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Argyle Avenue, Yucca Street and Hollywood Boulevard, looking north
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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
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