In this 1927 shot of the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine we can see that that famous corner was still getting its act together. The Equitable Building that stands there today was built in 1930 and was where agent Myron Selznick (who famously brought Vivien Leigh to his brother David for the role of Scarlett O’Hara) had his offices. The Pantages Theatre a few doors down went up in 1930. Across the street, the first of many cafés to occupy the northwest corner – the CoCo Tree – didn’t go in until 1932. What we have here is a view of a simple one-story Bank of Hollywood building, a streetcar line along Hollywood Boulevard, a few other haphazard building but not much else going on besides. It certainly doesn’t look like it’s destined to become one of the world’s most famous intersections.
In this 1927 shot of the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine we can see that that famous corner was still getting its act together. The Equitable Building that stands there today was built in 1930 and was where agent Myron Selznick (who famously brought Vivien Leigh to his brother David for the role of Scarlett O’Hara) had his offices. The Pantages Theatre a few doors down went up in 1930. Across the street, the first of many cafés to occupy the northwest corner – the CoCo Tree – didn’t go in until 1932. What we have here is a view of a simple one-story Bank of Hollywood building, a streetcar line along Hollywood Boulevard, a few other haphazard building but not much else going on besides. It certainly doesn’t look like it’s destined to become one of the world’s most famous intersections.
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