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Order Number	00089293
Title	Argyle Avenue, Yucca Street and Hollywood Boulevard, looking north
Photographer	Kelly, Howard D.
Collection ID	Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
Location/Accession	KHAF 270-3; GPC_b23_f1_i22 (Photographic print)
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 the Hollywood business district, with the Capitol Records Building visible middle right; view is looking north. Other visible buildings include: Pantages Theater, E.F. Hutton Building, Broadway Hollywood, Hotel Knickerbocker, Guaranty Building, and Hollywood Taft Building. The streets are (diagonally, l to r): Selma Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard, and Yucca Street; and (bottom to top) Gower Street, Argyle Avenue, Vine Street, Ivar Avenue, and Cahuenga Boulevard, to name a few. The Hollywood (101) Freeway is visible along the right. Photograph dated June 16, 1956.
Publisher	Kelly-Holiday. C.L. Peck Co.
Subject	Broadway Hollywood. Hotel Knickerbocker (Los Angeles, Calif.). Capitol Records, Inc. Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.). Round buildings--California--Los Angeles. Sound recording industry--California--Los Angeles. Buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Express highways--California, Southern. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). United States Highway 101. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views. 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