Last week, I was up in the Hollywood area and I happened across something. At the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Kenmore, there's a Burger King. Behind the Burger King, there's an alley where someone — I have no idea who or why — has painted some walls with graffiti of (mostly) Hanna-Barbera characters. It appears to be the work of several artists and while most of them signed their work, I couldn't make out any names. Some of the drawings are pretty good.
This was apparently done in the last year. I did a Google Maps search for the alley and found an image from June of 2015 that has all different imagery on the walls. Here it is. (If you're reading this post after June of 2016, that photo may have changed.)
Here are four photos I took. As you can see, they show Huckleberry Hound, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, the cast of Jonny Quest, Wally Gator and — for some reason — Underdog, who was not a Hanna-Barbera character. There were other H-B stars there too, though no Top Cat. Since Top Cat lived in an alley, he would have been my first thought.
I'm curious about who did these and why. It did not appear to be unauthorized graffiti. The folks who did all this were probably out there for several days and they were painting over other paintings. The location is a few blocks from the non-profit Children's Hospital Los Angeles but it's not close enough that I can imagine any connection.
If anyone has any knowledge of whodunnit, lemme know. In the meantime, take a look at these pics. You can make them larger by clicking on them…
