'Driving to the Bowl' Exhibition at Hollywood Bowl Open; Auto Club Vintage Photos and Maps Featured at Museum at the Premier Summer Cultural Venue.HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Did you know that the Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the , one of Southern California's cultural icons, helped to shape transportation in the region? In a new exhibition produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. in cooperation with The Edmund D. Edelman Edmund D. Edelman served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 until 1974, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He served for the County office for twenty years until his retirement in 1994. He was succeeded in both offices by Zev Yaroslavsky. Hollywood Bowl Museum, the design of Highland Avenue, the ceremonial role of Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and development of Cahuenga Pass The Cahuenga Pass (IPA: [kə'wɛŋgə]) (from the indigenous Tongva language) (el. 745 ft. / 227 m) is a mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood district of the City are all traced through vintage photographs and maps. The year-long exhibition, "Driving to the Bowl," is now open at the premier summer cultural venue with photographs and maps from the Auto Club Corporate Archives and the Hollywood Bowl Collection. The exhibit will be open 10 a.m. until show time Tuesdays through Saturday. The hours are 4 p.m. until show time on Sundays. The show will switch to off-season hours on Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The exhibition will continue through June 23, 2006. "The Hollywood Bowl has been a central part of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. cultural life since it opened in 1922," said the Auto Club's Historian Matthew Roth. "This exhibit shows how it also had a profound impact on development patterns in the Cahuenga Pass areas and the other transportation patterns throughout much of the city." The exhibition features vintage photographs and historical information about Hollywood Boulevard, Highland Avenue, the Cahuenga Pass and the Hollywood Freeway. The exhibit also features original artwork for the Auto Club's historic maps, hand-drawn ink-on-vellum renderings, which offer a unique insight into the creation of maps that accompanied growth of regional transportation networks. For example, the exhibit features the Auto Club's 1912 "Automobile Touring Route from Los Angeles through San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and Return." Roth, and Archivist ARCHIVIST. One to whose care the archives have been confided. Morgan Yates and the Hollywood Bowl's Curator Carol Merrill-Mirsky produced the show. Hunt Design of Pasadena created the exhibit design which was customized for the second-floor gallery. "We considered an exhibit about maps of the Hollywood Bowl area for a long time," said Merrill-Mirsky. "We realized that a partnership with the Auto Club involving the curators and collections from each institution would be much stronger." Along with the natural amphitheatre's grounds, the exhibition is free to Auto Club members and the public. The Hollywood Bowl is located at 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. From the Hollywood (101) Freeway, exit at Highland Avenue. The museum is located on the Hollywood Bowl grounds, adjacent to the Patio Restaurant. For more museum information, call 323-850-2058. |
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