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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Casa La Golondrina Cafe, L.A.’s Oldest...
La Golondrina in Screenland magazine, 1930. News came this week that current owners of historic La Golondrina Cafe could soon be foreclosed on by the city of Los Angeles. La Golondrina is the oldest...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Landmark Vista Theatre Turns 100
The Vista Theatre in 1951, via Water and Power Associates. The Vista Theatre opened October 9, 1923. Built as an upscale house for smaller studio releases, it remains viable even today, as director...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Spooky, Ooky Witch’s House Haunts Beverly...
A sketch of the “The Witch’s House” by Charles Owens from “Nuestro Pueblo,” courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Once upon a time, home design and architecture saluted...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Sign Built and Illuminated...
The Hollywoodland Sign, in a photo published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Dec. 8, 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Originally constructed as a publicity gimmick and branding symbol...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2178 High Tower Drive, L.A.’s First...
The Tower appeared in the March 24, 1939, installment of Nuestro Pueblo by Joseph Seewerker and Charles Owens of the Los Angeles Times. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Both marketing gimmick...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Highbourne Gardens, Bungalows to Apartments
Architect’s rendering of Highbourne Gardens from Architect and Engineer. Real estate development is all about money, expanding and “improving” on property to obtain high financial rewards. HIghbourne...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clara Bow’s 1920s Home for Sale, a Cozy...
Clara Bow’s former rental at 7576 Hollywood Blvd. is on the market for $1.3 million. Hollywood homes can show a star’s character just as much as any candid portrait. Ostentatious or understated, hip...
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Sam ‘FU’ Zell’s Tacky, Trashy Memorabilia Up for Sale
Sam “FU” Zell portrait in an automaton titled Zell 2012. Bidding starts at $500. Sam “FU” Zell was man of unusual tastes. That is, if he had any taste, which he didn’t, based on my experience during...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Frank S. Hoover, Portrait Photographer and...
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Early Hollywood portrait photography developed from the need of stars for portraits to send out looking for roles, and from studios realizing the value of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hotel Brevoort, Bohemians’ Outpost on...
Long an entertaining trope for many a movie and stage play, the boarding house for theatrical performers offered an opportunity to gather together a colorful band of characters while at the same time...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Vice Raid and Early TV in Hollywood’s...
The Hollywood Storage Building as seen in Google Earth. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Originally Los Angeles’ tallest building when opened in 1926, the Hollywood Storage Building at the...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2011. I picked up “The Big Picture,” Melba Levick and Stanley Young’s 1988 book about Los Angeles murals, not realizing what a terribly sad book it would be. As Young...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which...
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Architectural Rambling: Julian Eltinge Home – 1921
The home of Julian Eltinge at 2328 Baxter Street in Silver Lake is barely visible from the street. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Note: While trolling EBay, I found yet another article that...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Longest-Running Movie Studio in Los Angeles
Occidental Studios, photograph by Mary Mallory. Film production in the mid-1910s quickly transformed Hollywood the farming community into the world’s film manufacturing hub. Originally employing...
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July 22, 1947: TV, Jet Engine, Tucker Car on Display at World Inventors Expo
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. First-prize winner at the inventors exposition was Stanley Hiller Jr., who developed a helicopter in which two blades...
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Schaber’s Cafeteria and Einar Petersen
This remarkable postcard postmarked 1941 of Schaber’s Cafeteria at 620 S. Broadway, showing an Einar Petersen mural, has been listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $6.99. Note: This is an encore post from...
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September 15, 1947: On Rosh Hashanah, a Call to Mobilize for Peace
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. The ram’s horn, once a trumpet of war but now a symbol of faith, sounded at sundown yesterday in Los Angeles...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Olvera Street, Salute to Los Angeles’...
A postcard of the Avila Adobe, listed on EBay for $1.89. “A people that has lost touch with its historical past, forgotten its traditions and wasted its heritage is as unfortunate as a man who has...
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