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  Sunset Boulevard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades.
Sunset Boulevard used to extend farther east, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown, but the portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Interstate 110 was renamed César E. Chávez Avenue, along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader.
The best-known section of Sunset Boulevard is probably the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, which is an epicenter for nightlife in the Los Angeles area.
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 Sunset Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Downtown Los Angeles to Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean between Santa Monica and Malibu.
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood has also gained notoriety as a red-light district for its large amount of prostitution, drag queens and other unusual activity, especially at night.
The best-known section of Sunset Boulevard is probably the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
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 Sunset Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western of Los Angeles County California that stretches from Downtown Los Angeles to Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean between Santa Monica and Malibu.
The best-known section of Sunset Boulevard is the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.
Sunset Boulevard lives large in legend and lore (did I say that?), and this book presents myriad facets of the long and meandering street, one of the most famed in America.
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 Sunset Boulevard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) - the original film starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden.
Sunset Boulevard (2006 film), an anticipated film based on the musical, starring Glenn Close.
Sunset Boulevard, a thoroughfare running north-south through the Sunset District of San Francisco, California.
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 Sunset Boulevard - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The boulevard runs through very rugged terrain and is very winding and treacherous.
It used to be longer, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown, but the portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Interstate 110 was renamed César Chávez Avenue, along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader.
The boulevard has been the subject of a famous movie and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (see the disambiguation link above).
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 Encyclopedia: Hollywood (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hollywood Boulevard is a major tourist attraction in Hollywood.
Due to its fame and identity as a major center of movie studios and movie star, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym to refer to the American motion picture industry in general as well as in Southern California.
Hollywood Boulevard in the 1950s Hollywood Boulevard is an avenue in Hollywood, 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.
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 Hollywood, California
In 1910, because of an ongoing struggle to secure an adequate water supply, the townsmen voted for Hollywood to be annexed to the City of Los Angeles, as the water system of the growing city had opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct and was piping water down from the Owens River in the Owens Valley.
With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue was changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers in the new district changed; 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, became 6400 Hollywood Boulevard; and 100 Cahuenga Boulevard, at Hollywood Boulevard, changed to 1700 Cahuenga Boulevard.
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.
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 Sunset Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The street used to be longer, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown, but the portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Interstate 110 was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue, alongwith Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader.
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood has also gained notoriety for its large amount of prostitution, drag queens and other unusual activity,especially at night.
He then drove a few blocks east and parked at the corner of Curson and Hawthorn Avenues.Police arrested him and the prostitute for lewd conduct in a public place and he was later fined $1,200.
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 Hollywood, California - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With his wife as a constant advisor, he carved out Prospect Avenue (later Hollywood Boulevard) for the main street, lining it and the other wide dirt avenues with pepper trees, and began selling lots.
The sign, located at the top of Mount Lee, is now a registered trademark and cannot be used without the permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which also manages the venerable Walk of Fame.
By the mid-1950s, when television proved a profitable enterprise that was here to stay, movie studios started also being used for the production of programming in that medium, which is still the norm today.
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 Hollywood, California article - Hollywood, California Hollywood (disambiguation) City Los Angeles California U.S.A. - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.
The Charlie Chaplin Studios, on the northeast corner of La Brea and De Longpre Avenues just south of Sunset Boulevard, was built in 1917.
In 1985, the Hollywood Boulevard commercial and entertainment district was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places protecting important buildings and seeing to it that the significance of Hollywood's past would always be a part of its future.
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 Hollywood, California - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The sign, located near the top of Mount Lee, is now a registered trademark and cannot be used without the permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which also manages the venerable Walk of Fame.
Some go home; some stay in Hollywood and join the prostitutes and panhandlers lining its boulevards; others go to Skid Row in Downtown; and some end up in the seamy underside of the entertainment business–the large pornography industry in the San Fernando Valley.
This grim side of Hollywood was portayed in Jackson Brown's song, Boulevard, whose lyrics include reference to a notorious hustler hangout of the 1970s, "Down at the Golden Cup/They set the young ones up/Under the neon lights/Selling day for night", and in the books of Charles Bukowski.
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 Encyclopedia: KCET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Broadcasting on Channel 28 in Los Angeles, the studio is located at 4401 West Sunset Boulevard.
PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States.
Wiktionary has a definition of: Foundation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 fatherhood.ca - Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Bandar Seri Begawan - The opening ceremony for Nazmi Textile Boulevard - located at Hua Ho Mall in Manggis - was yesterday officiated by Acting Minister of Home Affairs cum guest of honour Pehin Dato Paduka Haj i Awang Da...
HOLLYWOOD -- The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, that killed a Lee Street man on Wednesday.
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 Beverly Hills, California - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The area that would one day become Beverly Hills was fertile because of the streams that met there in the rainy months as the waters cascaded down from the canyons that became known as Coldwater and Benedict, creating a cienega (or swamp) at the location of present day Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Drive.
In 1928, the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard between El Camino and Rodeo Drives, part of the old Beverly Hills Speedway, was completed.
At its Santa Monica and Wilshire corner, the Electric Fountain, a constant symphony of form and color at night, was installed, with a small sculpture at the top of a Tongva kneeling in prayer, homage to the heritage of Beverly Hills as a wellspring of fertility and abundance.
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 biology - Beverly Hills, California
James Whitworth bought a 125 acre (0.5 km²) parcel between what became Robertson and La Cienega Boulevards, north of what became Pico Boulevard, and Edison A. Benedict built a home in 1868 at the mouth of the canyon that bears his name.
Green and the new corporation hired a landscape architect, Wilbur D. Cook, who designed a town with large lots for homes and wide curving streets, to be lined with palm, eucalyptus, acacia and other variety of trees.
In early 1920, the Beverly Hills Speedway, a 1.25 mile wood oval track with turns banked 35 degrees, which was built at a cost of $500,000 on the south side of Wilshire Boulevard between Beverly Drive on the east and Lasky Drive on the west in Beverly Hills, was opened.
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 Beverly Hills, California
James Whitworth bought a 125 acre (0.5 km²) parcel between what became Robertson and La Cienega Boulevards, north of what became Pico Boulevard, and Edison A. Benedict built a home in 1868 at the mouth of the canyon that bears his name.
The proposed main street of the town was Los Angeles Avenue, which is today Wilshire Boulevard.
Promotional materials from the period touted the young metropolis as the "center of the next million." Fortunately, human-scale public improvements helped soften the effects of growth.
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 4Reference || Sunset Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sunset Boulevard is a street in Hollywood, California.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Hollywood Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From there the boundary continues north on La Brea, wrapping west around the city of West Hollywood along Fountain Avenue before turning north again on Laurel Canyon Boulevard into the Hollywood Hills.
The eastern boundary follows Vermont Avenue north from Melrose past Hollywood Boulevard to Franklin Avenue.
The commercial, cultural, and transportation center of Hollywood is the area where La Brea Avenue, Highland Avenue, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Vine Street intersect Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard.
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The word "Hollywood" is also colloquially used to refer to the motion picture and television industry in Southern California, the term deriving from the famous community.
The famous Capitol Records building, on Vine Street just north of Hollywood Boulevard, is a recording studio not open to the public, but its unique circular design looks like a stack of old 45s.
The recently constructed Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue, where the historic Hollywood Hotel once stood, has become the new home of the Oscars.
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 Articles - CBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
CBS offices were filled with original works, and Paley carried this belief over into the design elements surrounding his network.
When CBS bought Los Angeles station KNX in 1936 for a west-coast production headquarters, it was at Paley's instigation that architect William Pereira was hired to create a distinctive, modern broadcasting center on Sunset Boulevard.
Similarly, when CBS commissioned Eero Saarinen to design a new corporate center in New York in the 1960s, Paley supervised every aspect of the project, even dictating what could be displayed in employee offices and on desk-tops.
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 Sunset Boulevard - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The street used to be longer, starting near Olivera_Street in the historic section of Downtown, but the easternmost portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Interstate_110 was renamed Cesar_Chavez Avenue, along with Macy Street, in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader.
The best-known sections of Sunset Boulevard is probably the Sunset_Strip in West Hollywood.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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 California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Karelia Software, LLC, or Karelia is a software company with a headquarters in Alameda, California that claims to pioneer the desktop web application market.
Broadcasting on Channel 28, the studio is located at 4401 Sunset Boulevard.
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 aworks :: "new" american classical music: 1929-1946 great depression/ww ii
The drive from Amoeba to Tower in LA on Sunset Boulevard through Hollywood is exciting and colorful (I described it here).
Continuing the disambiguation exericise, I placed the right Sheen in the right TV show (West Wing versus Spin City).
I also knew that Francis Ford Coppola directed Apocalypse Now and his wife Eleanor Coppola the fine documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Film Maker's Apocalypse.
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 GenieLab::Music Harajuku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
:''For other uses of Harajuku, see the disambiguation page Harajuku (原宿) is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan.
It is primarily known as a hangout for teens and contains the department store Laforet, which has many trend-leading brands for young people.
The following tags have been associated with Harajuku:
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 Sunset Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
article at Free Euro Online Encyclopedia
It uses material from the wikipedia article Sunset Boulevard.
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