The bucolic building we’re seeing here is Hollywood’s second hotel. The first one, the Sackett Hotel, was on the southwest corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga Blvds. This one was called the Glen-Holly Hotel, and it opened 7 years after the Sackett in 1895 on the southeast corner of Ivar and Yucca Sts, a block north of Hollywood Blvd. Among the group of people standing out from is C.M. Pierce and his wife. More than anything it shows how rustic Hollywood was back then. If it took Hollywood 7 years to get a second hotel, it makes me wonder how many people needing accommodation were coming to Hollywood back then.

Gary H. said: “Gregory Paul Williams in his book put the location across the street from your post, on the NE block of Ivar and Yucca, and situated more int the middle of the block. I have searched in all the old directories for the actual address, but still haven’t found it. Btw, Preston Sturges’s house was on that same block, but north, where the off ramp of the 101 is today. He moved the house to Franklin, just by the west entrance to Runyon Canyon.”

Gary H. also said: “Also, Wilcox commissioned Sackett to build his hotel in time for the dummy line to be completed in 1888 to the basically undeveloped land. The only thing those travelers were doing was looking to maybe buy Wilcox’s newly subdivided lots and build their homes. The population in 1888 was probably only a few dozen people total! By the time of Glen-Holly there were *some* tourists who passed through the beautiful area, often passing though to Santa Monica on Charles Pierce’s Balloon route, some still buying land, some maybe looking at Paul De Longpre’s house and gallery. Not all that much to do until the turn of the century when it all exploded! (and the Hollywood Hotel wiped them both out!)”

This is roughly how that view looked in November 2021. That site is a parking lot now , but we can see two Hollywood icons: the Capitol Records building and the Knickerbocker Hotel.