6671 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California. County/parish: Los Angeles.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 08, 1980. NRIS 80000805.
9 contributing buildings.
Crossroads of the World is an open-air mall on Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles. The mall features a central building designed to resemble an ocean liner surrounded by a small village of cottage-style bungalows. It was designed by Robert V. Derrah, built in 1936, and has been called America's first outdoor shopping mall.
Once a busy shopping center, the Crossroads later became private offices, primarily for the entertainment industry with a variety of music publishers and producers, television and film script writers, film and recording companies, novelists, costume designers, publicists, and casting agencies. The owner is planning a new development surrounding the site.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859053