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| Excerpt from STORMY WEATHER |
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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 and dwarfed
the burgeoning studios to the south as well. Back then it
would have have been surpassed in height by only a few offices
on the Boulevard and the Hollywoodland sign to the north,
the latter erected by developers to promote the hillside
lots they were trying to unload on sun-seeking suckers from
back East. Somewhere along the way the LAND part of the
sign disappeared, as did most of those smaller studios and
vacant land, gobbled up by Hollywood Freeway, a slew of
now-deteriorating buildings along the Boulevard and Spanish-language
billboards that overran the place like weeds.
If you would like to read more of STORMY WEATHER check it
out in the Books
page. Get more information about the Hollywoodland
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