Hooray for Cahuenga! Somehow, it doesn’t have the same ring, does it? The area now called Hollywood was once known as Nopalera (or Prickly-Pear Field in Spanish) and later as Cahuenga Valley. Then, in 1896, developer HJ Whitley supposedly asked a local Chinese merchant what he was doing with his wagon-load of timber. The response came…

Maybe it’s just me, but I seem to see microcosms of our world whenever I put the camera’s viewfinder to my eye. Here’s a perfect example. We were walking along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles recently, when this building caught my eye. Not the bright, garish Wax Museum – but the abandoned Art Deco structure…