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While we're in the area
and discussing hilltop signs. (and since I already had these photos uploaded on imageshack
)
Last month when I happened upon this old photo-album on eBay I was surprised that I didn't remember (or never knew about) the rather tasteful Art Deco-esque
'Tower of Legands at Forest Lawn, Glendale.
Here's a closer look at the
Tower of Legends taken in 1929.
eBay
(I've enlarged the photo / I just noticed the car)
It turns out
, the reason I don't remember it is because it was TORN DOWN in 1948 to make way for the
less-than-tasteful Hall of The Crucifixion-Resurrection built in 1951
to house the two Gi-normous paintings on the life of Christ.
I just found this:.."The Tower of Legends was built in 1924 to
disguise a water tower and was torn down on April 2, 1948."
..SDSU
Wait there's more!
The album also included a couple of amazing snapshots taken from behind the Forest Lawn sign.
(or one of the signs, anyway) I don't know how many signs Forest Lawn had back in 1929.
These photgraphs have never been seen before except by the family who owned them.
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