Kim K. Fahlstedt is a historian of film and culture based in Stockholm and Washington, D.C. He has written about Chinatown, moviegoing, and cinematic zoology. He is currently working on a book about the life and persona of Warner Oland. 
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Prologue to Hollywood: Sid Grauman and the San Francisco Origins of Tinseltown Spectacle
While Grauman is mostly known for spectacular venues reflecting Hollywood’s film fantasies, his early San Francisco period indicates that throughout his career he showed remarkable consistency in referring to the[…]
