Hollywood Boulevard began life as a dusty ranch road, which makes its transformation into the world's most famous street all the more improbable. Today more than two thousand brass stars line its pavement, the names sometimes overlapping: a multi-talented soul can earn a star in motion pictures, television, radio, recording and live theatre, all on the same stretch of sidewalk.

The boulevard's older bones survive in surprising places. Grand movie palaces once rose beside radio studios, and you can still duck into the Frolic Room, where old Hollywood traded gossip over late-night drinks, or pass the Capitol Records Tower, a building that helped shape twentieth-century sound. The boulevard remains a working shrine to stardom, complete with cosplayers who expect a tip for photographs.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace this stretch from its ranch-road origins to its radio-era heyday, following the Walk of Fame past the Frolic Room, Capitol Records and the surviving movie palaces to show how Hollywood's golden age still lingers in its restaurants, theatres and bars.