response to Martinis at 8
Actually, that was the only time I didn't go to school in southern California. I spent my jr. high school days in Oakland at McChesney Jr High - which I really hated. When I returned to Hollywood and entered HHS I also started working at Grauman's Chinese as an usher. So school was half days and I had more friends at work than at school.
Martini - I'm one of the older members on the board. When I was a kid we used to sneak into an old castle on Franklin and Argyle to play, which I later found out was the home of a silent Japanese movie star. The last I knew it had become a gas station.
I remember the old Hollywood Hotel and the red cars. I learned to drive (before I was old enough to even get a permit) on the roads leading to the Griffith Observatory. We used to hang out there and then I saw REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Hadn't seen the Observatory since then and I am told I wouldn't recognize any of the area. Hollywood was actually a safe place to be a child. Mostly midwesterners and southerners. It seemed everybody was an extra or something. It was during the sixties that the big influx of New Yorkers started and everything changed. Was glad to leave when the time came.
Actually, that was the only time I didn't go to school in southern California. I spent my jr. high school days in Oakland at McChesney Jr High - which I really hated. When I returned to Hollywood and entered HHS I also started working at Grauman's Chinese as an usher. So school was half days and I had more friends at work than at school.
Martini - I'm one of the older members on the board. When I was a kid we used to sneak into an old castle on Franklin and Argyle to play, which I later found out was the home of a silent Japanese movie star. The last I knew it had become a gas station.
I remember the old Hollywood Hotel and the red cars. I learned to drive (before I was old enough to even get a permit) on the roads leading to the Griffith Observatory. We used to hang out there and then I saw REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Hadn't seen the Observatory since then and I am told I wouldn't recognize any of the area. Hollywood was actually a safe place to be a child. Mostly midwesterners and southerners. It seemed everybody was an extra or something. It was during the sixties that the big influx of New Yorkers started and everything changed. Was glad to leave when the time came.