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Hollywood Blvd.

2012-09-04T18:20:00-07:00

Prospect Ave. One of the most well know streets, in the country, is Hollywood Boulevard. Originally, it was know as Prospect Avenue and the area, now known as Hollywood, was commonly referred to as the Cahuenga Valley. The area consisted of small farms of citrus and other fruit groves along with quiet streets of single family residents. Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, there were two growing business centers. The oldest was near the intersection of Prospect Ave. and Wilcox Ave. and was promoted by Daeida Wilcox Beveridge. The other burgeoning business center was near the intersection of Prospect Ave. and Highland Ave. Hollywood Blvd. In November, 1903, the residents of the Cahuenga Valley voted to incorporate the area with the name of Hollywood. Seven years later the citizens of Hollywood elected to annex their small city in the city of Los Angeles. The last act of the Board of Trustees was to change the name of Prospect Ave. to Hollywood Blvd. During the 1920s,’30s and ‘40s, Hollywood Blvd was one of the most fashionable shopping streets in the country. Hollywood Hotel The famous Hollywood Hotel was located at the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland, and today it is an enormous shopping center known as Hollywood and Highland. Today, Hollywood Blvd. is lined with many small tourist attracting type shops Hollywood Blvd. Photos The largest collection of Hollywood Blvd. photos is on the hollywoodphotographs.com web site.

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2011-12-27T07:34:00-07:00

** Click Here To See Photos ** Any local history buff will tell you that Hollywood history is some of the most fascinating history in all of the United States... Take Hollywood Blvd., for example. Is there any more storied street in Los Angeles? If you wanted to learn just about that pathway alone, you’d have much to study. Sometimes the best tool to study, of course, is a visual one. The best collection of Hollywood Blvd. Pics is hollywoodphotographs.com. Hollywood Blvd. pics are the best way to learn how and when the street was developed. Take, for example, the grading process that started all the way back in 1899. It’s remarkable. You can see how the process was started and what the street looked like before it became what we know it to be currently. There was greenery everywhere and it was barely populated. No book can tell you that much. Only hollywoodphotographs.com can illustrate that for you. Say, too, that you’re looking for Hollywood Blvd. pics with major intersections in them. We have those, too. Pictures of Hollywood Blvd. and Gower, or Hollywood Blvd. and Wilcox are plentiful. They, too, will provide an unprecedented look at what life in Hollywood was like at the time. It was far less populated and was marked by much more green and much less cement. Essentially, our Hollywood Blvd. pics can chronicle for you Hollywood Blvd.’s long and interesting history. We have pictures of buildings being erected as the years pass well into the next century. You’ll see as it morphs from something more agricultural and into something far more urban and populated. Different photos taken at different points in time illuminate this piece of Los Angeles history like nothing else can. When you visit us online at Hollywoodphotos.com or call us, you’ll find no less than a stellar customer service experience awaiting you. The staff can answer any question you may have about Hollywood’s history. All the photographs are available for purchase.

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HOLLYWOOD BLVD.

2012-02-24T04:34:00-07:00

** Click Here To See Photos ** The best way to see what Hollywood Blvd. looked like, years ago, is to look at the photos on the hollywoodphotographs.com web site. Before the turn of the century, Hollywood (then known as the Cahuenga Valley) as made up of small farms, and sparsely populated rural type neighborhoods of single family homes. Prospect Ave (now Hollywood Blvd.) was the main street of the Cahuenga Valley. Until about the turn of the century, Prospect Ave. consisted, almost exclusively, of residences. When commercial development began to take place, there were two centers of activity. The Los Angeles Pacific Boulevard and Development Company was developing the property around the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Highland Ave. The first structure of the Hotel Hollywood was built in 1903 by G. W. Hoover, an investor in the Los Angeles Pacific Boulevard and Development Co. Also at the same intersection was the First National Bank. Within a few years other commercial building were built near that intersection. At the same time, Mrs. Daeida Wilcox Beveridge was actively building a business center at Prospect and Cahuenga Avenues. Thus the village was divided into two ambitious business centers, connected by a strip of a half mile of territory through which ran the only common carrier of the town, the streetcar. For the first decade of the twentieth century, the commercial development of Prospect Ave. occurred primarily at these two business centers. The first streetcars/train to travel on Prospect Ave. was the Cahuenga Valley Railroad, which was incorporated in 1888. It was originally a steam “dummy” railroad that was eventually electrified in 1896. The term dummy meant that the engine and wheels were totally enclosed so as not to frighten horses. Later, it was sold and merged with other railroad companies. In 1911, it was deeded to the Pacific Electric Railroad which, for many years, operated the many streetcars in Los Angeles and Hollywood. In October, 1911, the Nestor Film Company leased the old Blondeau Tavern, at Sunset Blvd. & Gower St. and established the first motion picture studio in Hollywood. It wasn’t long before other motion picture companies heard of the great weather and variety of scenery that Hollywood had to offer. Within three years, there were more than fifteen motion picture studios operating in Hollywood. This new industry caused an explosive growth in commercial development in Hollywood and particularly on Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Hotel was expanded two times thereby taking up the entire Hollywood Blvd. frontage, between Orchid and Highland Avenues. It wasn’t long before the residences on Hollywood Blvd. gave way to the building of stores, restaurants, banks, and theaters. By 1920, there were almost no residences on Hollywood Blvd., between La Brea Ave. and Vine Street. In 1914, C.E. Toberman built a four story building on the southeast corner of Hollywood Blvd. & Highland Ave. The first floor consisted of stores, the second floor was devoted to offices and the two two stories were apartments. The Hollywood Blvd. photos on the Hollywoodphotographs.com web site will give the viewer a great idea of the development of this now famous street. All photos are available for purchase.

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2011-09-21T08:02:00-07:00

** Click Here To See Photos ** If you are looking for pictures of Hollywood Blvd, you can find what you need and more when you visit www.hollywoodphotographs.com. There are so many photographs to choose from to help give you an idea what Hollywood Boulevard was like back in the day, and to give you a view of how it is different from Hollywood today. You will find a wide variety of Hollywood Blvd. pics when you visit the Hollywood Photographs website, and you will find plenty to choose from for your own personal collection as well as for commercial use. You will find photos and reference information from as early as 1890, and you can find snapshots from north, south, east, and west. Viewing and ordering Hollywood Blvd. pics is really easy. Simply go to hollywoodphotographs.com and click on the Hollywood Blvd. category. There are over 300 photos from which to choose. All photos on the site can be enlarged to get a better view of the detail and quality of each image.Purchasing photos is also very easy, using the web site’s purchasing feature.

View the Best Hollywood Blvd. Photos At Hollywoodphotographs.com

2012-01-30T08:05:00-07:00

** Click Here To See Photos ** The very best collection of Hollywood Blvd. photos can be found on the hollywoodphotographs.com web site. The collection was started, by Bruce Torrence in 1970, and today there are over 12,000 photographs of which there are more than 7,000 images on the web site. These wonderful photos of Hollywood Blvd. show the development of the street from when it was a dirt road to the way it is now. Originally, Hollywood Blvd. was named Prospect Ave. However, in 1910, the residents of Hollywood caused the name to be changed to Hollywood Blvd. Some of the early photos show the homes that lined Prospect Ave. Also, are photos of the street cars that traveled east and west on the street. Until about 1910, Prospect Ave. was almost residential. However, when the motion picture industry discovered Hollywood, commercial development began to take place. In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Hollywood Blvd. was one of the most popular shopping streets in the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hollywood saw decline in shopping, primarily due to the advent of shopping centers and malls. Today, there has been a resurgence in the real estate development of Hollywood and Hollywood Blvd. In addition to the Hollywood Blvd. photos, there are over ninety other categories of photos from which to choose. The newly designed web site is more user friendly and easier to find the photographs desired. Whether it is images of the Hollywood sign, the hand and footprints ceremonies at Grauman’s Chinese Theater or Hollywood and Vine, they are all here. Visitors to the hollywoodphotograph.com site can see photos of the many of the celebrities that dined at famous Hollywood restaurants and nightclubs, including the Coconut Grove, La Rues and the famous Romanoff’s. There are over 350 wonderful photographs of the activities that too place at the famous Hollywood Canteen -- Dinah Shore singing or Spencer Tracy chatting with the servicemen, it was “standing room only.” Images of premieres, attended by such stars as Rhonda Fleming, Barbara Streisand and Dick Powell can be seen. There are also great historic photos of such hotels as the Garden of Allah and the Hollywood Hotel. In addition, the photographs of the famous Ken Murray’s Blackouts and the Chinese Theater will give viewers and idea of how glamorous Hollywood was in it’s heyday. Two other popular categories are the hundreds of images of the scores of Hollywood motion picture studios that existed during the past one hundred years. In addition, the collection has scores of “movie making” photos which show how movies were made. Other popular categories of photographs include the Grauman’s Egyptian Theater, Hollywood Stars Baseball team and the Hollywood Studio Club. All the photos on the hollywoodphotographs.com web site are available for purchase. Both Digital and actual photographs can be purchased for either personal or commercial use.

Hollywood Blvd Pics

2011-07-19T21:03:00-07:00

** Click Here To See Photos ** Hollywood Blvd. was originally named Prospect Avenue and was the main street in the sleepy community known as Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated, as a city of the sixth class, in 1903. Hollywood's city hall also shared by the police department.However, due to the lack of continued water supply and other municipal facilities, the residents voted to annex their small town to the city of Los Angeles. The last official act of Hollywood's Board of Trustees was to pass ordinance #440 on January 19, 1910, which change the name of Prospect Ave. to Hollywood Blvd.. Over the course of the following following 100 years, Hollywood Blvd. has seen been the venue for such events as the Hollywood Santa Claus Lane Parade and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Any local history buff will tell you that Hollywood's history is some of the most fascinating history in all of the United States. It fascinates not just for its diversity of ethnicity and economy, but also for its architecture and city development. Take Hollywood Blvd., for example. Is there any more storied street in the country? If you want to see the largest collection of Hollywood Blvd. pics, go to hollywoodphotographs.com. Hollywood Blvd. pics are the best way to learn how and when the street was developed. Take for example, the grading process that started all the way back in 1899. Its remarkable. You can see how the process was started and what the street looked like before it became so famous.

There was greenery everywhere when it was barely populated. No book can tell you that much. Only Hollywood Blvd. pics can illustrate that for you. If you're looking for Hollywood Blvd. pics with major intersections in them. We have those, too. Pictures of Hollywood Blvd. and Gower or Hollywood Blvd. and Wilcox are plentiful. They too will provide an unprecedented look at what life in Hollywood was like at the time. It was far less populated and was marked by much more green and much less cement. Essentially, our Hollywood Blvd. pics can chronicle its history for you. We have pictures of buildings being erected as the years pass well into the next century. Youll see as it morphs from something more agricultural and into something far more urban and populated. Different photos taken at different points in time illuminate this piece of Hollywood's history like nothing else can.

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