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Order Number	00079563
Title	Famous Hollywood Boulevard
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	Hollywood-Streets-Hollywood Blvd.
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 19 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	The Hollywood Hotel began as a small stucco structure comprised of a 40-room wing which was built in 1902 by H.J. Whitley, a very successful land developer (later nicknamed "The Father of Hollywood"). Over the next three years, Whitley added an additional 104 rooms to a new wing of the elegant hotel, along with a wide lobby, a chapel, a music room, a ballroom, and wide lawns and carefully cultivated gardens were added, which stretched over three acres. The establishment operated as a resort hotel that would turn out to lure producers, directors, writers, technicians, as well as a continuous stream of idols of the silver screen, making this "the" place to be seen. Sadly, by the 1950s the hotel was run down and faded, becoming only a relic of its former glory, and in August 1956, the famous Hollywood Hotel was razed to make way for a $10,000,000 development, with a 12-story office building for the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Hollywood, a shopping center, and parking lots. In 2001, the Hollywood and Highland entertainment complex opened on the site of the former Hollywood Hotel.; Topped by a tower decorated with sculptures in arched niches and a flagpole, First National Bank was designed in Art Deco/Gothic style by architects Meyer and Holler of the Milwaukee Building Company.
Description	Aerial view of Hollywood Boulevard, looking to the east from the Chinese Theatre. Also visible are, left to right, the Hollywood Hotel, the First National Bank of Los Angeles, Hollywood Branch, on the northeast corner of Highland and Hollywood Blvd, and the Barker Bros. Hollywood.
Publisher	Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Subject	Hollywood Hotel (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.). First Los Angeles Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.). Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.). Barker Bros. Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Bank buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences. Hotels--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Commercial buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Street-railroad tracks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Street-railroads--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Meyer, Mendel S. Holler, Phillip W. Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Milwaukee Building Company.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection