Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

West of Laurel Canyon it continues as a small residential street in the hills, finally ending at Sunset Plaza Drive. On the east side of Hollywood Boulevard it passes through the neighborhoods of Little Armenia and Thai Town.

The famous street was named Prospect Avenue from 1887 to 1910, when the town of Hollywood was annexed to the city of Los Angeles. After annexation, the street numbers changed from 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, to 6400 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Hollywood, California - where, beginning a century ago, the great American dream burst out of our collective subcoscious and into the open. There is no other name that frees our fantasies and stirs our hopes and fears, our tears and our eternal romances, like that single incomparable word - Hollywood. In the seventeenth century when Spanish explorers first entered the area now known as Hollywood, Native Americans had been living in the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains since time immemorial. Before long, the Indians had been moved to missions and the land which Hollywood now occupies was divided in two by the Spanish Government. Acreage to the west became part of Rancho La Brea and settlements to the East became Rancho Los Feliz. Read more...

Well i've lived here in Hollywood all my life, and I've had the most wonderful time ever! I have had tourists on the street approach me asking me what the best spots to visit where... so that got me thinking! I have lived here my whole life, and have visited almost every single place in Hollywood/West Hollywood/Beverly Hills/Westwood. So I will be listing the best places to visit when your in and around the area.....ready? lets get started! Read more...

• WeHo Halloween Costume Carnaval Street Closures - Oct 27, 2009 3:58 pm US/Pacific - WEST HOLLYWOOD - With thousands of costumed revelers expected to descend on West Hollywood for the annual Halloween Costume Carnaval, motorists were warned today to expect street closures this weekend in the heart of the city. The event, billed as one of the world's largest Halloween celebrations, will be held from...
• Kardashian, Odom, Goodwin Go to the Dogs at The GQ ,NSF, Humane Society Benefit - Shoeless in the Hollywood Hills - BY JENNY PETERS - Posted: 09/24/2009 07:39:25 AM PDT - It was a good cause but a bad party on Tuesday night, as "GQ" magazine joined forces with menswear line NSF and the Humane Society to shine the spotlight on the cruelty perpetrated in puppy mills across the country...