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Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame Hotel
This Hollywood Walk of fame hotel is walking distance to the
Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard
and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves
as an entertainment hall of fame. Designed by Southern Californian
artist Oliver Weismuller, who was hired by the city in 1953 to give
Hollywood a "face lift", the Hollywood Walk of Fame represented
one of a number of improvements the city undertook at the time. It is
embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of
not only human celebrities but also fictional characters honored by the
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for their contributions to the
entertainment industry.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame runs west on Hollywood Boulevard
from Gower Avenue to La Brea Avenue and north to south on Vine Street
between Yucca Street and
Sunset
Boulevard. The Walk of Fame is nearly a three-and-a-half-(3
1/2)-mile (5.6km) round-trip walk.
In July 2008, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced that the
Walk of Fame will undergo a $4.2-million face-lift, another reason
to come visit Hollywood. Seven hundred seventy-eight stars will have to
be replaced because of the wear and tear that they have undergone since
they were first laid down.
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