Jinx
December 27, 2013, 10:31pm
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Just how full is the Hollywood Walk of Fame now? Are some stars bumped to the side streets? What is the approximate length of the Walk of Fame, presently? And, who was the first to receive his/her star on Hollywood Blvd?
SirRay
December 27, 2013, 10:59pm
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The wiki article isn’t too bad , and answers at least some of your questions:
While Joanne Woodward is often singled out as the first to receive a star on the Walk of Fame,[24] in fact there was no “first” recipient; the original stars were installed as a continuous project, with no individual ceremonies. Woodward’s name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558 and inscribed on eight “display” stars that were built while litigation was still holding up permanent construction.[25][26][27] They were installed temporarily on the northwest corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in August 1958 to generate publicity and demonstrate how the Walk would eventually look.[13] The other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence.[13][28] Official groundbreaking took place on February 8, 1960.[16] On March 28, 1960, the first permanent star, director Stanley Kramer’s, was completed on the easternmost end of the new Walk near the intersection of Hollywood and Gower.
Apparently it has been expanded over the years:
In 1984 a fifth category, Live Theatre, was added to permit acknowledgement of contributions from the live performance branch of the entertainment industry, and a second row of stars was created on each sidewalk to alternate with the existing stars
If you do an Earth view with Google Maps, you will notice that there are spots along the route where there are two rows of stars, slightly staggered. (You will also notice that some of the pictures are taken on, or very near to, an Academy Awards ceremony day, but that’s another story.) Based on that, I would say that there is plenty of room for more stars.