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What Flattened the Top of Mt. Lee (of Hollywood Sign Fame)?
Like me, maybe you've wondered why the top of Mt. Lee is so flat?
This article from KCET explains that Mack Sennett almost built a mansion there... http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...sign-fame.html Before / after grading: http://wwww.dkse.net/david/mount_lee.comparison.jpg |
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I never knew about Mack Sennett's plan to build atop what is now known as Mount Lee. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/746/b8D3mn.jpg The article also mentions Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties posing on steam shovels and various other equipment. These amusing photos were posted on NLA in the first year of the thread (unable to find them at the moment) __ By coincidence, I came across this photograph of 'Mt. Hollywood' on ebay yesterday. Is this correct...is it Mt. Hollywood (aka Mt. Lee)? The seller dates it 1900, but to me there appears to have been some grading done already. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...674/kkrjKr.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/TJWstv.jpgebay __ |
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__ Here's a wonderful looking cafe that we haven't seen yet on noirish Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/sTiTII.jpg ebay reverse (it was stuck in an album, but you can still make out some of the details) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...539/hFTXNv.jpg __ |
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...913/7GABt9.jpg
Actually there were two negatives. (I turned them into positives 4you) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/ENnLnU.jpg ebay above: I'm curious about the tall stand-alone smokestack on the left. below: notice the workmen putting in windows on the right. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/07307N.jpg ebay __ |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psd9c3963d.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps0bb04dbd.jpg CD files |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library It's hard to see, but the smokestack was still there in 1972. I can't see it on the 1980 image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mokestack2.jpg Historic Aerials The Baist maps don't show the smokestack, but they do show the Hotel Gilpin between it and Olive. The space between the smokestack and Grand is labeled "Bouton's Sub". Between 1914 and 1921, the Coulter Dry Goods Store appeared on the corner of 7th and Olive - would this have needed a slightly detached smokestack? Speaking of the Pacific Telephone Company Building at 716 S Olive, BifRayRock posted this picture last year. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...elephoneCo.jpg books.google.com |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tHollywood.jpg Google Maps |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps516846aa.jpgHistoric Aerials |
Mystery mounts.
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I haven't found a definitive answer, although Harvey H Wilcox filed a deed naming "Hollywood, California" in 1887, some 36 years before the "Hollywoodland" sign was erected, so the name "Hollywood" would have already been in common usage by 1923. I guess the sign was put up in the most prominent location above the new real estate development. From what I've read, Mount Lee was an "unnamed peak" (Wikipedia) until the transmitter was built. To add to the confusion, the book 'Hollywood, 1940-2008' by Marc Wanamaker has the following misleading caption. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...odlandSign.jpg books.google.com Some further reading on Mount Hollywood: Small Mountain, Big Dreams A History Of Griffith Observatory |
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__ a group of snapshots/1905 and 1906. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/gTAhZG.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/PJBQNe.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/eP8agm.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/EuuMXi.jpg __ |
Have you ever had the urge to wear your apron on your head? -well here's your chance.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/BMfVtN.jpg old file of mine :) __ |
Mount Hollyw
http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/HS-002.jpg H.P./Torrence What might be the purpose of the triangle shape? |
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I haven't found any photos of the Oleander Arms apartment building, in front of the pool in the aerials I would imagine, nor any articles about the building being relocated in 1983 or so...but I found this screen capture, from A Star is Born, of the Oleander Arms. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AzHseRkhVp...bYk/s640/1.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XRrU8-3Nmi...h/DSCN2540.JPG |
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photos of the scale model of the proposed Mack Sennet home. http://hollywoodphotographs.com/phot...HLND-041-5.jpg Below, Architect John Delario pointing at his never to be built creation. http://hollywoodphotographs.com/phot...HLND-041-6.jpg H.P./Torrence |
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