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Encyclopedia > Gower Street (Hollywood)

Gower Street is a street in Hollywood, California, which marks the start of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which runs east to west on Hollywood Boulevard. The road runs north-south through the municipality of Hollywood, and many of the original Hollywood movie studios were based on or near it; the Paramount Pictures lot sits on the corner of Gower Street and Melrose Avenue, and further north, the Sunset-Gower Studios (formerly the Columbia Pictures lot) sit on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower. Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ... Hollywood Boulevard as taken from the Kodak Theatre Hollywood Boulevard is an avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard. ... A movie studio is a company which develops, equips and maintains a controlled environment for the making of a film. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... Melrose Avenue is a popular shopping street stretching from Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills to Hoover Street near Downtown Los Angeles. ... The Columbia Pictures logo, since 1996. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...


In the Warren Zevon song "Desperados Under the Eaves," the street is immortalized as "Gower Avenue." As the protaganist sits in a North Hollywood motel nursing a hangover, the Gentlemen Boys sing the refrain "Look away down Gower Avenue" repeatedly over an orchestral imitation of the noise made by an air conditioner. Zevon on the cover of his 1978 album, Excitable Boy. ... North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, California. ...


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