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Old Posted Aug 17, 2013, 10:47 PM
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The Henry Ford Museum

Speaking of Wilshire Boulevard...some Wilshire Boulevard houses do not give up actual photographs easily. While working on my story about the Harry Harrington house once at the northeast corner of Wilshire and Gramercy Place, I finally unearthed a shot of silent star Olive Thomas in her new limousine in front of a house, which I realized was 646 South Gramercy, where she lived briefly with her husband, actor Jack Pickford, Mary's bro. It seems that Olive had recently hit a 9-year-old boy when behind the wheel herself...the Times doesn't seem to have covered the accident. Hush-hush. Anyway, as it turned out, the successor to 646 South Gramercy was a Morgan, Walls beauty we've seen here before, first noticed by ER back in 2010:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1392

More on the history of the corner here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html

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