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Title: Stairway to Heaven, or, the Hollywood Hills
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator: McCulloh, Douglas
Contributor: Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 200-
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.
Photographer's caption reads, "I visited the 148 vertiginous steps between Westshire and Hollyridge Drives, constructed as part of the original Hollywoodland subdivision. It's the exact spot where the zombie townspeople of "Santa Mira" pursue Dana Wynter and Kevin McCarthy in the final minutes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The townspeople are icily conformist duplicates spawned by space-borne pods, perfect imposters who kill and replace their human victims. "They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom," says a zombie character. "Tomorrow you'll be one of us. There's no need for love... Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them life is so simple, believe me." From the steps you look out across the multi-million dollar mansions of the Hollywood Hills."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00081656
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b4_f2_i33
CARL0004974191
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3796
Subject: Hillside landscape architecture--California--Los Angeles
Mansions--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Stairs--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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