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 (left of center) and El Centro Avenue. Notable structures include the Vine Street Theatre (lower left), the Taft Building (left of center), the Pantages Theatre (foreground), the Hollywood Plaza Hotel (lower left of center), Broadway Hollywood (lower left of center), the Equitable Building (lower center), the Guaranty Building (lower center), the Security Trust & Savings Bank (center), the Knickerbocker Hotel (right of center), the Yucca Vine Tower (right of center), the Fontenoy apartments (upper right of center), the Montecito apartment building (upper right), the First National Bank of Hollywood (top, left of center), Hollywood High School (top left), and the Hollywood Methodist Church (top, right of center).
Streets Stores & shops Dwellings Apartments Commercial buildings Office buildings Broadway Hollywood Roads--Interchanges and intersections Central business districts Architecture--Spanish influences Departments stores Automobiles Theaters Motion picture theaters Lost architecture Gothic revival (Architecture) Neoclassicism (Architecture) Security Trust and Savings Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Security Trust & Savings Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Bank buildings High schools Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Methodist church buildings Montecito (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.) Fontenoy Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.) Equitable Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) First Methodist Church of Hollywood (Hollywood, Calif.) Parkinson, Donald B.(Donald Berthold),1895-1945 Meyer & Holler Bryant, Leland A Gogerty, Henry L Barber, Thomas P Miller, Marcus P Morgan, Walls, & Clements Parkinson, John,1861-1935 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 Yucca Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cahuenga Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Vine Street (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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