Hollywood Walk of Fame (USA) – description, history, location. Exact address, phone number, website. Reviews of tourists, photos and videos.
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“Immortalized in Concrete” is about the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The courtyard of Grauman’s magnificent Chinese Theater is covered in concrete slabs with prints of the hands, feet, and, in exceptional cases, the paws of celebrities. Unlike the Avenue of Stars, the local “get-together” is not at all massive – the history of cinema is long, and less than two hundred figures of the magical world of cinema have been honored to “inherit”.
Among the “inhuman” prints on the Walk of Fame are Harold Lloyd’s glasses and Harry Potter’s wand.
A bit of history
The history of the Walk of Fame began in 1926, as is often the case with all ingenious ideas, by accident. During the construction of the Chinese theater, preparatory work was carried out on its future courtyard, in particular, cement was stirred. Silent film actress Norma Tolmadge, rushing to rehearsal, stepped on the raw material and left her mark. Sid Grauman picked up the idea – and a year later, footprints of the stars began to appear in the courtyard of the Chinese Theater. At the same time, the Walk of Fame was the most “undemocratic” evidence of being chosen: only the owners of the theater determined the lucky ones.
Until recently, celebrities left prints directly on the surface of the Walk of Fame, poured in fresh concrete, for which they had to lie on a red carpet specially spread for this occasion. Now the stars are invited to “kiss” the surface of the concrete form – after a while the material will harden and the slab will be erected in its proper place.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
What to see
The Walk of Fame is a rare case when you need to look only at your feet while sightseeing. For almost a century, the most prominent figures of the cinema have “painted” in front of the facade of the Chinese theater. On the first slabs, the stars also signed wishes for Sid Grauman, later the tradition changed, and modern slabs bear the prints of the palms and shoes of celebrities and their autographs.
When planning a visit to Grauman’s Chinese Theater, it makes sense to familiarize yourself with the location of the slabs on the Walk of Fame in advance – it is easy to get lost in names and prints on the spot.
Among the most popular are the slabs of Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Depp and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, Michael Jackson (with the imprint of his diamond gloves and shoes), Frank Sinatra, etc. Fonda and Jackie Chan. The four-legged actors were also not forgotten – on the Walk of Fame there are paw prints of the beloved Commissioner Rex, the shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Among other things, the concrete captured the contours of popular cinematic objects: Harold Lloyd’s glasses, Harry Potter’s wand, full-length legs of the beauty of the 50s Betty Grable and Bob Hope’s nose.
Slab laying ceremonies
The Walk of Fame is replenished with prints quite rarely – no more than 2-3 times a year. Accordingly, the ceremony of laying the next slab turns into a significant event, which is not easy to get to, but possible. In addition to the fact that you need to “stake out” a place for yourself on an already limited patch for the public as early as possible, the matter rests on banal luck: the main action takes place at the sidewalk level, and you simply may not see the idol behind the back of some tall spectator in front of you … Information about the ceremony is posted long before the event on the website of Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
Address: Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
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