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Television. 6253 Hollywood Boulevard. (1977-02-28) February 28, 1977. Neil A. Armstrong Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Michael Collins 7/20/69 Apollo XI. Television. South side of the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard. (1973-07-20) July 20, 1973. Television. South side of the 6300 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...
0. Non-fatal injuries. 17. On June 1, 2008, a fire broke out on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood, an American film studio and theme park in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. The fire began when a worker used a blowtorch to warm asphalt shingles that were being applied to a facade.
The Hollywood Stars are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in late 1973 by manager/impresario Kim Fowley. The band was created as a West Coast answer to the New York Dolls during the height of the popularity of the glam rock genre. The band signed with Columbia Records in 1974 and with Arista Records in 1976, releasing one ...
Unknown. The Bel Air Fire was a disaster that began as a brush fire on November 6, 1961, in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles. The fire destroyed 484 homes and burned 6,090 acres (24.6 km 2) [1] At least 200 firemen were injured, with mostly eye injuries due to the smoke and flying embers. [2] The fire was fueled by strong Santa Ana winds.
The Garden of Allah was a famous hotel in West Hollywood, California, United States (then an unincorporated area of Los Angeles which was usually considered a part of Hollywood ), at 8152 Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights and Havenhurst, at the east end of the Sunset Strip . Originally a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) estate called Hayvenhurst, it ...
Hollywood's twin strikes translated into a lost year of production for much of the industry with productions idle since last spring. SAG-AFTRA's strike against major media companies stretched 118 ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in Los Angeles respectively in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of some of the more memorable films set in Los Angeles, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to ...