Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West"That year Tyrolean hats were being worn a great deal along Hollywood Boulevard and the dwarf’s was a fine specimen."
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West"When she reached LaBrea, she turned right to Hollywood Boulevard and then left along it."
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West"There was nothing to eat in the house and he had to go down to Hollywood Boulevard for food."
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion"Not somewhere on Hollywood Boulevard, not on her way to the freeway, but actually on the freeway."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Then I hung around Schwartz’s, that movie drugstore—Hollywood Boulevard—the beaches: the whole scene...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"CITY OF NIGHT HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD IS THE HEART OF the heartless Hollywood legend."
City of Night
by John Rechy"…someone told me the other day she got run over by this car crossing Hollywood Boulevard, and all I can say is: If shes still cruising the Boulevard, at her age, well, baby, she couldnt expect otherwise…"
City of Night
by John Rechy"Suddenly I was on Hollywood Boulevard. The bright early sun crashes on me, colors burst like tiny rockets. It was Saturday."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Off Hollywood Boulevard—in a pseudo-New-Orleans decor of grillwork and French posters, draped scarlet velvet, dusty winebottles—the gay world of Hollywood finds its head-quarters at the Splendide bar:"
City of Night
by John Rechy"Along winking Hollywood Boulevard."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Or if I hitchhike on this street, I’ll be on Hollywood Boulevard, which will be lighted like a huge electric snake—and there, I’ll meet—..."
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen"One day at the beginning of April I received an invitation to the grand opening of his new business on Hollywood Boulevard, a liquor store whose existence in the Cyclopean eye of the IRS meant that the General had finally conceded to a basic tenet of the American Dream."
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen"The liquor store was on the eastern end of Hollywood Boulevard, far from the camera-popping glamour of the Egyptian and Chinese theaters where the latest movies premiered."
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen"Once a swinging establishment on Hollywood Boulevard for celebrities in the black-and-white era, the Roosevelt was now as unfashionable as a silent film star."
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes"if you couldn't swing down Hollywood Boulevard and know that you belonged;"
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler"ran a dirty book racket in a store on Hollywood Boulevard."
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler"… dispute over the proceeds from a wire service maintained by one Geiger in the back of the bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard."
Golden Days
by Carolyn See"They walked the old streets, Hyperion over to Vermont, stopping at the grocery store at the other “junction”—Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard—"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"I tell her I’m sorry and turn off Hollywood Boulevard because it’s too brightly lit"
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"I drive over to the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and stare at the footprints for a little while."
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis"The club lies on Hollywood Boulevard and Julian parks in back, in an alley, and I walk with him up to the entrance and Julian pushes his way through the line and kids jeer, but Julian ignores them."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"…in a vain attempt to steal Latino clientele from Florentine Gardens on Hollywood Boulevard."
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty"…before Santa Monica, Hollywood, Whittier, and Crenshaw Boulevards come slowly cruising to life."
City of Night
by John Rechy"LATER I WOULD THINK OF AMERICA as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard —jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness."