7 Responses to 'The Oscars'

1. 1. Tommi Nurminen says: March 5th, 2006 at 9:27 pm

   Here is the famous Hollywood sign too
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2. 2. Alex says: March 6th, 2006 at 12:47 am

   It’s a shame the Chinese Theatre is obscured by shadow, otherwise with the new resolution you could probably see some of the handprints.

3. 3. Rich says: March 6th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

   Any idea what this is?

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4. 4. gIMpSTa says: March 6th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

   lol. I submitted that a LONG time ago! (thanks for still including me!)

   I know it just went up now because the oscars just happened, but just kind of funny because that musta been at least 6 months ago!

5. 5. cookie monster says: March 6th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

   Rich - are they perhaps covered water storage tanks? They sit at the head of that small lake so maybe its a pumping house and small underground resevoir maybe.

6. 6. Tim says: March 6th, 2006 at 11:10 pm

   Hey, that’s the Hollywood Reservoir! Look to the south and you’ll see it’s bordered by the St. Francis Dam, which is shored up by a massive wall of soil, on which trees are growing. The reason for that is that the dam broke in 1928, causing a catastrophic flood that washed away acres of houses and trees and pretty much the whole area. To make sure it would never happen again they put that mound of dirt in front of the dam. As it turns out, the dam was actually built in an ancient fault line, but they couldn’t have known that when it was built. Nice sight Rich!

   Y’know, I probably should have submitted this, but it wouldn’t get posted till August.

7. 7. Alex says: March 9th, 2006 at 1:18 am

   > Y’know, I probably should have submitted this, but it wouldn’t get posted till August.

   Ha ha Tim, very funny I don’t think If you *had* submitted it, I think you would have been the **only** person to do so!