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Title: World Famous Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, California
Creator: Plunkett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Hollywood Boulevard as seen from the intersection with Vine Street in Hollywood, California, with the Broadway Hollywood Building in the foreground and the Brown Derby Restaurant in the distance. Visible signs and storefronts include "Sidney's Ltd.," "Firefly Cocktails," "The Ham n Egger," "Five Thirty," "Gidlow & Sellers," "The Brown Derby Hollywood Shop," "Western Air Lines," "California Bank," and "Dancing Nite," with a billboard for "Downtown Airlines ticket office across the street Plaza Hotel lobby" with fares posted "New York $99, Chicago $75, Honolulu $119, San Francisco $9.95."
"World Famous Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood, California" "P. 205" and "© Bob Plunkett"--text, on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date devised by cataloger based on business history; a "Quitting Business" sign is visible in the window of Sidney's Ltd., which closed in 1951 (see Los Angeles Times advertisement, March 11, 1951, page B11).
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 12.5 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488391
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20624
Subject: Brown Derby Restaurant (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Automobiles
Business districts
Streets
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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