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Hollywood and Vine

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Infobox road junction Hollywood and Vine, the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California, became known in the 1920s for its concentration of radio and movie-related businesses. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is centered on the intersection.

HistoryEdit

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The area was a lemon grove until 1903, when Daeida Beveridge allowed one corner of the dirt intersection on her property to be used for the Hollywood Memorial Church.<ref name=waterandpower_1850>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The streets were renamed in 1910, when the city of Hollywood was annexed into Los Angeles.<ref name="Hundred Years">Template:Cite book</ref>

Beginning in the 1920s, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the area began to see an influx of money and influence as movie and music businesses moved to the district, turning the local farms and orchards into movie backlots. Hollywood and Vine was the second busiest intersection in the city, after Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue.<ref name=Pool>Pool, Bob. "Turning the corner at Hollywood and Vine" Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2008</ref>

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.<ref name=Pool />

In 1958, the intersection became the crossing point of the newly installed t-shaped Hollywood Walk of Fame.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Later Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the astronauts of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11, were awarded television stars for coverage of the mission, and given the places of honor at all four corners of Hollywood and Vine.<ref name="LATApollo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

By the 1960s, however, many studios and broadcasters had moved onto more upscale areas, and the area fell into disrepair and disrepute, with many abandoned stores and offices, and the streets themselves, claimed by squatters and panhandlers. It took several decades for redevelopment to take hold, and visitors looking for Hollywood dreams were often taken aback by the area's contrast with shinier tourist meccas.

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The Hollywood and Vine intersection has become iconic

The Hollywood/Vine subway station opened in 1999,<ref name=lametro>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and led to more sustained and serious redevelopment in the area. On May 29, 2003, Hollywood and Vine was named "Bob Hope Square" to commemorate Hope's 100th birthday.<ref name=bbcdeath>Template:Cite news</ref>

In urban folklore, many of the local buildings are considered to be part of "Haunted Hollywood", home to the ghosts of celebrities (and less stellar residents) of Hollywood's legendary past. The intersection has been mentioned or alluded to in dozens of songs, films, video games, music videos and other popular media, often as a symbol of Hollywood's lure as a destination for dreamers, or for its decadence and disappointments.<ref name=Pool />

Historic buildingsEdit

Hollywood and Vine's first building, located on the intersection's southeast corner, was the Hollywood Memorial Church, constructed in 1903. It was later torn down to make way for the intersection's first high rise, the 12-story Taft Building, built in 1923. The Taft Building was built in the Renaissance Revival style for A.Z. Taft Jr. by Walker & Eisen.<ref name=waterandpower_1850/><ref name=NRHP>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Hollywood's golden age, every studio as well as Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had offices in the building.<ref name=ampas>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=waterandpower1925_6>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> To the south of the Taft Building is the Spanish Colonial Revival Herman Building and south of that was the complementary-designed Hollywood Brown Derby,<ref name=NRHP/> the latter of which was demolished in 1994.<ref name=latimes_brownderby>Template:Cite news</ref> To the east of the Taft Building was the Châteauesque Gilbert Books Building,<ref name=NRHP/> which was demolished to make way for the W Hollywood Hotel and Residences.

On the northeast corner, the Equitable Building of Hollywood was designed by Aleck Curlett, built in 1929, and expanded in 1931.<ref name=NRHP/> Originally home to numerous talent and advertising agencies,<ref name=recrep>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=heritage_equitable>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it was converted to a condominium in 2007.<ref name=waterandpower1925_3>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> East of the Equitable Building is the Art Deco Hollywood Pantages Theatre, designed by B. Marcus Priteca and built as a movie palace in 1930, then converted to a live theater in the 1977.<ref name=NRHP/><ref name=waterandpower_pantages>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> North of the Equitable Building is the Welton Becket designed, Googie-styled Capitol Records Building.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Built in 1956, the Capitol Records Building is the world's first circular office building<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was home to the first record label location on the west coast of the United States.<ref name="kcet.org">Template:Cite video</ref>

On the northwest corner, the Laemmle Building was built in 1932 by Richard Neutra<ref name=NRHP/> for Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Pictures. The original design was not built because of the 1929 stock market crash, and the building was significantly altered many times. The building was gutted by fire in April 2008 and razed six months later.<ref name=waterandpower1925_4>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> To the west of the former Laemmle Building is the former site of Sardi's Diner and is now home to the Cave Theater. West of that is the Vine Theatre.<ref name=NRHP/> To the north of the former Laemmle Building is a Spanish Colonial style Hollywood Playhouse, opened on January 24, 1927, designed by H. L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl.<ref name=NRHP/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The building's name has changed many times over the 20th century, but was known as the Hollywood Palace for many years before its most recent renaming.

On the southwest corner, the Dyas Building was built in 1927 by Frederick Rice Dorn.<ref name=NRHP/> From 1931 to 1982, the building housed The Broadway-Hollywood department store, and in 2007, the building converted to multi-family residential, ground-floor commercial.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Dyas Building has two annexes, one to the south of the building and the other to the west, that were built in the late 1930s.<ref name=waterandpower1925_2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> South of the building is the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, built by Walker & Eisen in 1924<ref name=NRHP/> and at one point home to silent film star Clara Bow's "It Cafe".<ref name="changing landscape">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Six of the aforementioned buildings are listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments:<ref name=LAHCM>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Furthermore, nine of the aforementioned buildings are listed as contributing properties in the National Register of Historic Places Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District:<ref name=NRHP/>

RedevelopmentEdit

A number of high-profile projects have attempted to restore the lost luster of the area, most notably the $600 million W Hollywood Hotel and Residences,<ref name=latimes_whotel>Template:Cite news</ref> which opened in 2010.<ref name=laist_whotel>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Other large projects include a $50-million conversion of the Equitable Building<ref name=waterandpower1925_3/> and $70-million conversion of the Dyas Building into condominiums.<ref name=BBGLC>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A pedestrian scramble was added to the intersection in 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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