Musso & Frank Grill
Hollywood’s oldest surviving restaurant, a red-booth institution on Hollywood Boulevard.
Still openRestaurants, hotels, nightclubs, studios, theaters, and vanished addresses where the Hollywood story actually happened.
Hollywood’s oldest surviving restaurant, a red-booth institution on Hollywood Boulevard.
Still openThe 1927 movie palace famous for premieres and the forecourt of handprints and footprints.
Still open as TCL Chinese TheatreA Spanish Colonial Revival hotel across from the Chinese Theatre and site of the first Academy Awards ceremony.
Still openThe castle-like Sunset Boulevard hotel that became a discreet refuge for generations of performers.
Still openThe Vine Street Brown Derby was a power-lunch institution lined with celebrity caricatures.
Closed; historic siteA glamorous Sunset Strip nightclub where movie stars, columnists, and musicians mixed under intense publicity.
Closed; site later became The Comedy StoreA famously theatrical Sunset Strip nightclub with exotic décor and a celebrity-heavy room.
Closed; historic siteA Sunset Strip club whose dance floor, radio broadcasts, and celebrity clientele helped define 1930s nightlife.
Closed; historic siteThe Ambassador Hotel’s tropical-themed nightclub hosted major performers, awards events, and decades of Hollywood social life.
Closed with the Ambassador HotelA Sunset Boulevard pharmacy and soda fountain that became embedded in Hollywood lore as a meeting place for working actors and industry people.
Closed; historic siteA celebrity restaurant built around the cultivated persona of proprietor Michael Romanoff.
Closed; historic siteA red railroad-car-adjacent restaurant and bar that served generations of studio workers and stars.
Still openThe glamorous headquarters and salon complex associated with the makeup company that helped codify screen beauty.
Survives; now Hollywood MuseumThe historic Melrose Avenue lot remains one of the clearest surviving studio-era production sites.
Still an active studio lotThe Burbank lot associated with Warner’s fast-talking crime films, backstage musicals, prestige dramas, and later television.
Still an active studio lotThe Culver City factory behind MGM’s famous roster of stars, musicals, and large-scale productions.
Historic MGM lot; later Sony Pictures StudiosA volunteer-run wartime club where entertainment workers served and performed for Allied servicemembers.
Closed; historic siteA 1926 theater that moved from legitimate stage productions into movie exhibition and later restoration.
Still openAn Art Deco theater near Hollywood and Vine that hosted the Academy Awards during the 1950s.
Still openSid Grauman’s earlier Hollywood Boulevard movie palace, opened before the Chinese Theatre.
Restored and operatingA famously bohemian bungalow complex whose residents included writers, actors, and musicians.
Demolished; historic siteThe Beverly Hills estate of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks became an early symbol of movie-star aristocracy.
Original house demolished; site remains privateAn Art Deco luxury department store designed for the automobile age and patronized by Hollywood clients.
Survives as Southwestern Law SchoolA major Wilshire hotel whose Cocoanut Grove nightclub and awards events made it a Hollywood social center.
Demolished; historic site