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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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