Hollywood Then and Now - July 2022

Talk about night and day.   This is a Then and Now that couldn't be more then and now.

So, here in the Los Angeles hinterlands, there was baseball before the Dodgers moved here from Brooklyn in 1958.   Oh, it was minor league for sure.   A team called the "Hollywood Stars" and no, I'm not talking about Errol Flynn in center field.   Probably a bunch of semi-pros tossing the ball around.   But, for people here starved for the sports, it was a game to go to.   And, if you wanted to watch them, the stadium was Gilmore Field on Fairfax and Beverly.

Actually looks like a decent place for baseball.  Oh, and unlike Wrigley Field in Chicago at the time, they had lights.

But, as most cities do, they figure out that the population shouldn't have nice things and the property was sold to a real estate developer.   That was in 1952 and they had to wait another six years for the next shot at a baseball game.

So what did said developer put in place of Gilmore Field?

CBS Television City.   How's that for a gear shift?

Ladies and gentlemen, now playing second base...Bob Barker.

Dinner last night:  Mozzarella and sun dried tomatoes.