To recognize their potent economic base, the new company hired prestigious architects/contractors Meyer and Holler to design spacious new headquarters to cost $250,000. In 1927, the First National Bank merged with Pacific South West Trust and Savings Bank, forming the Los Angeles First National Trust and Savings Bank. Mary Mallory’s “Hollywoodland: Tales Lost and Found” is available for the Kindle.Ī photo of Allen Vincent with the First National Bank in the background, courtesy of Mary Mallory.

toward the intersection, per John Bengtson on his blog, “Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Film Locations.” Buster Keaton even filmed a scene from his 1921 short “The Goat” looking south from a garage at 1741 N. from 1920, offering properties in the immediate area for sale. Meline operated its Hollywood office here at 6777 Hollywood Blvd. The First National Bank of Hollywood built a branch here, leasing space on its upper floor to the Frank Meline Co. Businesses sprang up around it, two blocks north of Hollywood High School. The Hollywood and Highland intersection served as the western end of Hollywood Boulevard’s business district, anchored by the regal Hotel Hollywood. Operating as bank and office building for decades, the First National Building celebrated Hollywood’s business success and its glorious potential, a economics temple.

Soaring to the skies, displaying confidence in Hollywood’s unlimited future, the First National Building, constructed and opened in 1928, brought Art Deco-Gothic beauty to Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

Hollywood First National Bank Building, Courtesy of Mary Mallory.

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