Hollywood Boulevard

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Hollywood Boulevard is an approximately two-thirds mile long street running roughly northeast-southwest through the Hollywood neighborhood of Homewood. It connects Independence Drive (U.S. Highway 31) with U.S. Highway 280. It is one of the few streets connecting Homewood with the adjacent suburb of Mountain Brook. The portion of Hollywood Boulevard around the Highway 280 interchange is actually just within a spur of the Birmingham city limits.

At its western end, Hollywood Boulevard becomes Oxmoor Road, while the eastern end becomes Montevallo Road. All three are actually parts of a road dating back to at least the 1860s which was previously known as Oxmoor-Irondale Road, which connected Oxmoor with Irondale. A Rand McNally road map from the 1920's identifies the section of this road between 18th Street in Homewood and Cahaba Road in Mountain Brook as the Clifton Highway, no doubt named by or for the Clifton Land Company, a property developer in Homewood.

Notable locations (west to east)

• Independence Drive intersection (continues west as Oxmoor Road)
  • Shades Cahaba Elementary School (address is on Independence Drive)
  • 4: American Legion Post 134 (Shades Valley Post)
  • 7: Homewood City Schools office
  • 8: Shades Valley Lodge No. 829
• La Prado Place intersection
• Poinciana Drive intersections
• Malaga Avenue intersection
  • 294: former location of Shades Valley Lutheran Church (1960)
  • 300 block: Union Hill Cemetery
  • 300: former location of Shades Valley Lutheran Church (1955)
• U.S. Highway 280 interchange
  • 350-404: The Hollywood shopping center (2010-)
    • 350: Mexico Lindo, former location of El Toro (1976)
    • 354: former location of Dexter's on Hollywood (1986), ABC Store No. 145 (2010–2020)
    • 358: former location of Over Easy (2010-2022)
    • 404: FirstBank (2021–), former location of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Coffee Shoppe (1977–2006), Beal Bank (2011–)
  • 407: Express Oil Change store #38
  • 408: Asia Rug Company and Relfe-Welden Real Estate
• Continues east as Montevallo Road