In 1975, photographer Penny Wolin checked into the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood — a place of dreamers and misfits who called the residential hotel home. There, the myth of Hollywood became real.
Photographer Penny Wolin set out to capture the residents of the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood in 1975.Photographer Penny Wolin set out to capture the residents of the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood in 1975.When she was 21 years old, Penny Wolin checked into a residential hotel in the heart of Hollywood.
Its rooms were filled with people who felt like they didn't quite fit anywhere else. People whose dreams, as she put it, were bigger than their rooms."People stayed there either for the night or 30 years — and anywhere in between," Wolin told NPR. Nearly 50 years since her stay, Wolin's photographs and the stories she heard have been turned into a book,. Included are photos of everything from an American man in his 70s and his new French-born girlfriend, to the empty room that had belonged to a stuntman until he died the night before Wolin was due to photograph him."I would see this fellow that would leave in the morning, and he was a muscular plumber," Wolin recalls.
"It just warmed my heart," Wolin says."They were just these great guys from Nebraska that said, 'Let's go to Hollywood.'"For many of the residents of St. Francis, it was the myth of Hollywood that drew them to the city. Wolin says that idea is alive and well, and can still hold true. She describes Hollywood not just as a geographical location, but an existential place.
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