On Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, just south of Hollywood Boulevard, there's a big newsstand that has been there as long as I can remember…although it used to be bigger than it is now. It's the World Book & News and as of the last time I drove by, it was still there despite a decade or more of news stories that it was closing. Starting in the late sixties, it was a place I sometimes went to buy new comic books and other kinds of magazines. I actually met a few fellow comic book fans there and made some friends.
It was kind of a landmark and so is the alley to the right of it which has been seen in more movies than Michael Caine…and that's a lot of movies. Since its on-screen appearances date back to the days of Chaplin and Keaton, some silent movie scholars are crusading to get the alley declared as some sort of historical site. I'd grant official landmark status to the whole thing but I'll settle for that alley. Read all about it here.