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Title: Hollywood Boulevard, Vine Street and the 101 Freeway, looking northeast
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday.; C.L. Peck Co
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Aerial view of the Hollywood business district, with the Capitol Records Building visible middle left; view is looking northeast. Visible buildings include: Capitol Records - 1750 Vine Street; Hotel Knickerbocker - 1714 Ivar Avenue; Foreman & Clarke - 6353 Hollywood Boulevard; Nancy's - 6340 Hollywood Boulevard; The Broadway Hollywood - Hollywood & Vine; Admiral Theatre - 6321 Hollywood Boulevard; Harris & Frank - Hollywood Boulevard; and Hollywood Tower - 6200 Franklin Avenue. The Hollywood (101) Freeway runs horizontally along upper middle. Photograph dated June 16, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089292
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b23_f1_i21 (Photographic print); KHAF 270-1
CARL0004942848
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4716
Subject: Hotel Knickerbocker (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Capitol Records, Inc
Broadway Hollywood
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
Time Period: 1951-1960

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