DESCRIPTION: Clean, single-sided pictorial advertising map of Hollywood and the surrounding area circa 1948 published by Castle's Camera Store, 1529 Vine Street, Hollywood 28, California. Scarce. Price when issued 5 cents.
Castle's Camera Store operated from a small storefront across from the streamline-moderne style NBC Radio City office and studios at the corner of Sunset and Vine streets.
![Castle's Camera Store Hollywood Storefront](/ZoomifyImages/SC_6567/Castles Camera Shop.jpg)
Karl Breneman was brother to radio personality Tom Breneman who operated Tom Breneman's restaurant from a location at 1525 North Vine Street, a few doors from brother Karl's Castle's Camera Shop.
Key landmarks on the map include:
- Don Lee Mutual Broadcasting Studios (1313 North Vine Street opened August 1948)
- Beverly Hills
- Republic Studios
- Grauman's Egyptian Theater
- Hollywood Ball Park
- a television studio
- Earl Carrol's
- Santa Monica, Ocean Park, and Venice piers
- American Legion Stadium
PUBLICATION DATE: 1949
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Pacific Ocean
CONDITION: Good.
 Folds, as issued, now flattened. Clean, solid.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER: 
SIZE: 12
" x
8 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 3
PRICE: $750
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