Outside NBC’s Radio City in Hollywood, 1948.
Courtesy of the USC Libraries - Dick Whittington Photography Collection
When Hollywood was a country town, circa 1905.
The view looks southwest from Whitley Heights. The curved street in the foreground is Highland Avenue, and the road running roughly left to right through the center of the photo is Hollywood Boulevard.
Part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
The historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard has been renamed “TCL Chinese Theatre,” the Los Angeles Times reported today. From the USC Digital Library’s California Historical Society Collection, here’s a photo of the theater hosting the 1930 world premiere of Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels.
Each December, metallic toy Christmas trees like this one transformed a one-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard into Santa Claus Lane. Learn more with L.A. as Subject’s latest KCET contribution about Tinseltown’s erstwhile holiday tradition.
This circa 1938 photo is part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library.
