Hollywood Walk of Fame

===Origin===
[[File:Hollywood boulevard from kodak theatre.jpg|thumb|The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard with the [[Dolby Theatre]] in the foreground and the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue]]
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E.M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to "maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world".<ref name="historyof">{{cite web|title=History of the Walk of Fame|work=Hollywood Walk of Fame|publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/pages/history|access-date=May 16, 2011}}</ref> Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, received credit in an independent account.<ref name="LA Magazine">{{cite magazine|last=Rozbrook|first=Roslyn|issue=February 1998|title=The Real Mr. Hollywood|magazine=Los Angeles Magazine|date=February 1998|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V0EAAAAMBAJ&q=hollywood+walk+of+fame+sugarman&pg=PA20|access-date=June 6, 2010
}}</ref> A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and an architectural firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955, the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, and plans were submitted to the [[Los Angeles City Council]].<ref name="latimes.com"/><ref>''[[Lincoln Journal Star]]'', June 27, 2006 – [https://journalstar.com/entertainment/how-do-you-get-a-walk-of-fame-star/article_097a3d51-57e5-55c4-8a51-aca255ac5552.html How do you get a Walk of Fame star? – The Associated Press]</ref><ref>''[[East Bay Times]]'', July 1, 2006 – [https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/01/how-stars-get-stars-on-walk-of-fame/ How stars get stars on Walk of Fame By Associated Press and Sandy Cohen]</ref>

Multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. According to one, the historic [[Hollywood Hotel]], which stood for more than 50 years on Hollywood Boulevard at the site now occupied by the [[Ovation Hollywood|Ovation Hollywood complex]] and the [[Dolby Theatre|Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre]]<ref>Garcia, Courtney (June 11, 2012) [https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-oscars-dolby-idUSBRE85A1MH20120611 "Out with Kodak, in with Dolby at home of Oscars"]. Reuters. Retrieved December 11, 2013.</ref>—displayed stars on its dining room ceiling above the tables favored by its most famous celebrity patrons, and that may have served as an early inspiration.<ref name="latimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hollywood-walk-of-fame6-2010feb06-pictures,0,3869071.photogallery|title=The Hollywood Walk of Fame {{!}} A brief history in photos|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 31, 2010}}</ref> By another account, the stars were "inspired ... by Sugarman's Tropics Restaurant drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars".<ref name="LA Magazine"/><ref>{{cite web|first=Martin|last=Townsend|title=Los Angeles History – Extinct Restaurants & Cafes S-Z|publisher=LATimeMachines.com|url=http://www.latimemachines.com/new_page_43.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020123952/http://www.latimemachines.com/new_page_43.htm|archive-date=October 20, 2006|access-date=June 26, 2010}}<!--ownership only--></ref>

In February 1956, a prototype was unveiled featuring a [[caricature]] of an example honoree ([[John Wayne]], by some accounts<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomson|first=David|title=The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood|publisher=Vintage|year=2006|isbn=0-375-70154-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/149 149]|url=https://archive.org/details/wholeequationhi00thom/page/149}}</ref>) inside a blue star on a brown background.<ref name="historyof"/> However, caricatures proved too expensive and difficult to execute in brass with the technology available at the time; and the brown and blue motif was vetoed by [[Charles E. Toberman]], the legendary real estate developer known as "Mr. Hollywood", because the colors clashed with a new building he was erecting on Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name="historyof"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Gregory Paul|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9W4R_CZtFe8C|title=The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History|publisher=BL Press|isbn=978-0-9776299-0-9|access-date=July 27, 2010}}</ref>