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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Building...
The Hollywood Chamber of commerce in an undated pamphlet. I n 1925, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce recognized the need for a stylish permanent home in which to promote the business and life of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 100-Year-Old Grocery Stores Still Serve the...
Las Palmas Market, 1259 N. Las Palmas Ave., via Google Street View. While architectural styles have changed over the centuries, the use of buildings has remained virtually unchanged, meaning an older...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: H.N. Zahn Building Pushes L.A.’s Zoning Laws
Ida Lupino promotes Easter in 1934, with the Zahn building in the background. What was intended strictly as a publicity photo promoting young actress Ida Lupino celebrating the Easter season on a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ahoy Mateys! Guests Walk Plank at Pirate’s...
The Pirate’s Den, Radio Television Mirror. During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, colorful and elaborate restaurants and nightclubs filled the scene. In the 1920s, programmatic architecture...
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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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Building...
The Hollywood Chamber of commerce in an undated pamphlet. I n 1925, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce recognized the need for a stylish permanent home in which to promote the business and life of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 100-Year-Old Grocery Stores Still Serve the...
Las Palmas Market, 1259 N. Las Palmas Ave., via Google Street View. While architectural styles have changed over the centuries, the use of buildings has remained virtually unchanged, meaning an older...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: H.N. Zahn Building Pushes L.A.’s Zoning Laws
Ida Lupino promotes Easter in 1934, with the Zahn building in the background. What was intended strictly as a publicity photo promoting young actress Ida Lupino celebrating the Easter season on a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ahoy Mateys! Guests Walk Plank at Pirate’s...
The Pirate’s Den, Radio Television Mirror. During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, colorful and elaborate restaurants and nightclubs filled the scene. In the 1920s, programmatic architecture...
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Mary Mallory/ Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Cafes Then and Now
The Hi-Land Kwik Lunch, 1714 Highland Ave., courtesy of Mary Mallory. Thanks to vintage photograph, films, and ephemera, buildings still live on, even if eventually they were demolished and/or...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: First National Studios, Now Warner Bros.,...
An aerial view of First National Studios in Burbank, Motion Picture News, 1926. First National Studios, now known as Warner Bros. Studios, celebrates its 90th birthday on June 15, 2016. Basic...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland’s First House
2716 Woodhaven Drive as shown in a Studebaker promotional brochure, courtesy of Steve Vaught’s Paradise Leased blog. On March 31, 1923, publicists trumpeted the news that a great sub development...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Bell & Howell Building Then and Now
716 N. La Brea Ave., via Google Street View, from 2014. Simple and elegant, 716 N. La Brea Ave. today remains little changed on the exterior as to how it looked when finished in 1931. It stands as a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Two Chinese Restaurants in Studio City
A matchbook cover for Rickshaw Boy, Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Graphics, films, advertisements, music – all demonstrate values and cultures of the time and place in which they were created. Words,...
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