| We passed this building over the mountain from Burbank to Hollywood. In case you can't make out what the sign and awning say, they say "Natural Healing" and "Organic Medicine". It just screamed California to me. |
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| We drove past the Hollywood Bowl. Look at all the traffic in the middle of a weekday. Actually it was mostly due to roadwork ahead. |
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| We ate lunch at a California Pizza Kitchen. I know they have them elsewhere, but this was a California California Pizza Kitchen. Anyway it was in a nice outdoor shopping center on Hollywood Boulevard from which you could see... |
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| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* ...the Hollywood sign. |
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| Okay, so you're asking who in the hell those people are. They are paparazzi. That's all their photographic equipment on the right. They were there for lunch before... |
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| ...the Daytime Emmy Awards. The red carpet was all set up and people were starting to arrive. We saw a couple of people from General Hospital on their way to the red carpet. I have no idea who the man was, but the woman was Jacklyn Zeman. (And for the record, no I didn't know her name at the time and I don't watch General Hospital. I have seen her on television ads for the show, though.) |
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| Down there is the entrance to the Kodak Theatre where the award ceremony took place. It is also where they hold the Oscars ceremony as well. |
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| The Kodak Theatre is attached to the shopping complex. |
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| We walked up and down Hollywood Boulevard and looked at the stars. Not actors and actresses. You wouldn't be likely to spot many there. But the ground is full of the famous stars on the Walk of Fame. This is the star for everyone's favorite 1970's brother and sister act, the Carpenters. (No offense to Donny and Marie Osmond.) |
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| M-I-C (See you real soon) K-E-Y (Why, well why the hell not?) M-O-U-S-E. |
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| Unless you are a Disneyphile, you probably would not recognize the names of brothers Richard and Robert Sherman. They wrote a lot of music for Disney films and park attractions among other things. |
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| No this is not a star for Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee and film and television actor. This is the star for someone called Fred Thomson. I didn't realize that at the time, though. I know absolutely nothing of his work. |
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| Submitted for your approval, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for a television pioneer. His shows were weird, usually had a twist at the end and often told a moral. You have just entered the Twilight Zone. |
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| It's hard to read the name on the star at the top and the glare makes the bottom star a little difficult to see as well, but they are George Burns (bottom) and Gracie Allen (top). One of the greatest comedy duos together forever on the sidewalk. |
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| Good evening. |
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| We knew the address on the street where the star for the band Chicago was located. Once we got there we stared walking back on the opposite side. It was a little hot and crowded to walk the entire distance of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street to see them all. |
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| The Duke. I don't need to say more. Maybe I do. I don't mean John "The Duke" Wayne obviously. |
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| Another hilarious comedy duo and another set of brothers. Dick and Tom Smothers. |
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| The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. Or was the pellet with the poison in the flagon with the dragon and the vessel with the pestle had the brew that is true. Oh hell, just drink it all. |
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| Walt has two stars. This is the one for his television work. A lot of people have multiple stars. Danny Kaye and George Burns each have three in various categories. |
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