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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Studio Club Provides Home For...
The Studio Club in Photoplay, 1917. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. T he advent of the 20th century offered the possibility of more freedom and opportunity for women. For decades, women had...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Christmas House Offers Simple Family Joys...
The Christmas House in Boyle Heights, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Long before the inauguration of Instagram and trying to win social media by...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clock Tower Enters Its Second Century
A landmark both as one of the first buildings in the original Cahuenga Valley area known as Colegrove and for its dramatic appearance looming over the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and...
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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Magic Castle
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Sitting gracefully below Yamashiro restaurant just above Franklin Avenue, the Magic Castle stands as a glorious reminder of the beauty and elegance of old...
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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: Two Chinese Restaurants in Studio City
A matchbook cover for Rickshaw Boy, Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Graphics, films, advertisements, music – all demonstrate values and cultures of the time and place...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Brand Library
“Aerodrome Replacing Country-House Garage,” Illustrated London News, Oct. 29, 1921, Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2012 Unique thematic architectural homes stand out all...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clarence Brown Provides Quick Shave to King...
King Camp Gillette dies at the age of 77 in 1932. He gave architect Wallace Neff free rein to built an expansive ranch in Calabasas, but only lived there for a few years before his death. Tennessean...
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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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