I first learned of the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine while reading a Dennis the Menace comic as a young boy. The famed Taft Building still stands here, once home to offices of the silent film era’s movers and shakers including Charlie Chaplin and Will Rogers. Nearby, of course, are other landmarks such as the Capitol Records Building, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood sign and Graumann’s Chinese Theater.
And then, there’s this. A few weeks before Halloween, these early celebrants paraded on this famous corner of Hollywood and Vine—in fact, the Zombies were on parade. They groaned, they grunted, they limped on wounded limbs. They stared their otherworldly, blank stare into my eyes. And then, to my relief, they moved on without capturing me to join in their ghoulish procession.