Hollywood: Then & Now - (Then & Now (Pavilion Books)) by Rosemary Lord (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A fascinating comparison of the orange groves and bean fields of yesterday with the slick urban existence that is Hollywood today. Moorish and Spanish revival architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright homes still stand alongside modern structures such as Frank Gehry's breathtaking Disney Concert Hall. This book features early photographs matched with specially commissioned contemporary images of the same locations, including Graumann's Chinese Theatre and the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, and show what has changed and what has remained after 100 years of Hollywood. Sites include Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood and Vine, Immaculate Heart High School, Beachwood Village, Hollywoodland, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood High School, Gower Street, Lasky Studios, Fox Studios, Chaplin Field, MGM Studios, RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Chateau Marmont, Whitley Heights, Roosevelt Hotel, and the Garden of Allah.--Amazon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, the book provides a visual chronicle of a century of HollywoodMoorish and Spanish revival architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright homes still stand alongside modern structures such as Frank Gehry's breathtaking Disney Concert Hall. A fascinating comparison of the orange groves and bean fields of yesterday with the slick urban existence that is Hollywood today, including Graumann's Chinese Theatre and the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Sites include Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood and Vine, Immaculate Heart High School, Beachwood Village, Hollywoodland, Griffith Observatory, Hollywood High School, Gower Street, Lasky Studios, Fox Studios, Chaplin Field, MGM Studios, RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount, Hollywood Forever Cemetry, Chateau Marmont, Whitley Heights, Roosevelt Hotel, and the Garden of Allah.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fascinating comparison of the orange groves and bean fields of yesterday with the slick of urban streets today." --<i>Discover Hollywood</i><br><br>a "fascinating comparison of the orange groves and bean fields of yesterday with the slick of urban streets today." --"Discover Hollywood"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rosemary Lord has spent more than 20 years working in Los Angeles, acting in theater, films, and television as well as working as a senior publicist for Columbia Pictures. She is the author of Los Angeles Then and Now.
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