Excellent solving of a mystery in the notes. These L.A. photo mysteries are wonderful, and BK is way better than I would be at solving them.
In this one, with no theater name on that parking sign, I might have thought there was nothing to go on except for that white building, which I never would have recognized and don't remember at all. BUT ... if Belmondo had been an inch or two to the left, OR if the photographer had been an inch or two to the right, the little church at the end of Las Palmas would have been an immediate giveaway for me. There's even a little bit of it in the photo, but not enough to be recognizable. If you lived in Hollywood, the sight of that church from the Boulevard is as iconic as the Miceli's sign or the newsstand or the Gold Cup.
Question for BK: Could the beautiful old streetlamp on the right at least have identified the locale as Hollywood, or were those prevalent all around town? And are any of that style left, perhaps in some of the residential streets in the hills? I loved that style even when I lived there.
