"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." That's the last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. And this is North Laurel Avenue here in Hollywood, where Fitzgerald spent the last few years of his life, looking much the same as it did in the late thirties, when Fitzgerald lived here and had his first heart attack in Schwab's Drug Store up on the corner. The apartment building where Fitzgerald lived is long gone, but these remain...
more »"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." That's the last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. And this is North Laurel Avenue here in Hollywood, where Fitzgerald spent the last few years of his life, looking much the same as it did in the late thirties, when Fitzgerald lived here and had his first heart attack in Schwab's Drug Store up on the corner. The apartment building where Fitzgerald lived is long gone, but these remain – one Colonial and one an Italianate villa. This is Old Hollywood – and the Art Deco extravaganza is one block over on North Hayworth, where Fitzgerald ended up. The gossip columnist Sheilah Graham lived on North Hayworth. She took him in. Fitzgerald had two flights of stairs to climb to his apartment and hers was on the ground floor. It didn't matter. He died there, and this is the scene of all of that – the past. ~ Friday, February 15, 2019
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