Vine Street is a
street
A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...
in
Hollywood,
Los Angeles
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,
California
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that runs north–south between
Franklin Avenue
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and
Melrose Avenue
Melrose Avenue is a shopping, dining and entertainment destination in Los Angeles that starts at Santa Monica Boulevard, at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. It ends at Lucile Avenue in Silver Lake. Melrose runs north of Beve ...
. The
intersection with
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard is a major east–west street in Los Angeles, California. It begins in the east at Sunset Boulevard in the Los Feliz district and proceeds to the west as a major thoroughfare through Little Armenia and Thai Town, Hollywoo ...
was once a symbol of Hollywood itself. The famed intersection fell into disrepair during the 1970s but has since begun
gentrification
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and renewal with several high valued projects currently in progress. Three blocks of the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, Californ ...
lie along this street with names such as
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...
,
Johnny Carson
John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host, comedian, writer and producer. He is best known as the host of ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' (1962–1992). Carson received six Pr ...
, and
Audrey Hepburn
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. South of Melrose Avenue, Vine turns into Rossmore Avenue, a residential
Hancock Park
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The park's destinations include the La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which display ...
thoroughfare that ends at
Wilshire Boulevard
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.
Radio Row
In contrast to other American cities, where it referred to a concentration of radio stores, in Los Angeles, Radio Row was understood in the 1940s and 1950s as the area around the intersection of
Sunset Boulevard
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and Vine Street in
Hollywood, where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located. The last radio station to broadcast from a studio on Vine Street,
KNX-AM
KNX (1070 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It airs an all-news radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. KNX is one of the oldest stations in the United States, having received its first broadcasting license, ...
, closed its Vine Street studio in 2005.
[Pool, Bob]
"Hollywood, Radio Finally Part Waves"
Los Angeles Times
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, August 11, 2005.
Buildings
![20161005 Broadway Hollywood Building from Vine Street (4)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/20161005_Broadway_Hollywood_Building_from_Vine_Street_%284%29.jpg)
The
California Laundry
California Laundry was an early 1920s business in Hollywood, California, and in its day, possibly the city's largest business institution outside of the film studios. It was located on Vine Street. At the time it was established, the California ...
was located on the street in 1920s. The
Capitol Records Building
The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, is a 13-story tower building in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Designed by Louis Naidorf of Welton Becket Associates, it is one of the city's landmarks. Construction began soon aft ...
, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood & Vine.
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Miss Brewster's Millions
''Miss Brewster's Millions'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Clarence G. Badger directed and the ever-popular Bebe Daniels starred. It was based on the 1902 novel ...
'' (1926) starring
Bebe Daniels
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels (January 14, 1901 – March 16, 1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress, became a star in musicals such ...
, was shot on Vine Street at Franklin Avenue, near the site what is now the Capitol Records Building.
An underground station for the
Metro B Line is located one block east at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue.
Metro Local
Los Angeles Metro Bus is the transit bus service in Los Angeles County, California operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
, there are ...
line 210 serves Vine Street and Rossmore Avenue.
References
External links
Streets in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Streets in Los Angeles
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