'This Side of Paradise' at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens

A1991 photograph by John Humble shows Selma Avenue at Vine Street as a jumbled, architecturally constructed Hollywood landscape of office buildings, stores, asphalt and advertising billboards. Dominating the center is Angelyne, the cosmetically manufactured "human Barbie doll," who adorns one enormous sign.

By Christopher Knight

June 18, 2008