| Vine Street | |
| Type: | Street |
| Length Mi: | 2 |
| Length Ref: | [1] |
| Direction A: | South |
| Direction B: | North |
| Terminus A: | Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles[2] |
| Terminus B: | Ivarene Avenue in Los Angeles[3] |
| Location: | Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
| Metro: | Hollywood/Vine |
| Known For: | Hollywood and Vine Hollywood Walk of Fame |
Vine Street is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north–south between Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles and Melrose Avenue. The intersection of Hollywood and Vine being symbolic of Hollywood itself. The intersection has been redeveloped. Three blocks of the Hollywood Walk of Fame lie along this street with names such as John Lennon, Johnny Carson, and John Belushi. South of Melrose Avenue, Vine turns into Rossmore Avenue, a residential Hancock Park thoroughfare that ends at Wilshire Boulevard.
In contrast to other American cities, where it referred to a concentration of radio stores, in Los Angeles, Radio Row was understood in the 1940s and 1950s as the area around the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located. The last radio station to broadcast from a studio on Vine Street, KNX-AM, closed its Vine Street studio in 2005.[4]
The California Laundry was located on the street in 1920s. The Capitol Records Building, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine.[5] Miss Brewster's Millions (1926) starring Bebe Daniels, was shot on Vine Street at Franklin Avenue, near the site that is now the Capitol Records Building.[6] An underground station for the Metro B Line is located one block east at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue. Metro Local line 210 serves Vine Street and Rossmore Avenue.