A German Hollywood Tour 1/2
   Tracing the German-Hollywood Connection

F I R S T   T O U R   2

Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street
 

The cover photo looks toward the intersection of
Hollywood and Vine. See the modern photo below.

The intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street has long been considered the center of Hollywood. The book's cover photo, taken from the corner of Selma Avenue and Vine Street, looks toward this famous intersection in the 1950s. The newer photo, lower right, was taken from approximately the same location. In the center of the color photo, part of the round Capitol Records building (1750 Vine St.) can be seen. It was completed in 1956, after the older photograph was made.

The book's photo cover (above left) was taken
from roughly this same spot as this newer photo.
Photo © Hyde Flippo

On the left in the photo we see the nine-story Broadway Department Store building. On the right is the twelve-story Taft Building, topped with a blank white billboard that was a Miller Beer ad in the older photo.

From Hollywood Haven: The Broadway Department Store... is mainly built in the Renaissance style, but it also has decorative Corinthian refiefs as well as classical mantel-pieces which tie it in with the other six-story, international style additions along Hollywood Boulevard. Furthermore, genuine columns support the loggias of the upper stories. The building has been an important shopping center for years, and it had a resturant at one time which the émigrés patronized.
    The twelve-story Taft Building, also built in the Neo-Renaissance style and fortified by concrete, brick inlay and Corinthian columns, is located on the southeast corner. It can also be described as Neoclassical. Important business enterprisees and offices are housed here. Formerly, numerous film agencies were located here.

Following the book tour, we proceed from Hollywood and Vine to the recently renovated Pantages Theater at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard. The art-deco Pantages was built in 1930 and once served as the home of the annual Academy Award ceremonies.

N E X T > First Tour 3 (Soon!)

Hollywood Haven: Homes and Haunts of the European Émigrés and Exiles in Los Angeles
by Cornelius Schnauber, Copyright © 1997 Ariadne Press, Riverside, Calif. Excerpts used by permission.

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