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Pets, Publishing, and the Palmer Building: A Piece of Hollywood History |url=https://hollywoodpartnership.com/post/palmer-building |website=hollywoodpartnership.com |date=March 17, 2020 |author=Richard Bence |language=en-US}}</ref> while the latter housed a bank that would become "a power center of the entertainment industry", with clients that included [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[the Three Stooges]], [[Lana Turner]], [[W.C. Fields]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]], and [[Howard Hughes]].<ref name="hmdbsecuritytrust">{{Cite web |title=Security Trust and Savings - Hollywood Historic Site |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=231701 |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |access-date=June 23, 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The intersection also got its own [[movie palace]], the [[Hollywood Pacific Theatre|Warner Theatre]], in 1927.<ref name="NRHP"/>
 
Hollywood and Highland and its surroundings saw even more exotic development. Most notable were its movie palaces: the [[Grauman's Egyptian Theatre|the Egyptian]], built in 1922 and the site of the world's first movie premiere, and [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre|Chinese]], built in 1927 and home to Hollywood's famous [[List of Grauman's Chinese Theatre handprint ceremonies|celebrity handprints and footprints]].<ref name=waterandpower2_2>{{cite web |title=Early Views of Hollywood (1920 +) |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Hollywood_(1920_+)_2_of_12.html |page=2 |publisher=Water and Power Associates |accessdate=July 23, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> Along with these was the [[El Capitan Theatre|El Capitan]] playhouse, which opened in 1926 and would be converted to a movie palace in 1942,<ref name=waterandpower3>{{Cite web |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Hollywood_(1920_+)_3_of_12.html|title = Early Views of Hollywood (1920 +)|publisher=Water and Power Associates|accessdate=July 23, 2024|page=3}}</ref> and the [[Hollywood Masonic Temple|Masonic Temple]], built in 1921 and the second of only two institutional buildings that remain on the Boulevard today. Other notable structures that went up in this area during this time were [[Café Montmartre]] (1922), [[Christie Hotel]] (1922), [[Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel]] (1927), and [[First National Bank Building (Hollywood, California)|Hollywood First National]] (1928). The [[Pig 'n Whistle]] opened in 1927 as well.<ref name="NRHP"/>
 
The 1920s also saw the emergence of Hollywood's third major commercial center at [[Hollywood and Vine]].<ref name="NRHP"/> Commercial development of this intersection began in 1923, when the [[Taft Building (Los Angeles)|Taft Building]] replaced the Hollywood Memorial Church and became the first high-rise office building in [[Los Angeles]], one that housed offices for the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] and every movie studio in the city.<ref name="ampas">{{Cite web |title=The Taft Building |url=https://www.academymuseum.org/en/hollywood-past-and-present/taft-building |publisher=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=July 23, 2024}}</ref><ref name="waterandpower6">{{Cite web |title=Early Los Angeles Historical Buildings (1925 +) |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_LA_Buildings%20(1925%20+)_6_of_8.html |page=6 |publisher=Water and Power Associates |access-date=July 23, 2024}}</ref> The [[Hollywood Plaza Hotel]] (1924), [[Broadway Hollywood Building]] (1928), and [[Equitable Building of Hollywood|Equitable Building]] (1929) would rise soon after, as would this intersection's playhouse, [[Avalon Hollywood|The Hollywood Playhouse]] (1927), and movie palace, [[Hollywood Pantages Theatre|The Pantages]] (1930).<ref name="NRHP"/>
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