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The famous Hollywood and Vine street signs have appeared in thousands of tourist and professional photographs.
Hollywood and Vine, the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, became famous in the 1920s for its concentration of radio- and movie-related businesses. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is centered on the intersection. Today, few production facilities remain in the immediate area; one of these is the Capitol Records Tower to the north of the intersection; indeed, Capitol Records named its official website "hollywoodandvine.com".

The Hollywood/Vine subway station for the Metro Red Line is located directly below the intersection, but the entrance/exit to the station is located one block east at Hollywood and Argyle Avenue.

History

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The intersection of Hollywood and Vine (looking north) in 1907 showed only farmland.
The historical marker plaque placed at the site by The Broadway-Hollywood Department Store and the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles[1] reads:

Hollywood was given its name by pioneers Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. Wilcox. They subdivided their ranch in 1887 and called two dirt cross-roads Prospect Avenue and Weyse Avenue. Prospect Avenue, the main artery, was renamed Hollywood Boulevard and Weyse Avenue became Vine Street. This was the origin of "Hollywood and Vine."


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 began to move in.

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.

Historic buildings

On the northwest corner, The Laemmle Building was built in the International Style in 1932 by architect Richard Neutra for Carl Laemmle, of Universal Studios fame. It was significantly altered starting in 1940, and retains few of its original features.

To the west of the Laemmle Building is another famous International Style building, by Neutra's friend and rival Rudolf Schindler. The building was originally known for Sardi's Diner, and is now home to the Cave Theater. To the north is the Palace Theatre, originally the Hollywood Playhouse, built in 1927.

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The Taft Building is where many of Charlie Chaplin's films were conceived and written.
On the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine is the Equitable Building, a Gothic Deco commercial tower built in 1929 on the northeast corner, designed by Aleck Curlett. Next to it is the famous Art Deco movie house, the Pantages Theatre, built in 1930 by B. Marcus Priteca -- the first of its kind in the United States. The Academy Award ceremonies were held at the Pantages from 1949 to 1959.

On the southwest corner, the B.H. Dyas building was built in 1927 by architect Frederick Rice Dorn. It housed The Broadway-Hollywood department store, which has been defunct since the 1990s, although the famous sign remains.

Just to the south on Vine was the fabled Hollywood Plaza Hotel, built in 1924 and home to silent film star Clara Bow's "It Cafe". Across the street, the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, the second in the chain, opened in 1929 in a Spanish Colonial Revival building designed for Cecil B. DeMille; it was demolished in 1994. Though part of the Brown Derby facade remains, it was threatened with demolition as of April 2006. Farther south on Vine were the original Lasky-Paramount Studios, later NBC's West coast studios; and ABC's first West coast studios.

Also on Vine is Avalon Hollywood, another Spanish Colonial style building, opened on January 24, 1927 as The Hollywood Playhouse and designed by the architectural firm of Gogarty and Weyl. [1]. 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 southeast corner, the Taft Building housed offices for Charlie Chaplin and Will Rogers, and from 1935 to 1945 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offices. The 150-foot building was built in 1923 by architects Walker & Eisen, in the Renaissance Revival style.

Redevelopment & Urbanization

A number of high profile projects are attempting to restore the lost luster of the area. As of May 2007, major renovations announced by the Los Angeles city council, have begun construction on the famous intersection, developments expected to cost upwards of $600-million,[2]. The new projects call for a 305-room W hotel tower with 143 adjoining condominiums. Also part of the plan for the southeast corner of the intersection, 375 luxury apartments, restaurants, a nightclub, stores and a spa. Retail renovations of the Pantages Theater, similar to the Hollywood and Highland Center a mile down the Boulevard. Expected completion date is 2009.

Two other large projects are Palisades Development Group's $50-million conversion of the former Equitable office building to condominiums and Kor Group's $70-million conversion of the former Broadway department store, also into condos. The Broadway, Equitable and Taft buildings are links to the era when Bob Hope Square was one of the city's great crossroads. In the 1920s, it was the second busiest intersection after Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue.

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Coordinates:
Location: 6200-7000 Hollywood Blvd., N. Vine St., N. Highland Ave. and N. Ivar St
Los Angeles, CA

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Built/Founded: 1939

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For the street in London, see Vine Street, Westminster.
Vine is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs south — north — north — south from Melrose Avenue up past Hollywood Boulevard.
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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym for the Cinema of the United States.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by the
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Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI, located in Hollywood, California. Its headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine.
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Hollywood/Vine is a station on the Metro Red line. It has an island platform, and is located directly below Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street; the entrance/exit is located on Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, which is one block east of Vine Street and right across the
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Metro Red Line of the Los Angeles County Metro Rail is a heavy rail rapid transit line in Los Angeles. It is one of Los Angeles' two rapid transit lines (along with the Metro Purple Line), and also the busiest of the five Metro Rail lines (the other three are light rail, largely
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Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative[1], are terms used in film history which designates both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production that arose in the American film industry of the 1910s and 1920s.
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International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II.
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Richard Joseph Neutra (April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) is considered one of modernism's most important architects.

Neutra was born in Vienna, Austria in 1892. He studied under Adolf Loos, was influenced by Otto Wagner, and worked for a time in Germany in the studio of
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Carl Laemmle (17 January 1867 – 24 September 1939), born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios. Laemmle produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films.
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Universal Studios

Subsidiary
Founded June 8, 1912
Headquarters Universal City, California, United States

Key people Carl Laemmle, Founder
Ron Meyer, President/COO
Industry Motion pictures
Parent NBC Universal
Owner General Electric
Vivendi
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Rudolf Schindler

Personal information
Name Rudolf Schindler
Nationality American
Birth date September 10 1887(1887--)
Birth place Vienna, Austria
Date of death July 22 1953
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Avalon is a historic night club and music venue in Hollywood, California. Located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N. Vine Street, it has previously been known as the Hollywood Playhouse, The WPA Federal Theatre, El Capitan Theatre
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Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film.
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Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California in the United States of America. Designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca, it was the last theatre built for the impresario Alexander Pantages.
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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The Broadway

Department store
Founded 1896
Headquarters Los Angeles, California

Industry Retail
Products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
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department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. Department stores usually sell products including apparel, furniture, appliances, electronics, and additionally select other lines of
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silent film is a motion picture with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.

The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, most films were silent
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Clara Bow

Birth name Clara Gordon Bow
Born July 29 1905(1905--)
Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died September 27 1965 (aged 60)
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Brown Derby was a landmark restaurant in Los Angeles frequented by celebrities during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was an example of novelty architecture, known for being physically shaped like a brown derby hat.
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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille from the trailer for The Ten Commandments (1956)
Birth name Cecil Blount DeMille
Born August 12, 1881
Ashfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died January 21 1959 (aged 79)
Hollywood, California, U.
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Paramount Pictures Corporation

Subsidiary
Founded Los Angeles, California, USA (1912)
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, USA

Key people Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO
Frederick D. Huntsberry, COO

Industry Motion pictures
Revenue $3.
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National Broadcasting Company

Type Broadcast television network
Country  United States
Availability    United States, also distributed in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean
Founder David Sarnoff
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American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Type Broadcast radio network and
television network
Country United States
Availability   
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Avalon is a historic night club and music venue in Hollywood, California. Located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N. Vine Street, it has previously been known as the Hollywood Playhouse, The WPA Federal Theatre, El Capitan Theatre
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Sir Charles Chaplin

Birth name Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.
Born 16 March 1889(1889--)
Walworth, London, England
Died 25 November 1977 (aged 88)
Vevey, Switzerland


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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4 1879 – August 15 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor.

Known as Oklahoma's favorite son,[1]
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1900s  1910s  1920s  - 1930s -  1940s  1950s  1960s
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Year 1935 (MCMXXXV
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