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Hollywood and Vine was the second busiest intersection in the city, after Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. [ 3 ] In the 1930s, radio station KFWB spoke of "broadcasting live from Hollywood and Vine," and newspaper columnists Hedda Hopper and Jimmie Fidler regularly touted the intersection's mystique.
Broadway Hollywood Building (sometimes Broadway Building or Broadway Department Store Building) is a building in Los Angeles' Hollywood district. The building is situated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame monument area on the southwest corner of the intersection referred to as Hollywood and Vine, marking the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.
Taft Building is a historic twelve-story building at 6280 W. Hollywood Blvd. and 1680 North Vine Street, Hollywood and Vine, in Hollywood, California. History [ edit ]
In 1925, Carl Laemmle purchased land on the northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine from George Hoover for $350,000. Laemmle, then president of Universal Pictures Corporation, owned a successful movie studio in the San Fernando Valley and planned to build a 900-seat theatre and office tower on this property, but the Great Depression thwarted his plan. [1]
From the Hollywood Sign and Walk of Fame to the most glamorous stages and darkest bars, here's where history, and sometimes infamy, had a starring role.
The theatre is located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, on Vine Street between Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard, at the site of the former Robert Northam / Jacob Stern estate. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers and constructed in 1926–27.
Heirs of a Hollywood starlet have sold the storied gathering spot Off Vine to developers ... for a parking lot. Journalism legend Linda Deutsch on why the closing of Hollywood's beloved Off Vine ...
The Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District encompasses twelve blocks and more than one hundred buildings in Hollywood, California.The area, close in proximity to classic Hollywood's major film studios, contains an array of buildings and businesses that catered to the film industry and is generally known for its significant role in the history of cinema.