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VINE STREET HISTORY
Hollywood and Vine
In the 1920s Hollywood and Vine became known for its concentration of radio and movie related businesses, and the Walk of Fame is centered on the intersection.
It once was the home of several television studios, that included the original Lasky-Paramount Studios, later NBC’s West coast studios; and ABC’s first West coast studios. The Joey Bishop Show was filmed at Vine Street Theater, located at 1313 North Vine St., which is now the Mary Pickford center of motion picture study.
ABC bought the building from CBS around 1967, installed GE color cameras and produced shows like ‘The Joey Bishop Show’, ‘The Dating Game’ and ‘The Newlywed Game. Today the Pickford Center of Motion Picture Study, is housed at this location at Vine and Fountain Avenue.
It was originally built in 1948 as a radio and television studio, at a cost of $3 million. On August 18, 1948 the dedication of the Don Lee-Mutual Broadcasting building and was originally designed specifically with television in mind. It was the original home of Los Angeles Channel 2, which is now KCBS-TV through the 1950s. The FCC first licensed it as an experimental television station W6XAO in June 1931. The station went on the air on December 23, 1931, and by March 1933 was broadcasting programming one hour each day only on Monday through Saturdays.