Hollywood Then and Now - November 2021

I frequently lament here about how the grand movie palaces are disappearing.  They are gone in most cities.   New York has lost all of them, save for Radio City Music Hall which never shows films anymore.

Los Angeles, however, has tried hard to buck that trend.   And nothing looks more like the same throughout the years than the infamous Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.   With its footprints in the forecourt and the opulent auditorium inside, history has stopped here.   You can see it in these photos.

From the days in 1964 when they ran "Mary Poppins" there.

Or a decade and a half later when "Raiders of the Lost Ark" played there.

To 2021.

Still playing films.  Still open.   Still thriving.

Very heartening.

Dinner last night:  Hibachi Steak at the Chessecake Factory.