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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: 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: The Paris Inn Sings for Its Supper
From its beginnings, Los Angeles attracted dreamers and schemers looking to devise new, more successful lives. Early leaders practiced hucksterism and hyperbole to draw Midwesterners and others to the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Constantin Bakalienikoff, 1952 Note: This is an encore post from 2011.Most people today probably haven’t heard of motion picture musical conductor Constantin Bakaleinikoff, but he was instrumental in...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Halifax Apartments at Crossroads of Boxing...
6376 Yucca Ave., via Google Street View. More than 98 years old, the Halifax Apartments at 6376 Yucca Ave. exists due to boxing and the movies. Built by Leach Cross, known as the “boxing dentist,” the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Turns 90
The opening of “King of Kings at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Photo courtesy of Bruce Torrence. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still ready for its close-up, the TCL Chinese Theatre, originally...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Saving a Historic Hollywood Home, Thanks to...
The home at 6831 De Longpre Ave., via Google Street View, as shown in 2014. Historic buildings tell as much about people and their eras as they do about architecture and usage. Preserving the actual...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Sweets for the Jazz Age at Paulais
The exterior of Paulais at Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas, c. 1925. Courtesy of the University of Southern California Libraries and the California Historical Society. The 1920s Jazz Age brought...
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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. Originally Los Angeles’ tallest building when opened in 1926, the Hollywood Storage Building at the southwest corner of Highland Avenue and...
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Mary Mallory/ Hollywood Heights: First Permanent Film Studio Was an Abandoned...
When early moving picture companies set down roots in the farming community of Hollywood, they employed simple structures like barns, warehouses, and even an abandoned roadhouse as studios. These...
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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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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Einar Petersen, Forgotten Artist
Image: Lobby of the New Rosslyn Hotel, showing murals by Einar Petersen. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Fame is an odd thing. An artist might be successful and popular in his lifetime and...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
I’m happy to recommend Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir, by my Crime Buddy Nathan Marsak, published in 2020 by Angel City Press. The book is full of historic photos and vintage...
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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: On the Frontiers of Businesses Run and...
At a time when women faced enormous hurdles and obstacles in the workplace, possessing fewer opportunities and earning lower wages than men, the progressive and woman-owned and operated Averill Morgan...
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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – United Artists Theatre
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Los Angeles and Hollywood have been the Mecca and Medina of movies, where their acolytes came to worship, work and learn in the teens and 1920s. After making...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Hollywood’s Architect | The Paul R....
Courtesy of KCET/PBS SoCal. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. The documentary is online here. Long renowned for its excellent documentaries and intelligent programming, KCET PBS SoCal premieres...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Norman Kerry, Preservationist
Norman Kerry in 1924. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Long before billionaire investor Ron Burkle purchased and restored such historic architectural properties as Frank Lloyd Wright’s...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Bowl Celebrates 100 Years
100 years ago, the Hollywood Bowl hosted its first official summer Symphonies Under the Stars concert, inaugurating a tradition that continues today. Constructed as a way to celebrate the arts in a...
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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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