Shane Building
This four-story edifice on Hollywood Blvd. was designed in an Art Deco style known as Zigzag Moderne by the architectural firm of Norton and Wallis. From there, details get fuzzy. It was built in 1929 or 1930. It was orignally called the Shane Building or maybe the Shane & Regar (or Reger) Store Building. When the fledgeling Screen Actors Guild moved its national headquarters to the building in 1933, joined by the Screen Writers’ Guild, it was called the Hollywood Center. Sources say it was the Hirshfield Building when Hirshfield Apparel occupied it, but Hirshfield’s calls North Platte, NE, home. It was at one time occupied by Electronics of Hollywood and is now where World of Wonder Productions hangs its hat. We’re going with Shane Building as it is listed as a contributing structure of the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hollywood, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare