The allure of Hollywood comes to life through the residents of the St. Francis Hotel
In 1975, photographer Penny Wolin checked into the St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood — a place of dreamers and misfits who called the residential hotel home. There, the myth of Hollywood became real.
When she was 21 years old, Penny Wolin checked into a residential hotel in the heart of Hollywood.
The year was 1975 and the building was the St. Francis Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard — the same strip where movie legends have long immortalized their hand and footprints in wet cement.
The St. Francis was built in 1926, during the heyday of silent films, a place abuzz with the glitz and glamor of old
