Hollywood & Highland looks like this now?

Dubai?

I’m going to Dubai!

I miss the elephants

it looka lika mall

THE MINIMALISTIC DECOR IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE CONVERSATION!

That grass looks like it’s being frogmarched by a firing squad.

Melania probably has her architectural hands all over this.

Rose Garden 2.0!

It looks like the entrance to Hitler’s branch of Nobu.

It’s really just a blank slate to put advertising on

R9 ok that make sense but it’s even more terrifying

the old one looked bigger but it was getting a bit tacky.

Hollywood is unattractive, uninviting and depressing. They're trying...failing but trying.

Anything interesting in Hollywood happens behind closed doors, usually with a security guard in front of it.

Hollywood is seedy and dilapidated but still has some glorious old-school places

Renamed to Ovation Hollywood too

I heard the Hollywood sign will be remodeled to be in emojis.

What happened to all the street trade that used to be on that corner?

Is Jumbo’s Clown Room still going strong, R14?

I used to love gritty and seedy Hollywood. Now it’s turned into a landing pad for obese fraus from the south who claim to detest Hollywood, but force their families into a plane towards LAX on the regular, only to photograph themselves standing next to a “STAR” on HW Blvd., for the Gram.

😂🤣😂

Many, many years ago I used to hang out at the Frolic Room. Area was seedy, but I loved looking for the "Nina's" hidden in the Al Hirschfeld wall paper.

R19, the Frolic Room was my first Los Angeles Bar experience ever.

We became regulars, in our senior year in high school.

Life so fun & simple then. Even safe, might I add.

There's still Musso and Frank, a fun place for a drink and dinner.

R21, AND they used to serve up a mean Long Island Iced Tea., for those of us who preferred “longer lunches”.

An honest bartender is priceless, when one has the luxury of youth and zero bruises.

Lol!

The Frolic Room, Boardner’s, and Musso & Frank are classic. I don’t like the way they’ve simplified the menu at Musso’s, but it’s still a fun place to go to. It’s also comforting. Gore Vidal said that entering Musso’s was like stepping into a warm bath.

My brother and I like to go to Musso’s and munch on celery stuffed with Roquefort mousse while we drink martinis and read the menu. We used to like the French-cut lamb chops, but they’ve been off the menu for a while. So we’ll go for the Lobster Thermidor instead. After a couple of Musso’s martinis, even the Hollywood and Highland development doesn’t look so bad.

Looks good.

Just be thank Musso is still in business, because if the family didn't own the building they would be long gone.

That should be thankful

Am I tripping or was that place the Babylonian set from Griffith's Intolerance, 1915?

R28 Itwas modeled on the set from Griffith’s Intolerance. One of the reasons that the Hollywood/Highland’s new owners gave for demolishing it was that D. W. Griffith was also director of the racist film Birth of a Nation.

The lesbian nightclub scene in Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia was partly filmed at The Frolic Room.

The complex was purchased by DJM Capital Partners (San Jose) and Gaw Capital (Hong Kong), renamed Ovation Hollywood and is still being renovated, I think.

Frolic Room is great for a drink before seeing a musical at the Pantages. And great for an intermission pee and drink.

Leave it venture capitalists to make everything look like a glass and concrete version of Godzilla.

Sure, Hollywood was seedy AF, but it was a town where if you went looking for adventure, you were sure as fuck gonna find trouble… the fun kind, when you were a kid who still hadn’t a clue that there’s a distinction between trouble, and fun.

I can't imagine a restaurant in Hollywood used in more films than Musso. I went up to watch some filming for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. That was a blast.

Was just there for the first time in a year after having lived in the area at one point for 6-7 years. It was never an amazing design, but the kitschy faux top of-Hollywood studio era design was at least something unique and memorable. This is just bleak looking. I had high hopes when the new ownership took over — this ain’t it.

R34 Musso’s has often been used as a stand-in for a Manhattan restaurant in a fair number of films. In Mad Men, they used both Musso’s Old Room and New Room a number of times.

They have been trying to revive that area for decades. I remember going to the opening of the El Capitan when Disney did its renovation, and 6 months later idiots have carved crap into beautiful wood molding.

Part of the problem these days, is that traffic is so bad most people seem to hang in their own neighborhoods. So Hollywood has lots of tourist trash. Yes, Musso is destination dining for many but even Nancy Silverton is struggling at The Barish.

R37 is right. I lived two blocks away from that place in the mid-2000s and the complex is in a cluster of a location. Even then it was trashy.

I'm sure the patrons are more interested in what's at the food court.

Not sure why so many here are upset; it was never known as a place where gays went.

True. But I remember cruising Hollywood Blvd. In the 70s when I was underage. Picked up my first guy there. Afterwards, he took me to eat at Hamburger Hamlet.