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Originally Posted by tovangar2
The long-demolished Columbia Drugstore, SE corner of Sunset & Gower, tucked into the corner of Columbia Studios (now Sunset-Gower Studios). It was gorgeous inside with wood phone booths and a soda fountain in back. They sold theatrical make up and all sorts of unusual things. It still had all its original shop fittings when I knew it in the 70's as my local drugstore when I lived in a 1915 craftsman on a forgotten strip of Beachwood Dr between Columbia Studios and Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever). There was a great news stand too, outside, under the awning, on Columbia Drug's Gower St side.
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Memories like this are priceless to the thread. Thanks for sharing.
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posted earlier by
tovanger2
wikipedia
I circled the
original portion of the Hollywood Hotel Hotel in gray at far right.
below: Here is a wonderful photograph of Prospect Avenue before it was renamed Hollywood Boulevard.
You can clearly see the
original Hollywood Hotel (with strawberry fields across the street).
newly listed on ebay
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