Franklin Avenue is a street in Los Angeles. It is the northernmost street in Hollywood, north of Hollywood Boulevard and south of the Hollywood Hills, and later Los Feliz Boulevard.
Franklin Avenue begins as a residential street off Sierra Bonita Avenue. After intersecting with Highland Avenue, Franklin turns into a major east/west thoroughfare for Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills. In Hollywood, Franklin is the southern border of Whitley Heights. It ends in Los Feliz.
The first house in the Hollywood area, built by Tomás Urquidez in 1854, was at the intersection of what would become Franklin Avenue and Outpost Drive. The Magic Castle is located on Franklin Avenue, as is the turreted, former apartment hotel, the Chateau Elysee (now part of the Los Angeles Celebrity Centre of the Church of Scientology). Another is the Shakespeare Bridge, which is near the intersection of Franklin with St. George Street in Los Feliz.
Famous quotes containing the word avenue:
“I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)