Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph edited for publication. The Historic Hollywood Photographs Collection includes over 12,000 images from 1880 to 2012, chronicling both Hollywood's evolution from a dusty outpost to a global legend and Los Angeles communities and neighborhoods. The collection's official history began in 1972 after historian/photographer/author Bruce Terence inherited the photographs from his Hollywood pioneer grandfathers, developer Charles E. Toberman and actor Ernest Torrence. Over the decades, Torrence added his own photographs, creating the impressively comprehensive collection that is available today. In 2019, Torrence retired and sold the collection to Stephen and Christy McAvoy, both Los Angeles natives with a passion for history, photography, and preservation. Stephen (1945-2023) was a retired CPA and avid photo collector whose parents worked in the Ink & Paint Department at Walt Disney Studios from the 1930s to 1970s, while Christy, a trailblazer in the field of historic preservation and architectural consulting in Hollywood, is recognized as having co-founded Hollywood Heritage and the Historic Resources Group. Her dedicated preservation efforts also include having served as president of the Los Angeles Conservancy and the California Preservation Foundation, and as an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The McAvoys, with the help of their daughter, artist/photographer Carly Caryn, maintained the physical collection and its online access until May 1, 2024, when the collection was acquired by the Los Angeles Public Library. Aerial photograph looking west from Hollywood Boulevard (center) and Argyle Avenue. Notable structures include the Vine Street Theatre (lower right of center), the Hollywood Plaza Hotel (lower left of center), the B.H. Dyas Building (later the Broadway Hollywood Building, lower center), the Taft Building (lower center), Yucca Vine Tower (right), the Security Trust & Savings Bank (center), the Equitable Building (lower right of center), the Pantages Theatre (foreground), First National Bank of Hollywood (top, left of center), the Guaranty Building (lower center), the Knickerbocker Hotel (lower center), Hotel Christie (top left), the First National Bank of Hollywood (top left), Hollywood Methodist Church (top, right of center), and Hollywood High School (top left).
Streets Stores & shops Dwellings Commercial buildings Office buildings Hotels B. H. Dyas Co. (Department store) Central business districts Departments stores Automobiles Art deco (Architecture) Theaters Yucca Vine Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.) Taft Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Vine Street Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) First National Bank of Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pantages Theatre (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Vacant lands Apartments Roads--Interchanges and intersections Lost architecture Neoclassicism (Architecture) Gothic revival (Architecture) Architecture--Spanish influences Security Trust and Savings Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Security Trust & Savings Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood Plaza Hotel (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Bank buildings High schools Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Equitable Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Guaranty Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Methodist church buildings First Methodist Church of Hollywood (Hollywood, Calif.) Morgan, Walls, & Clements Curlett, Aleck Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945 Meyer & Holler Dorn, Fred R Gogerty, Henry L Parkinson, John,1861-1935 Las Palmas Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schrader Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cherokee Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Yucca Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cahuenga Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Vine Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Wilcox Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Highland Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Selma Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) El Centro Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Aerial photographs
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