Historic Hollywood
An illustrated history of the City of Hollywood,California, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
An illustrated history of the City of Hollywood,California, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
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Right: The Woolworth Building. C. E.<br />
Toberman’s first commercial building,<br />
a two-story structure built in 1910 at<br />
6410 <strong>Hollywood</strong> Boulevard. Operated<br />
by Woolworth’s from 1930 until the<br />
chain’s closing in the 1990s. The CIM<br />
Group ultimately purchased the<br />
building and removed the sheet metal<br />
façade that was added in 1953, and at<br />
the urging of <strong>Hollywood</strong> Heritage,<br />
agreed to do a restoration of the<br />
existing and missing architecture.<br />
Below: The Cinerama Dome in 2003.<br />
This unique movie theater was to have<br />
been drastically remodeled in 1999 as<br />
part of a new complex to be built<br />
around it. The remodeling was<br />
challenged for over two years by<br />
<strong>Hollywood</strong> Heritage and the Friends of<br />
Cinerama. The effort garnered support<br />
from such directors as John<br />
Frankenheimer, Stanley Kramer, Joe<br />
Dante, Sam Raimi, and Steven<br />
Spielberg, as well as film critic/historian<br />
Richard Schickel and many others.<br />
Finally agreeing to the preservation of<br />
the Dome and a smaller overall project,<br />
the restoration included the installation<br />
of a three-projector Cinerama, making<br />
it one of only three commercial<br />
Cinerama theaters in the world.<br />
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