Afterlife

In a city full of recently embalmed architecture few buildings look as un-dead as the corner shopping Plaza. Take the one at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and North Fuller Avenue in Hollywood California. A squat rectangle of stucco and drywall it offers everything we've come to expect in a corner 'convenience center': a pizza parlor a doughnut shop a cell phone store a massage parlor an immigration lawyer a check-cashing service and a coin Laundromat. There's the requisite oil-stained parking lot the brick enclosed dumpster some spindly palms and an imposing street sign with every business name in a different font color and size. The corner Plaza has standard principles: L-shaped and usually situated at a busy intersection driveway access from two streets free parking but never enough a variety of goods and services in separate concessions but all in a single place. The anchor tenant now most commonly a Cannabis Dispensary. In this collection of 46 photographs all shot in Hollywood in April of 2022 Glen Rubsamen documents his awe and appreciation for the corner Plaza convenience center.