Hollywood Boulevard looking east from Sycamore Avenue, Hollywood, circa 1937
When I came across this circa 1937 photo of Hollywood Boulevard looking east from Sycamore Ave, the first thing I noticed was how those palm trees on the left and that building on the right are both still there. That doesn’t happen often with vintage photos of L.A. The second thing I noticed was the Owl Drug Co. store on the right. There was another one 10 blocks east on the Vine St corner so I’m guessing that they really were e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. One of these days, I hope to find a listing of all Owl Drug Co locations in L.A. circa mid 1930s because I’m guessing that list will take up a whole page of the L.A. City Directory.
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not quite a whole page. From the 1935 City Directory
https://i.imgur.com/h8wXOQV.png
The next question is that 6290,6384,6676 or 7048 Hollywood Blvd.?
Sheesh! Did Hollywood Blvd have enough Owl Drug Co locations do ya think???
They didn’t think so. By ’41 there is another location added at 6800 Hollywood Blvd. Plus they share page space with the World Famous journalist, radio star, LAPD officer and private eye, Nick Harris.
https://i.imgur.com/AiVvkHm.png
Nick Harris – now there’s a good private eye name for ya!
I forgot to add movie star to the list of Mr. Harris’s accomplishments. “Radio Pictures Presents: True Detective Stories of Celebrated Cases From the Records of Nick Harris, Internationally Famous Criminologist.” So the titles read at the start of this early sound-period two-reeler whodunit, directed by the great Spencer Gordon Bennet. Nick Harris – founder of the Nick Harris Detective Agency – and media-savvy, old-time-radio star, who coined the phrase “Crime does not pay”, here shifting it to the silver screen, recounts the story of “the famous police case of the Mason murder mystery”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768809/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
I remember Owl drug stores were everywhere in the 1950’s.
It seems they were ubiquitous as they show up a lot in the vintage LA photos I come across.
Johnny – If if he coined that phase, he’s earned his status of “Internationally Famous Criminologist”