Cinema Speculation

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In the late sixties and early seventies, the Tiffany Theater owned certain cultural real estate that made it stand out from the other big cinemas in Hollywood. For one, it wasn’t located on Hollywood Boulevard. With the exception of Pacific’s Cinerama Dome, which sat proudly by itself on the corner of Sunset and Vine, the other big houses all existed on Old Hollywood’s last refuge to the tourists—Hollywood Boulevard.

During the day tourists could still be seen walking down the boulevard, going to the Hollywood Wax Museum, looking down at their feet and reading the names on the Walk of Fame (“Look Marge, Eddie Cantor”). People were drawn to Hollywood Boulevard for its world-famous theatres (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Egyptian, the Paramount, the Pantages, the Vogue). However, once the sun went down and the tourists went back to their Holiday Inn’s, Hollywood Boulevard was taken over by the people of the night and transformed into Hollyweird.

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