
“Where stars are made, debts are paid and actors are a dime a dozen.”
The Times Square of Cinematown - Vine Street crosses Hollywood Boulevard. Feb, 1938.

The Hollywood sign originally said “Hollywoodland” when it was installed in 1923. The last four letters were deleted when the sign was refurbished in 1949.

Christmas in the Hollywood Hills in Southern California - 1955

Hollywood street scene in 1936, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Me ( on the right) and a friend on Melrose in Hollywood late 1990’s. Pic by Val.
Katharine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep in Walt Disney’s Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)

Christmas in the Hollywood Hills in Southern California - 1955

Hollywood Kisses
two page spread from the February 1943 Photoplay/Movie Mirror magazine
with Rita Hayworth, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable , Dorothy Lamour, Maria Montez and Linda Darnell

Ava Gardner at the premiere of “The Barefoot Contessa” in Hollywood 1954