Hollywood Off The Beaten Path Tips by Krystynn

This is a glimpse of ... Postcards Review

This is a glimpse of <b>Hollywood Boulevard</b> through the swinging Sixties...

This is also the era which turned young and refreshing starlets like <i>Jane Fonda, Raquel Welch, Goldie Hawn</i>... into mega-stars and multi-millionaires! :-)

<i>Ah</i>. life can be soooo unfair!

This is a postcard of ... Postcards Review

This is a postcard of <b>Hollywood Boulevard</b> in the Fifties. Sorry... the card had turned yellowish.... so, I had it changed to this color instead.

Well, this is the era which hailed legendary stars like <i>Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Grace Kelly</i> and a whole hosts of glamorous Hollywood stars who brought glamor to new dizzying heights! :-)
Wish I were born in THIS era!

If you wish to rub shoulders... Celebrities / Studio Tours Review

If you wish to rub shoulders with some famous Hollywood celebrities, maybe you'd like to take note of the following:-
<ul>
<li> <a href='http://www.tvtix.com/'target=newwindow>Free TV Tickets</a>.

You get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to watch a TV taping in L.A. You can order these tickets online via the website. Or, for more info, send these kind folks an email at: <b>tvtix@tvtix.com</b>.</li>

<li> <a href='http://store.paramount.com/studio_tour.html'target=newwindow>Paramount Pictures</a>.

Addres: 860 N. Gower St. (<i>between Santa Monica Blvd. and Melrose Avenue</i>)

5451 Marathon Ave. and Melrose, Hollywood, CA

Information: 956-5575 (<i>for television show tickets</i>)

Information: 956-1777 (<i>studio tour information</i>).

<b>TV show tickets are available August through March.</b>

Two hour guided tours of sound stages, wardrobe, production and sets of the Paramount Pictures film and TV complex is available 9:00am - 2:00pm
weekdays. </li>

<li> <a href='http://home.nbci.com/LMOID/bb/fd/0,946,-0-2757,00.html' target=newwindow>NBC TV Studio & Tours (Channel 4)</a>.

3000 W. Alameda Ave. Burbank, CA

Information: 840-3537 (<i>Show tickets and tours</i>).

Television studio tours are one-hour long and can include show tapings, wardrobe and make-up departments, rehearsal halls, scenery shops and
immediate seating in a studio audience.

<b>Tours are 9:00am - 3:00pm weekdays, with longer hours and Saturday tours in summer and on holidays.</b> </li>

<li> <a href='http://www.celebritycribs.com/'target=newwindow>Home of Hollywood Stars</a>. These are some of the addresses listed in the site. Now, DON'T go stalking <i>Brad Pitt</i> or <i>Madonna</i>! </li>

<li> <a href='http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/2800/starmap.html' target=newwindow>Addresses & Maps to Homes of the Famous Hollywood Celebrities</a>. <i>Need I say more?</i> </li>
</ul>

Have fun chasing after your favorite Hollywood celeb! And don't tell them I sent you...!

<b><font color=red>Photo Below: This is the grave of Andy Gibb (the tragic youngest brother of the Gibb brothers aka 'Bee Gees' who died of a drug overdose in 1980....). His burial site is situated in the world-renowned Forest Lawn here in the Hollywood Hills.

<i>Photo courtesy of Gary Wayne.</i></b></font>

Here's a series of postcards... Postcards Review

Here's a series of postcards (<i>thanks Mom!</i>) showing <b>Hollywood Boulevard</b> through the different era.... beginning with the roaring Twenties.... when <i>Mary Pickford</i> and <i>Douglas Fairbanks</i> reigned supreme in the movies.

Once upon a time, the area... Celebrities / Studio Tours Review

Once upon a time, the area called <b><u>Hollywood</b></u> was the home to many movie pioneers. As you can see, many of these historic sites are not in ruins today..... In fact they continue to be thriving production factories.

<i>For avid movie buffs, if you have some time to spare, why not sign up for a Studio's Tour? </i>

<b>Photo Below: The Paramount Studios showing one of the two new main gates on Melrose Avenue.</b>

<i>Address:</i> 5500 Melrose Avenue, Central Hollywood.

I'm not too sure how the Paramount story began but I DO know that when the great Adolph Zukor took over Paramount Pictures (and the new production company was named Paramount Pictures)..... the then-America's Sweetheart (no, NOT Julia Roberts...!) - Mary Pickford
provided the box-office punch for Zukor as he built Paramount into the nations leading film company to what it is today. Paramount's roster of stars included the great <i>Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper</i>, the comedy team <i>Bob Hope</i> and <i>Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Mae West, William Holden</i> as well as <i>Dean Martin</i> and <i>Jerry Lewis</i>. Paramount was home to a stable of world-famous movie directors like <i>Cecil B. de Mille</i>.