Friday, September 21, 2007

Hollywood Blvd & the El Capitan Theater

Last Saturday evening, we saw The Jungle Book at the El Capitan theater in Hollywood. As we've mention previously, the El Capitan is owned by Disney. They were showing Jungle Book in honour of the 40th anniversary of its release. It was a lot of fun to see an old school Disney film, released long before we were born, on the big screen.

Since we were going to be out in Hollywood for the evening we decided to go a bit early and take some pictures of the area landmarks. The picture of us was taken at the mall. They have a few walkways that are open towards the Hollywood sign so tourists can take pictures. The little white line on the hill in the background is the HOLLYWOOD sign. We decided another, zoomed in, picture was necessary so that people could actually read it.
Attached to the mall is the Kodak Theater, home of the Academy Awards. We should also mention that Hollywood Blvd is lined with buskers and impersonators. This picture of the Kodak Theater is complete with a Snoopy, Batman, Hulk, Paratrooper and Darth Vader.

While walking around we kept our eyes on the ground for any stars of interest. We came across a few that were picture-worthy, but thought it fitting to put the picture of Mickey's star here.
The very orange picture (below) of a man playing the organ was taken in the El Capitan, just before the show started. He plays every night, entertaining waiting patrons with a medley of various Disney songs. The audience even sings along with the more familiar tunes.

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