One response to “Corner of Hollywood Blvd & Highland Ave and the Hollywood Hotel, 1915”

1. Al Donnelly says:

   December 27, 2024 at 2:37 pm

   Image would be taken from atop the Hollymar Apartments (3rd & 4th floor) in the C.E. Toberman building (later Bank of Italy/Bank of America). You can see the edge of the roof on the left. Southern Pacific ticket agency was on the ground floor before moving further east a few blocks. Across the road is a corner building replacing an open lot next to the Bank Of Hollywood (1899 era) that faced Highland Avenue. George Hoover was president and the builder of the Hotel Hollywood, which was unloaded in short order. [His house was on the big lot at the NW corner of Vine, where the Cross Keys Cafe/Fountain (1926) and later CoCo Tree (1932), Melody Lane, Hody’s, HoJo (197), Brown Derby (1987), etc. would stand until the fire. Son Frank built the Hoover Art Studios doing photography.] The Equitable Building was actually a B.of H. project but they went down in the ‘29 crash effects. The Bonnie Brier Hotel (phase 1 east end) should be on the SE corner to the left out of view here wherein an Ever Ready Drug Store occupied the corner ground space. [After the west annex was added, the original structure was later destroyed and replaced with the Rexall drug store later known as LEE. By then the remaining hotel was called the Park Hotel.]

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