I've been wanting to photograph these old signs for ages. Everytime I turn on Riverside Drive to take the I-5 South, I see them and comment to Elysabeth, "I've gotta come down here and shoot these signs." So, I finally did. There's a chain link fence around them which makes it impossible to get all the shots I wanted.
The lighting wasn't perfect. It was late afternoon, which I initially thought would be good, but because of the position of the signs relative to the sun, I think the early morning sun might be better. I'm going to try again.
I did a little research on where this hotel might have been. I found one Hotel Californian in Fresno and one in San Francisco. I wonder who these signs belong to. They seem to be on LA City land with a nice fence around them. Does the city own them? If so, why? Anyway, they're very cool. I love this era of signage. There are literally dozens of this type of sign on buildings in Hollywood. Hopefully I can shoot some of them too, one day. In fact, I have a little fantasy about the Hollywood Church. I'd love to replace our ugly sign on the freeway with one of these that stands up from the roof.
You can picture it can't you? Oh yea!
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