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Title: Closer view of the Hollywood Bowl and vicinity
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The "Bowl" officially opened on July 11, 1922 on the site of a natural amphitheater formerly known as the Daisy Dell. It has undergone several upgrades to improve seating as well as acoustics. Today, this magnificent open-aired amphitheater has a seating capacity of 17,376 and is the home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, as well as the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Aerial view of the Hollywood Bowl nestled in the mountains on the right, the Hollywood Freeway and Cahuenga Pass are on the left. View is looking toward Hollywood.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;14 x 12 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00087804
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b21_f2_i17 (Photographic print); KHAF 171-1
CARL0004851440
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4099
Subject: Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Amphitheaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Express highways--California, Southern
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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