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7.5 2.2 Hollywood,* Hollywood Blvd. and Cahuenga Ave., bank on
GARAGES— Hollywood Mission Garage, 1728 Highland Ave., near Holly-
wood Blvd.
left. Keep ahead with trolley on Hollywood Blvd. Trolley
leaves to left 8.4.
8.9 1.4 Gardner St.; turn left.
9.1 0.2 Sunset Blvd.; meeting trolley, turn right.
9.8 0.7 Irregular 4-corners turn right onto Laurel Canyon Road.
;
11.2 1.4 Fork, Bungalow Inn in center; bear left upgrade.
12.0 0.8 Fork, large sign in center; bear right upgrade, following wind-
ing road along side of mountain to summit 13.1 at Lookout Inn.
Bear slightly left downgrade and continue over ridge to Look-
out Mountain. Beautiful view from this point of the city of
Los Angeles and the shore of Pacific Ocean in the distance.
Proceed around Lookout Point.
13.8 1.8 Fork; keep right down narrow winding grade.
15.0 1.2 End of road, Bungalow Inn on left; turn sharp left. Follow
winding road up Laurel canyon to summit 15.7, now descend-
ing winding grade to
17.1 2.1 End of road ; turn right.
17.9 0.8 Prominent 4-corners; free picnic park on right; turn right
onto State highway.
Left is Route 391 to Santa Barbara. t
Follow winding road along base of hills, joining trolley from
left 19.5. Avoid road to left 19.9, which leads to Universal
City and Lankershim. Keep ahead, shortly descending wind-
ing road thru Cahuenga pass.
22.3 4.4 Left-hand road; turn left across trolley onto Cahuenga Ave.
23.0 0.7 5-corners; bear slightly left, still on Cahuenga Ave.
£3.3 0.3 Hollywood,* Hollywood Blvd. and Cahuenga Ave., bank on
right.
Turn left along trolley onto Hollywood Blvd.
25.5 2.2 5-corners, intersection of Vermont Ave.; bear right with trol-
ley—still on Hollywood Blvd. Same thorofare becomes Sunset
Blvd. 25.8.
29.2 3.7 5-corners, hospital on near left; bear left—still on Sunset
Blvd. Avoid right-hand road 29.7 where trolley leaves to right
thru tunnel.
29.9 0.7 5-corners; turn right onto N. Broadway, going thru tunnel
just beyond. Join trolley 30.1 at court house and hall of
records. *
31.1 1.2 LOS ANGELES, 7th. St. & Broadway.
Route 529—Los Angeles-Griffith Park, Cal., and Return
27.9 m.
Reverse Route Not Compiled.
Via Sunset Blvd., Griffith Park Drive, returning via Vermont Ave. and Wilshire
Blvd. Macadam paving and gravel roads the entire distance.
Owing to the great popularity of the park drive strict regulations as to speed are
posted, and the motorist is urged to heed them.
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Total Between For this and other exits see City Map, page 426.
Mileage Points
0.0 0.0 LOS ANGELES, Broadway & 7th St. Go north on Broadway.
Pass city hall on right 0.6. Pass hall of records and court
house 1.0, going thru tunnel just beyond.
•Hollywood, Cal. (pop. 15,000, alt. 1,500 ft.), a streets are planted with peppers and acacias
populous suburb of Los Angeles, incorporated and the flame tree brought here from the An-
within the city, is situated among the Ca- tipodes. Roadways are lined with glossy mag-
huenga foothills. Against the hillside the nolias and grounds are brilliant with poinset-
turrets of San Souci castle and Glengarry tia and roses. Strawberries are ripe here
stand out prominently. These are both the “from Christmas until Christams.” Paul de
possessions of a wealthy owner who has filled Longpre, the world’s greatest painter of flow-
them with tapestries, pictures, carvings and ers, lived here until his death in 1911. In the
rare glass. Hollywood is in the vicinity of country near Hollywood forty film-play pro-
the oil belt but is fragrant with flowers. Its ducing companies have extensive plants.