gs-- your north-on-the-Harbor shot brought my attention to a skyscrapercity.com forum that somehow I didn't even know existed. In it I found this shot:
verner_oscarâ„¢'s photostream
I'm posting this because when I recently posted a current Google Street View shot of Grauman's Chinese to align with yours of the theater in 1953, I wasn't aware that between
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and now, it was missing its vertical "CHINESE" signs and that marquees covered the arches.
BUT--more important is the set of pictures from verner_oscarâ„¢'s photostream to which the picture above belongs. It is in a color series of all sorts of L.A. locations in the '60s:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=345