from the nostalgic and historical beauty this grand vessel has to offer. I went online to get some info on this deli but found nothing good, only bad to terrible reviews. That should be a signal to the gatekeepers.
If you have time I have linked a review, it is very well written and will leave you shaking your head.. www.yelp.com/biz/hollywood-deli-long-beach
For best contrasting detail, view large... View On Black
Gower Court, completed 2020, tallest mausoleum in the US, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. (Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Diseño.)
We took the kids to Hollywood yesterday. I've been to LA many, many times and this is my first trip there. This is a small dog park located in a residential area close to the Hollywood Reservoir (I believe in a place called Hollywood Knolls). This is where my brother used to take his dogs to let them run. It was hazy out...hence the bright sky and sign not being clear.
Typical tourist shot.
Hollywood Blvd. photographed from the top of the Hollywood Highland Complex
Hollywood, CA
11-05-2017
HDR processing 08-27-19
Hollywood & Vine, N.W. corner.
Sidney Poitier & Judy Garland (unseen behind tree) star in Hollywood mural by artist Tristan Eaton.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, California
Polaroid 600 film expired 04/09
The "Hollywood" is a sleek glass-clad modern home boasting 3-4 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, an underground garage connected to a large finished basement, a back patio featuring a waterfall feature, a beautiful pool, a seating area, lots of extras and so much more!
Pool:
The pool can seat 6 people at a time and features 30+ lounging animations (28 Singles and 6 Couple animations), and the terrace offers plenty of space for entertaining, additional decor and outdoor furniture :).
Extras:
This house comes in two versions. A ground version and a sky version. The latter being meant for those of you who either don't feel like terraforming, don't like their surroundings or do not have access to terraforming tools.
The sky version is pre-decorated (exterior only), you can use it as is, or you can add your own landscaping. We've also made some matching palm trees, those are included too!
We've also included driveway and walkway slabs, blinds in 3 lengths, and multiple mesh pieces to facilitate terraforming around the house - more on that below ↓.
Terraforming:
This house features a sunken garage and a finished basement level. If you wish to use the ground version you will need to terraform the land around your new house. We've provided premade mesh pieces in 2 sizes meant to facilitate the process. They are fairly easy to use but If you don't like terraforming, or don't have access to terraforming tools, you will want to use the sky version included in the purchase.
Key Features:
- 3-4 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms.
- Optional sky version of the house, featuring a premade walkable exterior.
- Stunning master suite featuring a private bathroom and a private balcony.
- Two functional fireplaces.
- Lots of extras including blinds, palm trees and driveway and walkway slabs!
- Lots of water features including 2 waterfalls.
- A back patio featuring a beautiful pool (30+ Animations) and multiple sitting areas.
- A luxurious underground garage.
- A finished basement.
- Curated color options for accents throughout the house (Wood, Exterior Metal Accents, Tile Floors)
As always, the house comes with a Details HUD which includes a few different customizing options for you to play with!
Full and half texture resolution versions are included with this house, with the latter being designed to prevent lag and/or texture thrashing on lower spec systems.