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[16] pp. Illustrated from photographs & drawings. 20.4x14 cm (8x5½"), color pictorial wrappers.

Rare Art Nouveau-inspired brochure for the Hollywood Hotel, famous society venue of early Hollywood formerly located at 6811 Hollywood Boulevard, on the north side, extending from Highland Avenue to Orchid Avenue, in central Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel opened in December 1902, built by early Hollywood developer H.J. Whitley, to support selling residential lots to potential buyers arriving from Los Angeles by the electric Balloon Route trolley of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. Increasing business compelled the building of an additional 40-room wing onto the hotel in 1905. The fame of the Hollywood Hotel, like that of Hollywood, came from its identity with the Hollywood movie industry, beginning in the 1910s. No copies of this brochure are found in OCLC/WorldCat.