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Aerial shot looking west along Wilshire Blvd to the Town House Hotel and Bullocks Wilshire department store
Ordinarily, I’d be looking at a shot like this one, looking west along Wilshire Blvd to the Town House Hotel and Bullocks Wilshire and I’d be thinking “Oh my, look at how light the traffic is along Wilshire!” But I’m … Continue reading
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Aerial view of Grauman’s Chinese Theater and Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, circa 1930s.
In this aerial view of Hollywood in what I’m guessing is the 1930s, of the three major buildings we can see—Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Hotel, and the Hollywood First National Bank building—two of them are still with us, which … Continue reading
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Aerial view of Los Angeles Central Library, downtown Los Angeles, circa mid to late 1920s
Here we have an aerial view of the Los Angeles Central Library, downtown L.A. (or as the neatly typed caption says an “Aeroplane view.”) Someone has written “New Library” which indicates this photo is from the mid to late 1920s … Continue reading
Biltmore Hotel, from the corner of 5th and Olive Streets, downtown Los Angeles, 1943
This grand building is the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The photographer was standing on the corner of 5th and Olive in 1943, when the world was fighting WWII. This was a time when Los Angeles was flooded with … Continue reading
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Excavation site for the future Capitol Records building, Vine Street, Hollywood, 1955
In this photo from 1955, we can see the excavation site for the soon-to-be iconic Capital Records building, which opened the following year. The photo, which I assume was taken from the roof of the Equitable Building on the northeast … Continue reading
Looking east along Hollywood Blvd from the Bonnie Brier Hotel at the Highland Ave corner, 1936
This photo was presumably taken by hanging out of the window of the Bonnie Brier hotel, which stood on the southwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Ave. I’ve never noticed the Bonnie Brier in any other photos—probably because most … Continue reading
Recreation of Holdup at Garden of Allah Hotel, 8152 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, November 1951
My thanks to J. Yuma for bringing this photo to my attention. On November 30, 1951, two armed gunmen held up the Garden of Allah Hotel and got away with $500 cash. Obviously, they didn’t bring along a photographer to … Continue reading
Garden of Allah bar at the Garden of Allah Hotel, 8152 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, circa 1950s
By the 1950s, A-list guests of the Garden of Allah Hotel (Flynn, Bogie, Bacall, Rogers, Stokowski, Marx, and half the Algonquin Round Table) were no longer around so the hotel did what many hotels do—it reinvented itself. All reports I’ve … Continue reading
Blossom Room, Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California, circa 1929
On May 16, 1929, members of the newly convened Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathered in the Blossom Room at the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd for the first Academy awards ceremony. Douglas Fairbanks presented each of the … Continue reading
Looking south down Vine Street from the corner of Yucca, Hollywood, circa mid 1950s
It’s not often that a mid-1950s Hollywood view doesn’t look a whole lot different to an early 2020s view, but this one does. We’re looking south down Vine Street from the corner of Yucca. The Capital Records building opened in … Continue reading