You can explore Hollywood's historic landmarks by following the historic signs posted around the District. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, along with the Hollywood Entertainment District, installed this historic sign program that marks the location of many of the significant Hollywood landmark structures.

Follow the Historic Signs to uncover some of Hollywood's fascinating history.

#01 Site of Garden Court Apartments 1919
7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Magnificent home of some of early Hollywood’s biggest celebrities, including Louis B. Mayer, Rudolph Valentino and Lillian Gish.

#02 C.C. Brown's Ice Cream
7007 Hollywood Blvd.
Birthplace of the hot fudge sundae.

#03 Chinese Theatre
6925 Hollywood Blvd.
The most famous movie house in the world, built by Sid Grauman.

#04 Site of Hollywood Hotel
Site at NW corner of Hollywood and Highland.
Hollywood’s first famous hotel and gathering place of the stars.

#05 Hollywood First National Bank Building
6777 Hollywood Blvd.
Once the tallest buildings in Los Angeles.

#06 Christie Realty Building
6765-6773 Hollywood Blvd.
Home of the Embassy Club, a popular private club that catered to Hollywood’s elite in the 1920s.

#07 Montmartre Cafe
6753-6763 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s first nightclub where Joan Crawford was discovered.

#08 Musso and Frank Grill
6667 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s oldest continuously operating restaurant.

#09 Baine Building
6605 Hollywood Blvd.
The most elegant Spanish Revival building in the historic district.

#10 Janes House
6541 Hollywood Blvd.
The last remaining Victorian home on Hollywood Blvd., which was a school for children of famous movie personalities.

#11 Hillview Apartments
6531-6535 Hollywood Blvd.
One of the earliest apartment buildings erected to house actors. It was recently renovated to its 1920’s condition, and again houses some of Hollywood’s aspiring actors and actresses.

#12 Warner Pacific Theatre
6423-6445 Hollywood Blvd.
Warner Bros. crown jewel flagship theatre, where Carol Burnett was an usherette in 1951.

#13 Site of Paul DeLongpre Home
Corner of Cahuenga & Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s first tourist attraction housed a famous French artist.

#14 Security Trust and Savings
6381-6385 Hollywood Blvd.
The place where the Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and W.C. Fields banked.

#15 Knickerbocker Hotel
1714 Ivar
Famous hotel from which Queen for a Day was broadcast and where Elvis Presley lived.

#16 Guaranty Building
6331 Hollywood Blvd.
Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille invested in this building that attracted tenants like gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.

#17 The Palace (now Avalon)
1735 Vine St.
The setting of such famous shows as Ken Murray’s Blackout, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Lawrence Welk Show, This is Your Life and The Jerry Lewis Show.

#18 Capitol Records Building
1750 Vine St.
The world’s first circular office building that hosted such artists as the Beatlies, Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys and Nat King Cole.

#19 Pantages Theatre
6233 Hollywood Blvd.
The last great movie palace built in Hollywood that hosted the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards and housed the office of Howard Hughes.

#20 Music Box Revue Theatre
6126 Hollywood Blvd.
One of Hollywood’s oldest theatres, that goes back to the silent era, now named for Henry Fonda.

#21 Taft Building
1680 Vine Street
Hollywood’s first high rise building, built in 1924, once housed the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

#22 Site of the Vine Street Brown Derby
1628 Vine St.
the most famous restaurant of its day was where all the power players hung out, and where Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard.

#23 Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.
Vine St. at Selma
Site of the first feature-length motion picture filmed in Hollywood, and where Paramount Pictures began at the S.E. corner of Selma/Vine.

#24 NBC Radio City
1500 N. Vine St.
Site where NBC’s West Coast headquarters were once located and where many famous radio shows originated, with stars like Bob Hope and Jack Benny.

#25 Site of Wallichs Music City
1501 N. Vine St.
The famous music store that was first to display records in cellophane and first to have demonstration rooms.

#26 TAV Celebrity Theatre
1529-1559 N. Vine St.
The Merv Griffin Show, Jeopardy, The Dating Game and Hollywood Squares all originated here. It wa ABC’s first West Coast Studios.

#27 Vine Street Theatre
1615 Vine Street
Lux Radio Theater and Your Hit Parade were both broadcast from this theater.

#28 Hollywood Plaza Hotel
1637 Vine Street
Doris Day and Jackie Gleason live here. Also housed Clara Bow’s ‘It’ Café.

#29 The Broadway Department Store
1645 Vine Street
The famous department store that was first to introduce women’s slacks.

#30 Owl Drug/Julian Medical
6380-6384 Hollywood Blvd.
The finest example of art deco streamline moderne architecture in the historic district.

#31 Raymond Chandler Square
Hollywood Blvd. at Cahuenga
Corner made famous by Raymond Chandler in his Phillip Marlowe novels.

#32 Studio Building
6554 Hollywood Blvd.
An example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, with Churrigeresque detail

#33 S.H. Kress Department Store
6608 Hollywood Blvd.
Frederick Mellinger established his headquarter for Frederick’s of Hollywood lingerie here.

#34 The Cherokee Building
6646 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s first retail building designed to cater to motorists, with a motor court.

#35 Hollywood Center Building
Hollywood Blvd. at Cherokee
The first home of the Screen Actors Guild and of the Writers Guild of America.

#36 Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Sid Grauman’s first Hollywood movie palace where the first movie premiere was held.

#37 The Pig & Whistle
6714 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s first family restaurant that catered to stars such as Loretta Young.

#38 The Christie Hotel
6724 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood’s first luxury hotel, which even included private baths

#39 Hollywood Theatre
6764 Hollywood Blvd.
The oldest movie house still standing in Hollywood, which opened in 1913.

#40 C.E. Toberman Co. Building
6780 Hollywood Blvd.
Site of first office of Hollywood’s most prolific builder and philanthropist.

#41 Max Factor Building & The Hollywood Museum
1668 Highland Ave.
Original headquarters of the man who pioneered screen make up.

#42 El Capitan Theatre
6834 Hollywood Blvd.
The most lavish of Hollywood’s legitimate theatres, which was first to screen Citizen Kane.

#43 Masonic Temple
6840 Hollywood Blvd.
Neoclassic Revival building where D.W. Griffith’s funeral was held.

#44 Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
7000 Hollywood Blvd.
Site of the first Academy Awards and where Marilyn Monroe did her first film shoot.

#45 Johnny Grant Building
7018-7024 Hollywood Blvd.
Building named in honor of Hollywood’s long-time good will ambassador

#46 Hollywood Professional Building
7046 Hollywood Blvd.
Building in which Ronald Reagan served as Screen Actors Guild President, 1947-1952