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Originally Posted by Noircitydame
Found some sailors- not at the 7 Seas after all, but down the block at Hollywood & Vine.
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Nice series of photos and thanks for pointing out some of the details.
In the above photo, I like the stance of the woman crossing the street. She's
almost angled backwards, though she might be trying to avoid being hit by
the car.
Is that sailor's cap the wrong size?
I thought spelling words incorrectly (not
cleverly as they seem to think it is)
was a newer phenomenon. Notice the spelling of "thoroughly" on the billboard
above Melody Lane.***
The headline on that vendor's paper looks huge. I wonder what happened that day?
(Though on looking at some of the other photos the headlines on most of the
papers look huge. Maybe it was standard then, or every headline was huge
during the war.)
By the way, it was either cloudy or a bad case of smog in those other great
pictures taken for LIFE magazine. You can hardly see down the boulevard.
***Thoroly is listed, however, in some dictionaries:
1.) (rare) Alternative spelling of thoroughly.
Usage notes: This spelling is seldom found nowadays.
However, the spelling is occasionally employed as shorthand.
Origin: Proposed as a phonetic spelling of thoroughly in 1898 by
the American National Education Association.
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Originally Posted by Noircitydame
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Notice in this photo is a lamp post advertisement for the Pilgrimage Play. As
it's pointing north, I am assuming it was for the Pilgrimage Play presented
each summer at the Pilgrimage Theatre in the Cahuenga Pass, renamed the
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in 1976, near the Hollywood Bowl, built in 1920
for the purpose of presenting that play. A brush fire destroyed it in October
of 1929 and it was rebuilt, opening again in 1931.
I say I assume the sign is for this because on the theatre's current website's
history page,
HERE, it states:
After re-opening in 1931, The Pilgrimage Play was again performed here until
1964, interrupted only by World War II.
This photo would make that debateable.