Can You Identify Any of the Allusions D.C.A. Makes to Specific Places?

[PragmaticIdealist]

Am I crazy, or was that overpowering burnt coffee smell at D.C.A.'s entrance identical to the pervasive scent one finds at L.A.'s Union Station?

[Kath2188]

The Victorians are from Alamo Square (specifically Steiner Street) in San Francisco:

[themur]

Great thread. It is great to see photos from the buildings that inspired the design in DCA.

[Kath2188]

Okay the obvious:
Grand Californian = Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemitee

[Kath2188]

Even more obvious:
Folks, will the Real Golden Gate Bridge, please take a bow:

[Tom Chaney]

The entrance to "Hollywood Blvd." is patterned after the "Hollywood and Highland" complex in Hollywood.

http://home.att.net/~tomchaney/la_20_bg_052204.jpg

If you look closely through the topmost opening of the "arch" you'll see that the architects cleverly angled the structure to point directly to the famous HOLLYWOOD sign.

[Kath2188]

Folks, will the Real California Zephyr please take a bow:

[Kath2188]

For example, one of the most obvious allusions is the Golden Dreams entrance, which is a replica of the rotunda from the Beaux-Arts Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

Just thought I would add the original pics (the B&W is from 1912)




And of course Disney's:

[PragmaticIdealist]

The entrance to "Hollywood Blvd." is patterned after the "Hollywood and Highland" complex in Hollywood.

http://pdphoto.org/jons/pictures4/la_20_bg_052204.jpg

If you look closely through the topmost opening of the "arch" you'll see that the architects cleverly angled the structure to point directly to the famous HOLLYWOOD sign.

Actually, both D.C.A.'s Hollywood gates and the Hollywood and Highland complex are re-creations of an inconceivably large movie set that was built for the D.W. Griffith film, "Intolerance".

After the film had been made, leaving the set standing was cheaper than demolishing it, so it became a fixture on the landscape. When Walt Disney first arrived in California in 1923, he went to see his brother who was in the hospital and, immediately afterwards, the younger Disney visited the "Intolerance" set.

Try spotting all the little people. The picture is amazing.

http://www.moma.org/images/collectio...olerance_2.jpg

[Kath2188]

The entrance to "Hollywood Blvd." is patterned after the "Hollywood and Highland" complex in Hollywood.

http://home.att.net/~tomchaney/la_20_bg_052204.jpg

If you look closely through the topmost opening of the "arch" you'll see that the architects cleverly angled the structure to point directly to the famous HOLLYWOOD sign.

Love this picture - the original


And the Movie version:

[Tom Chaney]

Actually, both D.C.A.'s Hollywood gates and the Hollywood and Highland complex are re-creations of an inconceivably large movie set that was built for the D.W. Griffith film, "Intolerance".

After the film had been made, leaving the set standing was cheaper than demolishing it, so it became a fixture on the landscape. When Walt Disney first arrived in California in 1923, he went to see his brother who was in the hospital and, immediately afterwards, the younger Disney visited the "Intolerance" set.

Try spotting all the little people. The picture is amazing.

http://www.moma.org/images/collectio...olerance_2.jpg

Thank you. I didn't know that. I love finding out stuff like this.

[k_peek_2000]

The entrance to "Hollywood Blvd." is patterned after the "Hollywood and Highland" complex in Hollywood.

http://home.att.net/~tomchaney/la_20_bg_052204.jpg

If you look closely through the topmost opening of the "arch" you'll see that the architects cleverly angled the structure to point directly to the famous HOLLYWOOD sign.

You beat me to it!!!!

[PragmaticIdealist]

Here's the Hyperion Theatre:

http://lostworld.pair.com/disneyland...6_hyperion.jpg

Again, the original site is not located in Hollywood.

[PragmaticIdealist]

By the way, I think I'd like D.C.A.'s elephants more if they were facing each other.

[Kath2188]

Pacific Wharf is based on the Old Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey.