NPR

The allure of Hollywood comes to life through the residents of the St. Francis Hotel

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Intimate portraits of St. Francis Hotel residents in 1975 capture a bygone Hollywood era

In the spring of 1975, Penny Wolin, a 21-year-old art student from Cheyenne, Wyo., moved into the storied St. Francis Hotel in Hollywood. The formerly upscale establishment, built in the 1920s, was by ...
The Guardian

A dreamer in a Hollywood hotel – Penny Wolin’s best photograph

‘This guy was the Sunday desk clerk at the sort of hotel where people might stay anything from one night to 30 years. One day, he wanted to open a roller rink in Pico Rivera’ I was a 21-year-old ...