Yesterday’s post featured an Art Deco building on Highland Ave in Hollywood, so I thought I’d continue the theme with today’s post. This gorgeous building was the showroom for Frigidaire, the company whose refrigerators became the standard name for the appliance (in the same way that Hoovers became synonymous with vacuum cleaners.) And Frigidaire had a prime location for their showroom on the northeast corner of Hollywood Blvd and McCadden Place, which put it not far east of the Hollywood Hotel and Grauman’s Chinese. I don’t know when they opened the showroom, but this photo is from 1930.
It looks like the decor budget went all into the exterior because the interior wasn’t quite so intricate:
This is how that building looked in June 2024. Although it’s just a Starbucks and a souvenir store now, at least the detailing on the second floor is still around, so that’s something.