The Cherokee Building

The Cherokee Building was Hollywood’s first drive-in business. It catered specifically to the automobile by having a large motor entrance at the rear of the building, where motorists could park before walking through a Spanish courtyard with a tiled fountain into the rear entrance, rather than using the entrance on Hollywood Blvd. Designed in 1927 by architect Norman W. Alpaugh, the building’s Spanish Colonial Revival details evoke the warmth and romance of Spain. In 1955, the famed Larry Edmunds Book Shop, specializing in books on Hollywood cinema, moved to the building.