BGuthrie Photos: CA -- Los Angeles -- Mulholland Drive

CA -- Los Angeles -- Mulholland Drive:

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1. MUL_041104_018.JPG: Mulholland Scenic Corridor: Mulholland road was built in the 1920s "to take Angelinos from the city to the ocean." From parkway vista points you can see panoramas of the city, mountains and beaches, or hike trails into pockets of wilderness hidden in the canyons. Mulholland Scene Corridor runs approximately 50 miles from Griffith Park to Leo Carrillo State Beach, and links city, county, state, and federal parks within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. William Mulholland: This road was named for William Mulholland, former chief engineer for the Los Angeles City Water Department. As early as 1913, Mulholland promoted the concept of a scenic highway to make the mountains accessible to the people of Los Angeles.
2. MUL_041104_019.JPG: The Sign and the City: Like many chapters in the history of Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign began as a real estate promotion. A gigantic billboard was commissioned in 1923 to promote the development called "Hollywoodland." Mules hauled telegraph poles, sheet metal, and 4,000 light bulbs up the side of Mount Lee to create the sign. Several years later, a landslide destroyed the last four letters. Time and weather ravaged the rest of the sign, until the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce started the "Save the Sign" campaign in 1978. Patrons paid $27,700 per letter to rebuild the sign, now an internationally known landmark.
3. MUL_041104_036.JPG: The Hollywood Bowl: The Hollywood Bowl is an outdoor concert amphitheater, seating 18,000 people on grounds totalling 110 acres. Hollywood's Theatre Arts Alliance purchased the land in 1919 to create a park and arts center. Permanent seating was installed on the graded hillside in 1926. Since then, the Bowl has grown from a community arts center to a world-famous performance site. The Hollywood Bowl is the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra shown performing here in 1994.
4. MUL_041104_038.JPG: The Sign and the City. Like many chapters in the history of Los Angeles, the Hollywood sign began as a real estate promotion. A gigantic billboard was commissioned in 1923 to promote the development called "Hollywoodland." Mules hauled telegraph poles, sheet metal, and 4,000 light bulbs up the side of Mount Lee to create the sign. Several years later, a landslide destroyed the last four letters. Time and weather ravaged the rest of the sign, until the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce started the "Save the Sign" campaign in 1978. Patrons paid $27,700 per letter to rebuild the sign, now an internationally known landmark.
5. MUL_041104_042.JPG: The City That Dreams Built. Los Angles began as a small pueblo, isolated by mountains and desert and the lack of a good harbor. The region also lacked coal, iron, timber, and water -- all necessary for industrial growth. Oranges, oil, movies, and tourism spurred economic development. By the early 20th century, railroads were built, a harbor was dredged, and water was piped in from the Sierra Nevada and the Colorado River. Los Angeles has grown to be among the largest and most dynamic urban centers in the world.
6. MUL_041104_100.JPG: The Hollywood Bowl: The Hollywood Bowl is an outdoor concert amphitheater, seating 18,000 people on grounds totalling 110 acres. Hollywood's Theatre Arts Alliance purchased the land in 1919 to create a park and arts center. Permanent seating was installed on the graded hillside in 1926. Since then, the Bowl has grown from a community arts center to a world-famous performance site. The Hollywood Bowl is the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra shown performing here in 1994.
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Wikipedia Description: Mulholland Drive
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Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway.

The mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, connecting two sections of the U.S. Route 101, and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Coldwater Canyon, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Nichols Canyon and Outpost. It offers views of both the Los Angeles basin and the San Fernando Valley.

The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs parallel to the 101). The road continues to the east offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign, downtown Los Angeles and then Burbank, Universal City and the rest of the San Fernando Valley.

The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the 405 Freeway. At this point (the intersection with Encino Hills Drive) the drive becomes an unpaved route not open to motor vehicles. It is popular with hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bikers, and offers connections to other unpaved fire roads and mountain bike trails as well as a decommissioned Project Nike command post that has been turned into a Cold War memorial park .

The paved road begins again just east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Shortly thereafter, Mulholland Drive splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway. Mulholland Drive terminates at the 101 where it becomes Valley Circle Boulevard. Mulholland Highway continues to the southwest until it terminates at California State Route 1 in Leo Carrillo State Park near the Pacific Ocean and the border of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

The main portion of the road, from the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood westward past the Sepulveda Pass was originally called Mulholl ...More...
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2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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