What is it that we're living for?

...Applause, Applause!

Rusted Applause Sign- Virgil Ave. City Yard

Hollywood Sex Symbols

Elizabeth Taylor

Sophia Loren

Lana Turner

Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe

Judge Judith Sheindlin

On a Mission

Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana founded 1797
San Fernando Valley, CA

 

San Fernando Mission Church

 

Statue of Mission founder Father Fermin Lausen



Bob Hope burial site San Fernando Mission Cemetery
Bob Hope Memorial Garden

Bob Hope  (1903 - 2003)  gravestone



HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE

  

The 2010 Hollywood Christmas Parade.

First presented in 1928 when it was known as

The Santa Clause Lane Parade, this fun tradition has had an increasingly troubled history.

Though local kids love it, local celebrities find little publicity value in it and the parade struggles to find celebrities younger than Mickey Rooney to appear in it each year.

77 year-old Larry King was 2010's Grand Marshall. Enuf said.

Personally, I think it would be great if the parade featured Hollywood vets and legends, but the demands of television sponshorship require a young (money spending) viewership, thus making it necessary for the parade to include a plethora of  unrecognizable, interchangable non-stars from music, motion pictures and the Disney Channel clone factory. The parade of young and old /famous and forgotten has the comical effect of having the marching bands nearly drowned out by shouts of  "Who the hell is that?"  echoing along the parade route.

2010 marked the first appearance of Macy's-style balloons, and the newly cleaned-up Hollywood Blvd certainly puts on its best face for the event.

THE THINGS YOU SEE WHEN YOU WALK IN L.A.

 

ART IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

Two very cool Neon Art Installations

grace the streets of West Hollywood, CA

                                           IT'S COLOSSAL!!!

In an apparent effort to embrace its own inherent cheesiness and love of overkill,

Hollywood plays host to an oversized cheese macaroni.

Kodak Theater, Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA.

DINO the DINOSAUR

Fred Flintstone's cheerfully glossy pet offers toddlers rides (for a price) outside a Los Angeles Market

ONE TAB OF LSD, ONION ON THE SIDE

The Sepulveda Onion Church in the San Fernando Valley, CA.

Domed interior of "The Onion" church. Site of the 1966
Kool-Aid Acid Tests, recounted in Ken Kesey's book.

These Poppies Won't Put You To Sleep

Poppy Reserve Antelope Valley, CA

1800 Acres of land, 7 miles of trails