Happy Birthday, Bob

Legendary comedian Bob Hope is present only as a Hirschfeld caricature at a 100th birthday celebration in Hope's hometown, the Toluca Lake district of Los Angeles. The ailing comic spends most of his time at his Toluca Lake estate and has made no public appearances in recent years.

Earl Brown of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation tries to cover a sign before a ceremony dedicating the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street as Bob Hope Square in Los Angeles, May 29, 2003. The event was held on the entertainer's 100th birthday.

Michael F. Trochan holds a photo of himself taken while serving in Vietnam, in New York's Rockfeller Center. He remembers seeing the Bob Hope Show in Danang on Christmas 1970. "Like, we still talk about 'Remember the Alamo?'" said Trochan, who was a radio repair worker with the 101st Airborne Division. "I think we should say, 'Remember the Bob Hope show,' because it was important. It brought us together."

A man walks his dog past a mural of the legendary entertainer in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, May 28, 2003. The ailing comic was not expected to appear at any of the numerous birthday celebrations in his honor.

Portraits of Dolores Hope, left, and Bob Hope are displayed at the Bob Hope Hollywood USO center at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles.

Banners celebrating Bob Hope's 100th birthday adorn Riverside Drive in the legendary comedian's hometown, the Toluca Lake district of Los Angeles.

An unidentified Bob Hope fan juggles her child while photographing Hope's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

Photographers and guests crowd around for a glimpse of a 100th birthday cake in honor of Bob Hope, featuring the legendary comedian's smiling face in icing, in a celebration in Hope's hometown, the Toluca Lake district of Los Angeles.

The Burbank, Calif., High School band plays "Thanks for the Memory," Hope's theme song, during a 100th birthday celebration in Hope's hometown.