Astaire, Fred, 257
Astoria Studios, 131
Atkinson, Brooks, 295
Au Petit Café, 340
Austin, John C., 117
Autrey, Gene, 139, 226, 279
Avalon, The, 376, 387. See also Hollywood Palace
Baby Peggy (Montgomery), 87, 243
Baby Snooks, 257. See also Fanny Brice
Bacall, Lauren (Betty Perske), 273
Badlanz, 371
Bailey, Jack, 289
Baine, Colonel Harry, 154, 186, 277
Baker, Carroll, 383
Baker, Phil, 257
Baldwin, D.P., 166
Ball, Lucille, 272, 301
Balloon Excursion Route, 30
Bally Total Fitness, 342
Bamboo Room (Brown Derby), 230
Bank of America, 207, 337, 351
Bank of Hollywood Building, 154. See also Equitable Building
Bank of Hollywood, 36, 137, 174
Bankhead, Tallulah, 98, 303
Barbera, Joe, 241
Bard’s Playhouse, 71–72, 121. See also Vista Theatre
Barham Boulevard, 8
Barker Brothers, 155, 186, 325
Barnes, Billy, 303
Barnes and Noble Books, 357
Barnsdall Park, 325, 382
Barnsdall Park Jr. Arts Center, 325
Barnsdall, Aline, 98, 195, 325
Barnyard Frolics Revue, 196
Barrymore, John, 124, 147, 150, 188, 195, 227, 229, 241, 257, 286
Bartlett, A.G., 34, 45, 153
Bass brothers, 333, 337
Baum, L. Frank, 65, 71, 89, 93
Baum, Maud, 221, 242, 303
Beach Boys, 320
Beachwood Canyon, 4, 53, 90
Beat Goes On, The, 320
Beatles, 320
Beauty Bar, 377, 380
Beery, Noah, 111
Beery, Wallace, 78, 137, 179
Beesemyer, Gilbert, 103, 104–105, 135, 137, 147, 154, 174, 176
Beesemyer, William, 102
Bell, Horace, 19
Bell, Rex, 230
Benchley, Robert, 238
Bendix, William, 214
Benny, Jack, 248, 257, 285, 290
Benton & Bowles, 286
Bergen, Edgar, 257, 272, 290, 291, 295
Bergman, Henry, 129
Bergman, Ingrid, 222
Berle, Milton, 328, 370
Berlin, Irving, 267
Bernard Luggage, 382
Bernardi, Ernani (L.A. City Councilman), 335
Bernheimer, Adolph, 90
Bernstein, Jay, 383
Bertenelli, Valerie, 355
Bette Davis, The Life of, 275
Better Government Association, 336
Betty Blanc Company, 214
Beveridge, Daeida. See Wilcox, Daeida
Beveridge, Philo Judson, 24, 29, 42, 44, 103, 119, 124, Beverly Christian Church. See Hollywood
Beverly Christian Church
Beverly Hills Citizen, 315
Beverly Hills, 133, 138, 368
Beyond the Rocks, 110
Biberman, Herbert, 280, 282
Big Broadcast of 1932, The, 248
Big Parade, 150
Bigger, A.J., 168
Bioff, William “Willie”, 236, 281
Biograph Film Company, 58, 68
Bireley, C., 46, 103
Birth of a Nation, The, 71, 79, 87, 93, 283
Bishop, Joey, 319
Bitzer, Billy, 68, 77, 87, 127
Blackie’s, 198, 281
Blackouts, 271-272, 285, 295
Blackton, Commodore J. Stuart, 62, 163, 190
Blanc, Mel, 247
Blandick, Clara, 315
Blessed Sacrament Church, 38, 180, 289, 325
Blondeau, Louis, 61, 70, 129, 132, 168
Blondeau (family), 19, 41, 61, 70
Blondeau Tavern, 18, 19, 62, 64
Blondell, Joan, 209, 231
Blood and Sand, 131
Blossom Room (Roosevelt Hotel), 230
Blue Front, 100, 129. See also Armstrong Carlton Café
BMG, 368
BMI, 267
Boardner’s, 378
Bogart, Humphrey, 127, 238, 299
Bolger, Ray, 221
Bolton, Betty, 166
Bon Jovi, 367
Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 84, 90, 133, 145
Bond, Larry, 383
Bonnie Brier Hotel, 69, 207
Bonnie Brier Tract, 46
Bono, Sonny, 301, 320
Book City, 369
Bosko the Clown, 190
Bow, Clara, 122, 150, 209, 230
Bower, John, 11, 12, 13
Bowery Boys, 239
Bowie, David, 347
Boyer, Charles, 190, 236, 254, 274
Bracken, Eddie, 286
Bradbury, Ray, 329
Bradley’s Bar, 198, 282
Brando, Marlon, 329
Brandstatter, Eddie, 124, 179, 181, 196, 206, 272, 302, 378
Bratton, Benjamin (Los Angeles Police Chief), 381
Breakfast at Sardi’s, 272, 285, 302
Breakfast in Hollywood (movie), 285
Breakfast in Hollywood (radio), 285, 294
Breneman, Tom, 270, 272, 285, 286, 294, 302
Brice, Fanny, 188, 258
Broadway Hollywood Department Store, 184, 238, 289, 328, 382
Brolin, James, 364
Brooks, Bob, 233
Brooks, Hadda, 264
Brown Derby (Vine Street), 178, 179, 188, 190, 205, 211, 216, 229, 230, 236, 249, 262, 286, 341, 354, 355, 368, 372
Brown Derby (Wilshire), 179, 334
Brown, Karl, 89
Browne, George, 236
Bruce, Lenny, 327
Brunson, C.B., 119
Brunton Studio, 87
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke”, 236
Buchanan, Jack, 147
Buck Privates, 273
Buckland, Wilford, 85
Buena Vista Theatre, Inc., 381
Buffalo Springfield (rock band), 321
Bugs Bunny, 190
Burbank, 368
Burnett, Carol, 268, 302
Burns and Allen, 257, 259, 262, 290, 300
Burns, L.L., 67
Burr, Raymond, 310
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 98, 190
Burrows Motor Company, 131
Bush, Jenna, 378
Bushman, Francis X., 77, 87, 136
Business Improvement Districts (BID), 364. See also Hollywood Entertainment District’s BID
Butterfield Stagecoach, 7
Bwana Devil, 298
C.C. Brown Ice Cream Parlor, 166, 369
Cabot, Bruce, 180
Cabueg-na, 4, 5, 71
Café Gala, 282
Cage, Nicholas, 347, 371
Cagney, James, 155, 166, 199, 206, 207, 236, 328
Cahn, Sammy, 267
Cahuenga, 5
CahuengaBoulevard, 8, 10, 36, 37, 40, 43, 45, 52, 60, 98, 103, 105, 117, 129, 149, 150, 154, 155, 184, 191, 193, 242, 280, 371, 377
Cahuenga Hills, 3
Cahuenga Pass Hotel, 8, 41. See also Eight Mile House
Cahuenga Pass, 2, 4, 5, 36, 52, 75, 80, 132, 239
Cahuenga to Western Boulevard Improvement Association, 154
Cahuenga Valley Improvement Association, 29
Cahuenga Valley Lemon Growers’ Exchange, 23
Cahuenga Valley Railroad, 16, 18
Cahuenga Valley Sentinel, 37, 45, 60
Cahuenga Water Gardens, 30
Cain, James, 235, 268
California Magazine, 330
Californios, 6, 7
Calloway, Cab, 266
Camel Caravan, 249
Cameron, Mabel, 100, Camino Real, 4, 5, 6, 53
Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?, 111
Cantor, Eddie, 188, 199, 245, 248, 249, 257, 258, 295
Capitol Records, 267, 286, 301, 320, 370, 382
Carmen, Richard, 336
Carmen, 77
Carmichael, Hoagy, 180
Carnegie, Andrew, 51
Carnival, 254
Carolina Pines, 333, 334
Carousel, 231
Carpenter’s Drive-in, 315
Carpenter’s, 309
Carradine, John, 195, 229
Carrey, Jim, 347
Carrillo, Leo, 148
Carroll, Earl, 265, 294, 265
Carroll, Nancy, 173
Carson, Johnny, 290
Carson’s Cellar, 290
Carthay Circle, 216
Caruso, Enrico, 85
Casa Cahuenga, 18, 19 See also Six Mile House
Casa Don Tomás, 7, 10, 20, 133, 138, 151. See also The Outpost and Urquidez, Tomás
Cassity family (Hollywood Forever Cemetery), 361
Cassyd, Sid, 290, 291
Casting Director’s Album of Screen Children, 124
Castle Argyle, 174, 179, 198, 310, 325
Castles in the Air, 148
Catalina Bar and Grill, 376
Catholic Motion Picture League of America, 186
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 248, 249, 250, 252–53, 259, 260, 285, 286, 287, 290, 292, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System-Television City), 300, 386
CBS Radio Playhouse, 250, 257, 258, 274, 275, 303 See also Vine Street Theatre and Huntington Hartford Theatre
Celebrity Theatre, 358, 367, 372
Center for Feeling Therapy, 327
Central Casting, 161, 174, 347
Century Theatre, 326, 340 See also Hunley
Chambers, Stan, 289
Champion, Gower, 303
Chandler, Harry, 21, 28, 52, 242, 246
Chandler, Norman, 266
Chandler, Raymond, 236
Chaney, Lon Jr., 148, 206
Chaney, Lon, 73, 77, 88, 127, 133, 136, 176, 206
Channing, Carol, 303
Chaplin, Charlie, 79, 81, 83, 87, 96, 108, 119, 127, 129, 138, 168, 180, 188, 222, 224, 284, 311
Charlie Chaplin Studio, 81, 82, 188, 320, 367
Chapman’s Ice Cream Parlor, 166
Charise, Cyd, 327
Charlot’s Revue, 147
Chase and Sanborne Program, 248
Chasen, Dave, 239
Chasen’s, 239, 365
Chateau Elysee, 342
Chateau Elysées, 138
Chateau Marmont, 235
Cheap Trick (rock band), 367
Cheers, 377
Cheiro, 195
Cher, 320, 321
Cheremoya Elementary School, 82
Cherokee Books, 329
Cherokee Building, 135
Chevalier, Maurice, 205, 229
Chevy Show, The, 295
Children’s Community Chorus, 145
Chinese Theatre, Grauman’s, 136, 144, 157, 158, 179, 181, 186, 190, 195, 218, 221, 223, 272, 276, 298, 328, 371, 385–387
Choral Society, 145
Christian, Fred, 245, 246
Christie Brothers Comedy Studio, 87, 188. See also Nestor Film Company
Christie Brothers Realty Building, 180
Christie Hotel, 117, 229, 230, 264, 310, 342. See also Drake Hotel
Christie, Al, 62, 103, 127, 134, 141, 180
Christie, Charles, 141, 142, 173, 180
Christie, H.H., 80, 103, 117, 127, 134, 141
Church of Blessed Sacrament, 134
Church of Scientology, 342, 349
Church of Spiritual Science, 195
Churchill, Winston, 124
Churrigueresque, 201, 312
Cinegrill (Roosevelt Hotel), 230, 377
Cinema Sports Center, 233
Cinemart Building, 188, 233, 267, 310
Cinematheque, 360, 383, 385
Cinerama Dome, 317, 370
Cinerama Sports Bowling, 268. See also Newsview Theatre
Cinespace, 371, 378
Cinnabar (Plaza Hotel), 230
Circus Café, 231
Circus, The, 158
Ciro’s, 267
Citicorp Bank, 365
Citizen Kane, 268
City Lights, 224
Citywalk, 349
Civic Club, 73
Claire, Ina, 87, 195
Clapton, Eric, 370
Clark, E.P., 29
Clark, Mrs. Chauncy, 242
Clark, Roy, 320
Claussen, Henry, 17
Clooney, George, 381
Club Lingerie, 321
Club New Yorker, 229. See also Greenwich Village Café and London Grill
Clune Studio, 87
Cobb, Robert, 179, 188, 262, 328
Cobb, Sally, 328
Coca-Cola Company, 226, 358
Coca-Cola sign, 226, 359
Coco Tree Café, 206, 261, 341. See also Melody Lane, Hody’s and Howard Johnson’s
Coconut Grove, 124, 144
Coffee Dan’s Restaurant, 285, 321, 329
Coffee Time at Harmony Homestead, 286
Cohn, Harry, 150, 188, 196, 273
Colbert, Claudette, 190, 209
Cole, Cornelius, 11, 29, 34, 38, 103, 151
Cole, Nat “King”, 264, 286
Colegrove Episcopal Church, 38
Colegrove, 11, 34, 37, 52, 78, 151
Colgate Comedy Hour, 290, 295
Collector’s Books, 329
Colman, Ronald, 180, 188
Colony Club, 196
Colony Theater, 203, 204
Columbia Pictures, 150, 188, 200, 239, 273, 324
Columbia Records, 266
Columbia Square Playhouse, 252, 290, 386
Command Performance, 275
Community Advisory Committee (CAC), 341, 362
Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), 332, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 347, 362, 364, 366, 368, 370, 376, 383, 385
Congregational Church of Hollywood, 269
Conklin, Chester, 96
Coogan, Jackie, 79
Cooper, Gary, 161, 189, 199, 220, 250, 258, 262, 281
Cooper, John, 104
Copper Penny, 329
Country Church of Hollywood, The (radio program), 248. See also Little Country Church
Covered Wagon, The, 127
Cow Cow Boogie, 267
Coward, Noel, 303
Crabbe, Buster, 188
Crawford, Broderick, 262
Crawford, Joan, 122, 139, 188, 195, 205, 233, 250, 303
Creque Building, 105, 132, 207
Creque, J.P., 60
Crisp, Donald, 284
Criswell, 304, 310
Cronyn, Hume, 303
Crosby, Bing, 180, 214, 227, 233, 241, 248, 257, 262, 266, 295, 319
Crosby, Dixie Lee, 180
Crowe, Russell, 378
Cuban Pete, 272
Cultural Heritage, Los Angeles, 340–341
Culver, Harry, 132
Cummings, Robert, 223
Daffy Duck, 190
Dailey Variety, 223, 258, 271, 280
Daisey Dell Canyon, 112
Dames at Sea, 326
Dandridge, Dorothy, 223
Daniels, Bebe, 124, 130
Darnell, Linda, 273, 302
Dave Clark Five, 321
Davies, Marion, 177, 191, 227
Davis, Bette, 177, 209, 222, 250, 274, 275, 303, 337
Davis, Ed (L.A. Police Chief), 324
Davis, Mike, 331
Davis, Miles, 264
Davis, Sammy Jr., 295, 296
Day of the Locust, 238
Day, Dennis, 267
Day, Doris, 258, 286
De Acosta, Mercedes, 188
De Haven, Carter, 147
de Longpre Courts, 99
de Longpre, Josephine, 61, 75
de Longpre, Paul, 31, 32, 44, 45, 54, 61, 372
De Mille, Agnes, 82
DeMille, Cecil B, 67, 71, 77, 83, 85, 90, 92, 95, 96, 127, 137, 149, 158, 179, 244, 246, 249, 250, 258, 260, 261, 262, 268, 270, 283, 302, 303, 311, 341
de Mille, Mrs. William, 78, de Mille, William, 73, 77, 141, 145, 159, 163, 191, 241
Decca Records, 266
Deco Landmark Building, 354
Dee, Rick, 346
Dee, Virginia, 141
Deep (nightclub), 378, 381
Del Rio, Dolores, 180, 209, 211, 249
Demarest, William, 139
Dempsey, Jack, 135
Dennis the Menace, 315
Denny, Reginald, 147, 215
Department of the Interior (see National Register of Historic Places)
Destiny’s Child, 374
DeSylva, Buddy, 267
DeVore, Sy, 296, 297
Diamond Jim’s, 320
Diamond, Mike, 371
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 378
Dietrich, Marlene, 142, 188, 205, 209, 221, 229, 230, 233, 244, 250, 274, 329
Dinsdale, Shirley, 290, 291
Disney, Roy, 150
Disney, Walt, 150, 206, 223, 239, 262, 282, 299
Dix, Beulah Marie, 82
Dixon, Reverend Thomas, 87
Dobie Gillis, 314
Dollar Days in Hollywood, 212
Dolly, Jennie, 242
Dominoes, 229
Don Juan, 150
Don Lee Broadcasting System (later Mutual/Don Lee Broadcasting), 288, 289, 292, 361
Don the Beachcomber, 233, 234, 333
Doolittle Theatre, 352, 382, 383, Doolittle, Oscar, 82, 92, 93
Doors, The, 370
Dot Records, 266
Douglas, Melvyn, 281
Dow Jones Company, 358
Downey, Morton, 147
Dracula, 188
Drake Hotel, 310. See also Christie Hotel and Hollywood Inn
Dresden Room, 371
Dressler, Marie, 139
Duffy, Henry, 148, 221
Duffy’s Tavern, 285
Duncan sisters (Vivian and Rosetta), 157
Dunlop, George, 40, 42
Dunlop, Zella, 40
Dunne, Irene, 282
Dupont Hotel, 144
Durante, Jimmie, 286
Dyas Company (Dyas Emporium), 154, 184
E! Entertainment, 349
Eagles, The, 323
Earl Carroll’s dinner theater, 265, 270, 328, 294
Eastman Kodak, 360
Ed Wynn Show, The, 290, 291
Edendale, 62, 68
Edgemont Club, 196
Edmonds, Kenny “Babyface”, 371
Edmonds, Larry, 197, 241, 242
Edwards, Ralph, 285, 288, 296
Egyptian Theatre, 28, 119, 128, 131, 136, 150, 152, 157, 223, 298, 339, 352, 354, 360, 383
Eight Mile House, 8, 41, 102
El Adobe Building, 167, 249
El Adobe, 166
El Capitan Building, 155, 186
El Capitan Theatre, 147, 148, 186, 223, 268, 270, 272, 342, 352, 377. See also Hollywood Paramount
El Capitan (Vine Street), 289, 295, 296, 319
Elderlovelies, 271
Electric Prune, 323
Ellington, Duke, 266
Eltinge, Julian, 77
Embassy Club, 180, 196, 296
Emmy Awards, 291, 292
End of a Perfect Day, The, 84. See also Bond, Carrie Jacobs
Entwistle, Peg, 186
Epstein, Aaron, 362, 381
Epstein, Louis, 238
Equitable Building, 154, 155, 259, 275, 286, 382
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