One of the delights hidden among the curves and folds of the Hollywoodland development are these remarkable stairs. The Hollywoodland Stairs, also known as the Saroyan Stairs, can be found at the intersection of N Beachwood and Woodshire Drives. The two rows of 148 granite steps with planters in the middle lead up to Belden Drive. They were built in 1923, which is the same year that the Hollywoodland development offered lots for sale. The Hollywoodland sign went up in November of that same year.
This is how those stairs look in 2022:
Bravo to the caretakers of these stairs!
Have we seen these in any / many film and tv scenes? Not the stairs used in The Joker with Joaquin Phoenix, for example.
They may have been used in the early days of cinema, but these days they’re too overgrown with surrounding greenery to make much of a filming location. I think the Jokes stairs are in Brooklyn.
I would appreciate anymore picture of old Hollywood.