Love Romance flowers in Hollywood

Hollywood has a romantic geography that belongs to everyone: the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk, two and a half miles of promenade between the buildings and the sand, where couples walk at sunrise, eat at the same handful of places for twenty years running and sit through free evening shows at the beachfront bandshell. It is also, for our purposes, a wall. No vehicle goes on the Broadwalk, which means a romantic delivery to a beachfront building is never a stroll up the promenade with an armful of flowers — the driver comes in from A1A or Surf Road, finds the entrance on the numbered street, and either hands off at a staffed desk or needs the recipient to be home. That distinction is the single most useful thing to know before you order. Buildings with a lobby attendant are the easiest addresses in the city. The older walk-ups a block off the sand, which is where a great many people here actually live, need a unit number and a working mobile number, and the note should say plainly whether a neighbor may accept it. Two small things save an evening here. Addresses on the island side sometimes land a block off in a navigation app, so the unit number and a working phone matter more than the street number does; and many of the older beachfront blocks put their door on the narrow numbered street rather than on Ocean Drive, which is the most common reason a first attempt fails and a second one is needed.