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In her novel Stormy Weather, Paula L. Woods wrote: "Hollywood Tower was a seven-story, indecisive gray building at the corner of Franklin and Vista Del Mar in Hollywood. The faux French Normandy apartment building was so old it probably had a view of the sea when it was built [...] Hollywood Tower, though, was a last vestige of an earlier era.
Yucca Vine Tower was built in the Art Deco style by Henry L. Gogerty, the architect also responsible for the nearby Palace Theatre, Baine Building, and Hollywood Studio Building. Built in 1929, the building has been called Hollywood's first skyscraper, [ 2 ] although Christie Hotel , built five years prior, has also been given that distinction ...
Christie Hotel is a historic eight-story building at 6724 W. Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California. Considered Hollywood's first skyscraper [ 1 ] and also its first luxury hotel, [ 2 ] the building features Georgian Revival architecture and has been described as "an excellent example of its style" by the United States Department of the ...
Celebrated architect Norman Foster has unveiled plans for a new $1-billion office tower in Los Angeles that will see greenery spilling out from a series of terraces spiraling up its facade.. The ...
Hollywood real estate developer doubles down on plans for "the Star," a proposed office tower on Sunset Boulevard, designed by Norman Foster, with a $1-billion price tag.
The lobby of the Hollywood Tower Hotel at Disney's Hollywood Studios, May 2010. In the American and European versions of the attraction, guests make their way to the dilapidated Hollywood Tower Hotel through the front gate to enter the queue through overgrown gardens and then enter the hotel lobby.
The hotel also hosted notable guests from beyond Los Angeles and the United States. Songwriter Carrie Jacobs Bond composed her famous song A Perfect Day, and sang it, while a guest at the Hollywood Hotel. In 1922 Almira Hershey lost a breach of contract dispute with the hotel's long time manager George Krom, which allowed him to purchase the ...
Postcard circa 1940s. Designed by John M. Cooper [2] and/or E. M. Frasier, [3] the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a luxury apartment house in 1925 and then converting to a hotel, [1] while the United States Department of the Interior cite the Knickerbocker as opening as a hotel 1929. [2]