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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bimini Baths’ Curing Waters Heal the Soul
A postcard showing the Bimini Baths, courtesy of Mary Mallory. For centuries, those looking for healing of mental or physical ailments visited therapeutic spas and springs at such places as Bath,...
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‘Laura’— The Making of a Film Noir Classic, Part 20
“I stood beside him in the bay window of Laura’s living room. East 62nd Street had yielded to the spirit of carnival…” The 200 block of East 62nd Street, New York, via Google Street View. In case you...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Buster Keaton’s ‘The Italian Villa’
Note: As many of you know, Mary Mallory’s father passed away, so in her absence we’re running one of her most popular posts, from 2012. Buster Keaton seemed to have it all in the mid-1920s. His...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Garden Court Apartments Offer Luxurious...
A postcard of the Garden Court Apartments, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $9.99. For decades, the elegant Garden Court Apartments represented high-class living for both aspiring and successful...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Lookout Mountain Inn Promotes Real Estate
A postcard of Lookout Mountain, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Long before the developers of Hollywoodland offered potential buyers the chance to enjoy the magnificent views at the top of the hill above...
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Georgette Bauerdorf, an Unsolved Murder, Part 11
Georgette Bauerdorf, left, George F. Bauerdorf and Constance Ann “Connie” Bauerdorf Dillon in an undated photo, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Although Georgette Bauerdorf, 20, was living...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: El Portal Theatre Entertains San Fernando...
El Portal Theatre, courtesy of Mary Mallory. For the first couple of decades of the twentieth century, construction of a grand, elaborately decorated motion picture theatre in a small town suggested...
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Black Dahlia Murder House and Dr. George Hodel: Another Good Story Ruined
Sorry, Ashbury Park Press (a Gannett publication), there is nothing to show that anybody was killed at the Sowden House. There is only nonsense about Buster the Wonder Dog reacting to something or...
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On Location in Downtown Los Angeles — 1930
“For the Defense” is one of the old Paramount films now controlled by Universal. As part of its pre-code marathon, TCM recently aired “For the Defense,” a 1930 Paramount film starring William Powell...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ravenswood Apartments Attract the Stylish
Mae West in her boudoir at the Ravenswood, Life magazine, Feb. 19, 1940. Built during the early years of the Great Depression, the luxurious Ravenswood Apartment building at 570 N. Rossmore Ave....
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L.A. Becomes New York: ‘Three on a Match’ (1932)
After I posted a photo of Ann Dvorak’s Duesenberg in the 1932 film “Three on a Match,” John Bengtson noted that the school scenes were filmed at Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill. “Three on a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bryson Apartments ‘The Finest Apartment...
The Bryson Apartments, via Google Street View. Considered by many to be one of the most attractive apartment buildings in Los Angeles, the regal Bryson Apartment Building at 2701 Wilshire Blvd. stands...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Los Angeles Elks’ Temple Highlights...
The Elks Temple in an undated photo. Long a glamorous, outstanding example of Neo-Gothic Architecture and the powerful force of fraternal organizations, Los Angeles’ Elks’ Temple #99 still stands...
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What We’re Reading: The Taft Building by Roger Vincent
In case you don’t follow the Daily Mirror’s Twitter feed, here’s a story we like, by Roger Vincent, who covers commercial real estate for The Times. With great photos by the one and only Gary Friedman.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Assistance League Scouts Film Locations
Motion Picture Magazine, 1925. In the early days of the motion picture industry, no rules and regulations held down the field’s growth and development as companies basically made it up as they went...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Zulu Hut – Studio City’s First...
The Zulu Hut, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Thanks to California’s inventive motion picture industry, eccentric, eye-catching examples of vernacular architecture took off in the 1920s. Though around for...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: La Belle Tour Provides Classic Appeal
6208 Franklin Ave., via Google Street View. Hollywood’s population exploded during the early 1920s as motion picture production soared, thanks to studios moving their production facilities westward...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Chateau des Fleurs Provides Elegant French...
6626 Franklin Ave., via Google Street View. Hollywood, California, exploded in population during the late 1910s and early 1920s with the influx of moving picture companies arriving in town and people...
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Vandalized Church Needs Help
Somewhere in Los Angeles, young men with too much testosterone and spray paint are spending what is apparently their abundant spare time vandalizing an abandoned church. Judging by my Instagram feed,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ambassador Theatre Entertains Hotel’s Guests
The Ambassador Theater, as shown in the Exhibitors Herald, 1921. On February 9, 1919, the Los Angeles Times reported that the California Hotel Company would soon begin construction on a luxurious...
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