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Streetcar heading east along Hollywood Blvd, past the Pantages Theater
A streetcar heading into downtown L.A. rolls along Hollywood Boulevard, just east of the Hollywood & Vine corner, passing the Pantages Theater in — I’m guessing — sometime in the 1950s. On the right hand side of the picture, we … Continue reading
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Hollywood Boulevard looking west from Hollywood & Vine, 1958
This shot is from 1958. We’re on Hollywood Boulevard looking west from the Hollywood and Vine corner. The Admiral Theater we can see on the right opened in 1937, then later became the Vine Theater. I love the Arthur Murray … Continue reading
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Hollywood map on cover of luncheon menu from the Vine Street Brown Derby restaurant, 1951
I love it when my lunch menu doubles as a map to all the important places around Hollywood, including all four Brown Derby restaurants, which shouldn’t come as a surprise considering this was the lunch menu at the Vine Street … Continue reading
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Coco Tree Restaurant at the corner of Hollywood & Vine, 1930s
Some sort of filming (1936) is going outside the CoCo Tree Café, which stood on the northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine from 1932 to 1940. It was located in the Laemmle Building — Carl Laemmle planned a 900-seat theatre … Continue reading
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Proposed Brown Derby restaurant, northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood
File this one under the heading of “Coulda Been Shoulda Been.” This is an artist rendering of a proposed location of a Brown Derby restaurant at the northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine. Over the years, that corner has seen … Continue reading
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Red Fox restaurant near the corner of Hollywood & Vine, early 1960s
In all my wanderings around the internet discovering photos and places of Hollywood in its heyday, I’ve never come across the Red Fox restaurant. It’s surprising because it stood just down from Hollywood’s most famous corner—Hollywood and Vine. Apparently, it … Continue reading
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“Bright Spots of Hollywood” matchbook/map, circa 1940s
Lucky visitors to Hollywood in the 1940s had this handy-dandy map/matchbook showing them where all the “Bright Spots of Hollywood” were. On the other hand, maybe they weren’t so lucky—this map is far from geographically accurate and probably was responsible … Continue reading
Marking the completion of the first step of the “Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street Million Dollar Glamorization Program, 1956
This photo was taken at the corner of Hollywood and Vine on October 15th, 1956 marking the completion of the first step of the “Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street Million Dollar Glamorization Program.” I count find no further information on … Continue reading
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Vine Street Brown Derby restaurant at night, 1944
I doubt that I’ll ever get sick of seeing photos of the Brown Derby restaurant—especially atmospheric night shots like this one taken in 1944. This is the Vine Street Brown Derby, which sat on the eastern side of Vine, just … Continue reading
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Hollywood Boulevard looking west from the Vine Street corner in 1932
This is a shot of Hollywood Boulevard looking west from the Vine Street corner in 1932. This is when the café on the northwest corner was the Coco Tree Café. It went through many incarnations of the years—Melody Lane, then … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Blvd, Night photo
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