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Originally Posted by BDiH
Well put & I agree.
I remember when those streetlights were installed. Thank god they are gone!
I recently heard somebody mention 1969 as Hollywood's Golden Era. Please
I was selling the Free Press in front of the Pandora's Box site in 1967 and later on the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cherokee Avenue. I was a distributor to the hippies that milled around and sold the paper for fifteen cents. There was a Rexall Drugstore on the corner and I remember the pharmacist came outside one day and took me aside. He asked me to move to another location. He was losing business. I didn't move and he soon closed the drugstore. I still feel guilty about that. 1969 was the beginning of the first downward spiral of Hollywood Boulevard.
That Rexall was once a Sontag drugstore and later a Love's restaurant. That address had many incarnations, but my best memory is sitting at the soda fountain at Rexall and ordering a ten cent Coke in a paper cone with crushed ice in a black plastic hour glass style holder. There were drugstore lunch counters all over Hollywood Boulevard back in the day, as well as ones at Woolworth's and Newberry's.
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Having worked in Hollywood in that time and before I would say it was on its way long before '69. I can remember '65 while working parking lots in the area, LAPD Metro would come in for a sweep on the week ends and clean up problems. However it would start over again Monday. I am sure others may have even earlier observations. In the early 50's it was not uncommon to have 10 year olds going to the movies with like age friends to Hollywood, I did. Now NO WAY!!!