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Photos and text, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2006 - Alan M. Pavlik

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These were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0

The original large-format raw files are available upon request.

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Visitors from February 28, 2006, 10:00 am Pacific Time to date -


Thursday, 9 November 2006
True Colors
Topic: Color Studies
True Colors
In mid-October this wall on Hollywood Boulevard was poison green (bottom of the page) and the place abandoned. It seems now it's purple and a new business is about to open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A study in red, white and blue - and shadows - just across Hollywood Boulevard

Red, white and blue van parked on Hollywood Boulevard


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Wednesday, 8 November 2006
Hollywood Images
Topic: Graphics
Hollywood Images
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - Hollywood Boulevard - what you see in the windows - draw you own conclusions about the place -

Stickers on a window on Hollywood Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movie posters on Hollywood Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rudolf Valentino poster on Hollywood Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Dean poster on Hollywood Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Bond memorabilia on Hollywood Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ultra Vixen, Hollywood


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Tuesday, 7 November 2006
It's 1958 in Hollywood
Topic: Oddities
It's 1958 in Hollywood
1958 Rambler American in original condition, off Sunset Boulevard, November 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just off Sunset Boulevard, parked next to the Directors Guild - this seems to be a 1958 Rambler American in original condition. The paint is new but the color scheme is correct. American Motors Corporation (AMC) made Ramblers from 1958 and 1969. The American was their second try - a Rambler compact had been sold under the Nash and Hudson Motors name in 1954 and 1955. But this was all new for 1958, or at least the body style was. They produced this for two years before making something bigger and far different as a Rambler American. You can credit this first generation to the company president, George W. Romney, and the Eisenhower Recession of 1958. People suddenly wanted smaller cars, or so the thinking went. It was available only as a two-door sedan 1958, but they moved 30,640 of them. In 1959 they sold 91,491 units, having added a two-door station wagon. In 1960, they added a four-door sedan and hit 120,603 units. Then they changed it all. The recession was over.

George Romney resigned to become governor of Michigan, the company reversed course and tried to turn itself into a full-line imitation of the Big Three. That didn't work out and by the late seventies they were looking for a partner to bail them out - and that would be France's Renault in 1979. The arrangement lasted until March 1987, when American Motors was purchased by the Chrysler Corporation, and they discontinued the use of the AMC and Renault brand names in the United States. The Jeep line was continued. The Rambler American was no more.

But there's one in Hollywood.

1958 Rambler American in original condition, off Sunset Boulevard, November 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 Rambler American in original condition, off Sunset Boulevard, November 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 Rambler American in original condition, off Sunset Boulevard, November 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Remember 1958? Here are selected events -

  • January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the European Union is implemented
  • January 8 - Fourteen-year-old year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship
  • January 31 - The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit
  • February 1 - Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic
  • February 17 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television
  • March 11 - A B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atomic bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs. Oops.
  • March 17 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite
  • March 27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
  • April 4 - The daughter of the actress Lana Turner stabs her mother's gangster lover to death out here (this was eventually ruled self-defense)
  • May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators
  • June 1 - Charles De Gaulle is brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months
  • July 15 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to protect the pro-Western government there
  • August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water
  • October 4 - BOAC uses the new Comet jet to become the first airline to fly jet passengers across the Atlantic
  • December 9 - The John Birch Society is founded in Newport Beach, California, by Robert Welch, a retired candy manufacturer
  • December 21 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes
Top movies of the year, in descending order of box office receipts -
  • Touch of Evil
  • Vertigo
  • Thunder Road
  • House on Haunted Hill
  • Nazarin
  • Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
  • Auntie Mame
  • The Barbarian and the Geisha
  • Bell, Book and Candle
  • The Big Country
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • The Brain from Planet Arous
The top then hits of 1958, in descending order -
  • Tequila - The Champs
  • Johnnie B. Goode - Chuck Berry
  • At the Hop - Danny & the Juniors
  • Get a Job - The Silhouettes
  • Twilight Time - The Platters
  • It's All In the Game - Tommy Edwards
  • Do You Want To Dance - Bobby Freeman
  • Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
  • Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day
  • Tears On My Pillow - Little Anthony and the Imperials

And more than thirty thousand Americans were driving Rambler Americans like this one.

1958 Rambler American, promotional material


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Updated: Tuesday, 7 November 2006 6:38 PM PST
Monday, 6 November 2006
Sunset on Sunset
Topic: Light and Shadow
Sunset on Sunset
Monday, November 6 - a November heat wave, with brutally clear skies, no humidity and a high in the nineties - big brush fires out in Rialto, threatening homes - just another day in paradise. But the sunset was good.

An hour before sunset, men at work on the Sunset Strip -

Men at work on the Sunset Strip at Sunset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Down the block, how the sunset looked in the wall of the Directors Guild of America -

The Directors Guild of America building at sunset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Directors Guild of America building at sunset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A helicopter passes over the Sunset Strip, on its way to the fires out east -

A helicopter passes over the Sunset Strip, on its way to the fires out east -


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Updated: Monday, 6 November 2006 7:49 PM PST
Sunday, 5 November 2006
Fall in Georgia
Topic: Guest Photography
Fall in Georgia
Matching Georgia Porches, our friend from the South sends more photographs.

"The register maple in my front yard may be the brightest tree in the neighborhood. It is affected drastically by the angles of the afternoon sun. In the first shot you can see the difference in chromosomes between the sugar maple limb in the foreground and the register maple." - Phillip Raines

Georgia maples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia maples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia maples

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos Copyright © 2006 - Phillip Raines

What is a register maple? Where does it fit?

Maple Species Native to the United States
Species
Common Name
Species
Scientific Name
General Geographic Distribution
Sugar Maple Acer saccharum Northeast United States and Southern Canada
Black Maple Acer nigrum Northeast United States and Southeast Canada
Red Maple Acer rubrum Eastern United States and Southeast Canada
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum Eastern United States and Southeast Canada
Boxelder Acer negundo Eastern and Central United States and Canada
Mountain Maple Acer spicatum Northeast United States and Southeast Canada
Striped Maple Acer pensylvanicum Northeast United States and Southeast Canada
Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum Pacific Coast United States and Canada
Chalk Maple Acer leucoderme Southeast United States
Canyon Maple Acer grandidentatum U.S. Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountain Maple Acer glabrum Western United States
Vine Maple Acer circinatum Pacific Coast of United States and Canada
Florida Maple Acer barbatum Southeast United States Coastal Plain and Piedmont


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