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 right; view is looking north. Other visible buildings include: Pantages Theater, E.F. Hutton Building, Broadway Hollywood, Hotel Knickerbocker, Guaranty Building, and Hollywood Taft Building. The streets are (diagonally, l to r): Selma Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard, and Yucca Street; and (bottom to top) Gower Street, Argyle Avenue, Vine Street, Ivar Avenue, and Cahuenga Boulevard, to name a few. The Hollywood (101) Freeway is visible along the right. Photograph dated June 16, 1956.
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image
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1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm. Photographic safety negatives
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