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Originally Posted by Joe Vogel
The structure was the canopy over the entrance to the Broadway Department Store. There was another on the Vine Street side of the building. It had lights underneath, and the vent was probably there to let the heat from the incandescent bulbs escape. There was probably a second vent closer to the camera's position. The canopy was not temporary, but was there in the 1920s when the store was the B. H. Dyas Company. I think it was removed in a remodeling of the facade in the early 1950s.
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You're absolutely correct Joe Vogel!
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...chs-m3224.html
below: The canopies can be seen in this earlier photograph when it was
the B.H. Dyas Store.
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=74887
below: Here's a great view looking west toward Hollywood & Vine in 1934. If you look closely you can see one of the canopies over the Hollywood Blvd. entrance (southwest corner of the intersection).
http://la.remap.ucla.edu/remappingla...g2_itemId=6772