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Easter Sunrise at the Hollywood Bowl

Wishing you and yours a safe, heartfelt, and Happy Easter weekend!

We were looking through the archive this past week and thought everyone might enjoy seeing a few photos from our collection of the Easter Sunrise Service at the Hollywood Bowl. 

The first service took place in March of 1921, when the property was still referred to as Daisy Dell. It was always considered a “nondenominational” service, attracting mostly Christian participants, but also heavily Protestant. W.A. Clark Jr’s Philharmonic Orchestra played from a crudely fashioned plank platform. The event was an immediate success and continued for decades, becoming an important part of the cultural fabric of Los Angeles. Historian E.O. Palmer said: “The Easter Sunrise Service…demonstrated the exquisite beauty and feasibility of music in the open and the exceptional acoustics of the Bowl.” (p. 212, History of Hollywood, 1937)

It was a really beautiful and moving experience, when the weather cooperated, complete with extraordinary flower arrangements of calla lilies, trumpeting Grecian goddesses, and performances by local choirs arranged in the formation of a "living cross". A holy celebration of faith and springtime, and a longstanding tradition for many Los Angeles residents and families.

To view more images of early Easter Sunrise Services at the Bowl, please click here and be sure to visit our website, hollywoodphotographs.com.

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Christianity stands or falls on the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The confidence we have in it is our support, and each gospel has record of it. Matthew 28:1-8. Many people in this world toss away the promise given in Jesus' kingship because they do not want the process of learning the Word. We are taught that if sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We are wary of anything given for nothing. This is an election year, and once again we've been given many promises we know will fall through. God promised a reigning king, and the disciples thought that had failed. But it didn't. His promises are not like the world's empty promises. God instead gave us emptiness full of promise- an empty cross, an empty tomb, and empty burial clothes. The empty cross symbolizes promise of forgiveness of sins. The world doesn't understand our hope. Because Jesus died, our sins are forgiven. There is no one else who lived a perfect life, much less who gave it for us. The empty tomb shows the power of life over death. It shows Jesus is alive. The empty burial clothes are explained in John 20:1-18. They tell that Jesus is amongst us. The empty cross, empty tomb, and empty burial clothes are all hope filled promises.

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I'm gonna have to drag my butt out of bed at 5:30 tomorrow morning. I have 3 and a half hours to sleep...is it even with going to bed at this point?