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Order Number	00088576
Title	Yucca Street, Argyle Avenue, and Vine Street, looking southeast
Photographer	Kelly, Howard D.
Collection ID	Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b22_f3_i35 (Photographic print); KHAF 240-5
Date	1956
Physical Description	1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Capitol Records, located at 1750 Vine Street, is a unique 13-story, 150 ft high-rise cylindrical building that was built in 1956 by architect Welton David Becket and contractor C. L. Peck Co. The wide curved awnings over the windows of each floor and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building combine to give it the appearance of a stack of vinyl 45s on a turntable, although it was not originally designed with that idea in mind. The blinking red light on the tip of the rooftop spire spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code every few seconds, and has done so since the building's opening in April of 1956.
Description	Aerial view of Hollywood with the Capitol Records Building in the center surrounded by other buildings near Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street; view is looking southeast. The visible streets are (diagonally, r to l): Vine Street, Argyle Avenue, Gower Street, and Bronson Avenue and (l to r): Yucca Street, Hollywood Boulevard, and Sunset Boulevard. Other visible buildings are Yucca Vine Building (corner of Yucca and Vine), Equitable Building (corner of Vine and Hollywood), Pantages Theater (corner of Hollywood and Argyle), and Charles E. Skinner Studios (corner of Argyle and Yucca). Photograph dated February 17, 1956.
Publisher	Kelly-Holiday. C.L. Peck Co.
Subject	Capitol Records, Inc. Sound recording industry--California--Los Angeles. Buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Round buildings--California--Los Angeles. Music trade--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views. Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Aerial photographs Becket, Welton.
Coverage	1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960
Format	Photographic safety negatives
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
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	Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection