Hollywood High School - Poinsettia Yearbook (Hollywood, CA)

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Memorial Auditorium was reconstructed during 1957-58. Always one of the largest auditoriums in Los Angeles, it is today one of the most beautiful. Hollyowod Chamber of Commerce xx, 6 C 5 A careful examination of the picture will reveal the Pilgrimage Playhouse in the up- per right-hand corner. Historical Collection, Security-First National Bank By 1924 our community presented a very grown-up appearance, with skyscrapers clustered in the Hollywood-Vine area and much building in progress. The view is toward the east, with Hollywood Boulevard running diagonally across the shot. The school, still minus a Boys' Gym, is at the bottom right hand corner, Historical Collection, Security-First National Bank The first motion picture was made in Hollywood in 1912, but world-wide renown as the capital of the movies did not arrive until the early 'twenties These are the sets for the 1924 super-spectacle, The Thief of Bagdadf starring Douglas F airbanks. Historical Collection, Security-First National Bank

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-1 ...Z Hollywood Boulevard looking west from Wilcox in 1923. Will H. Hays, being wel- comed on the banner in the foreground, was a former Postmaster General and President of the Motion Picture Producers Association. His job was to clean up the movies and avoid government censorship. Historical Collection, Security-First National Bank i l 1 A Tin Lizzie -you know it as a Model T-chugs up Cahuenga Pass, near Mulholland. Below the road to the right, a streetcar is whizzing toward North Hollywood. The streetcar got there frst, hack in 1922. Historical Collection. Security-First National Bank , ffQ:.v4.wlf ' 7 ' , ' , ?g, N ' ' ef f ,- ,W- . m f if ' ' ' -., Qgwzff , ,,,, g M . V r ' ,, H . TWO. , I ,,.,. 1-fer ffa: 'ffm , 'srrs 4 i i rsr....r , . W' vm,.sem-f'g1is5y ...,.. D. ,.,. - 45,1 ,,- : yr I . 15 X' f- .Ifaf 'fin ' if-V yi' IVI. ,V-.219 1 fy Af,f k,,Q -35 , I MQW' 4 K if-5452, ,gg,.fff.-,E V- ' s n '.r' 7222- 2. 7-ff' - TPM'-,?,,.e vf'WQ ww-'.'-Ifaiizfx-t5 21,54 'WE' in wffvfzn-inn ,.-. Q w, , f-. ,.,s-. f M5534-VHQEW.4.fq3s?'n:,4gH ,. 'ifE t N 1 f'-' - , -?32flQm '1-'tiff' --.ftfkvfwz of ' ins' V ,rp - Y-1, is-.N 4- 4r'w:3f:,g,ga,,f-fr.. ,:, r,4.,.:,hg,f,v egg, -fbygggsg. ig.-,ffgtg.g--',g4.,gQ,4,A--5'f'wg'341 f.n,az'Qg-gnzvwggitg. y,.r1.wf.i-gig':.smff 445' '4-77 f fcf f 'fil' 'I X ,T e:l?t :lj'vI:f?f ,i'::Sf : . -' 'iff Half .Jr llfI ,fiU, , ' 1 rr.. 1 fe: ,.,. -P be .,, ., , ..,,.., .W I ,, . , - . .,., , ,. . 1 1 fx ,. in ,,..,. 1 V, 1 33: ,SQ yg: 5,6 fy f QV, IOQX -A - I I V' I i X, V .X , V , W zz., , ,,, ,.,, f, ,,.,, fists ua, ,,,, . ',f,.1?-f 5 may 1 V -. ,QL In 1924, Hollywood High School's mag- nificent Memorial Auditorium, dedicated to Holl wood boys who lost their lives in World War I, was opened. One of the earliest shots on record of Hol- lywood Bowl-around 1923. The benches tilted at all angeles, but no one cared.

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I . O. Churchill William H. Snyder Louis F. Foley Principal, 1903-1908 Principal, 1908-1929 Principal, 1929-1954 Harold Perry Sam Hamerrnan Principal, 1954-1961 PfinCi79C1l, 1961-1962