LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD UNITE IN OPENING OF SUNSET BOULEVARD

Big Procession of Vehicles Passes Over New Highway, Which Is One of the Best in the State

Los Angeles and Hollywood united yesterday in celebration of the opening of Sunset boulevard and its adjacent systems. The splendid highway was inspected by nearly 2,000 Los Angeles people, who proceeded to Hollywood in vehicles of every sort, ranging in design from a high-geared automobile to a goat cart.

The boulevard is now practically completed, representing an outlay of about $350,000. When the procession reached the end of the street in Hollywood, a genuine celebration was held, at which prominent men of Hollywood and Los Angeles spoke. The affair was under the auspices of the Hollywood Board of Trade and the Sunset Boulevard Improvement Association.

It was a gala day for Hollywood, for Los Angeles and for the territory intervening. Gen. M. H. Sherman and E. P. Clark of the Los Angeles Pacific railway, H. J. Whitley—known as the champion of Hollywood—were among the notable guests.

May 15, 1904 — Los Angeles Herald