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In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with Hotel Roosevelt listed as a contributing property in the district. [8] On August 13, 1991, the City of Los Angeles declared the hotel building Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 545. [4] [9]
The neighborhood was connected by rail to Los Angeles in 1887, Paul de Longpré built its first tourist attraction in 1901, and the entire area was annexed into the city of Los Angeles in 1910. [2] Most of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was built between 1915 and 1939, during the rapid boom of the film industry.
When Boadway's went out of business the next year, B. H. Dyas, a Downtown Los Angeles–based department store, [8] opened in the 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m 2) building in March 1928, then sold their lease to The Broadway in 1931 – the building still a landmark today, known as the Broadway Hollywood Building.
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel
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At least $12,000 worth of Nike items were stolen from a shopping center in Los Angeles on Sunday, 19 November, according to police. A "flash mob" of 17 suspects ran into the store on South Alameda ...
Hollywood's Guaranty Building was built in 1923, with Gilbert Bessemyer as the owner [1] and Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille included as investors. [2] The building features Beaux-Arts architecture and was designed by John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley, with John Austin and his partners noted at the time for their work on Los Angeles City Hall, Griffith Observatory, Cathedral of Saint ...
The site was the location of the 1902 Hollywood Hotel, in which many celebrities stayed in the early days of Hollywood.The hotel was demolished in August 1956 and, despite initial plans for a high-rise hotel and a department store on the site, [6] [7] it was replaced by the twelve-story First Federal Building of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Hollywood; a shopping center; and ...