Hollywood High School - Poinsettia Yearbook (Hollywood, CA)

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From H0llyw0od,s back yard, in 1905, one could see mansions and bungalows. The street in the middle foreground is Hawthorne and our present Boys' Gym occupies the site of the house in the center of the picture. Valley towns gaze up independence Only live years after the new High School was built, the communities of the Cahuenga Valley were beset by a serious water shortage. The solution for Hollywood and her sister townships was to ask for annexation to Los Angeles, the sprawling giant to the east whose half million people had solved the water problem by building an acquaduct 300 miles north to the melt- ing snows of the Sierras. Thus Hollywood's separate existence as a city came to an end, and with it the separate existence of the Union High School District which was now absorbed into the Los Angeles City School System. Today, no one speaks of the Cahuenga Valley. Colegrove, Sherman, Prospect Park are forgotten names. But Hollywood has retained its identity. Title Insurance and Tmst Company ' .lf X .., 3502: fv ,..,,.fw 1rT'??' J' 'X 3:21 . F' s y3i'1, j-g,f,,z3Lf K -ag A 1 ff nhyffk vga, X K 4 - is .!.'!t, it n f - I l ,.,. ,,:fW 'fjff3f ',-,,Q'i, ' xl , ' ' . ...i-as 'agrgi,fg+,g ,, .. ,,. A vefgfrfzfi.-,axwshswua . . if-fs ,ga -2 . V 'A 1 ., V 9 People came from miles around to visit the home of flower painter Paul De Longpre. It stood on Cahuenga north of the Boulevard. Title Insurance and Trust Company The interior of the De Longpre home was lavishly decorated. Daily streetcar excursions brought tourists from far-off Los Angeles. Title Insurance and Trust Company This aerial shot of the school was made in about 1920. We're looking north from Sunset. The Memorial Auditorium and the Boys' Gym have yet to be built. Today, only the Library fthen the auditoriumj and the Girls' Gym remain, but the layout now is much the same. Historical Collection, Security-First National Bank

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3.3 Again we're on the hill above Franklin and Orange, but how buildings. To the right of the domed Administration Building is Hollywood has grown! Far to the south, around what is now Science Hall, and next to it is the Industrial Arts building. The Beverly Boulevard, oil wells are sprouting. The school boasts six year is 1913. T his quiet, tree-shaded country lane is Wilcox Avenue, looking north from Hollywood Boulevard, as it appeared in 1903. All around were farms and orchards. Today this is the very heart of H ollywood's business district. Personal collection, Mr. C. E. Toberman The s Title Insurance and Trust Company teep, winding dirt road on the left is Cahuenga Pass. On the right, a steam shovel is excavating the roadbed for the street- car line to the San Fernando Valley. Today, the Hollywood Free- way g oes right through the center of the picture. Title Insurance and Trust Company