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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge
In 1914...Mary Crimmins built 333 S. Windsor.
This is a closer look at 333 from March 2015:
GSV
In 1951, composer Dimitri Tiomkin put in a pool at 333, and he had other work done there in the 1950s:
LADBS |
LAT
We've seen actual photos of the first part of this stretch on NLA before, beginning with
ER's post
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LAT Nov 11, 1914
dimitritiomkin.com
Tiomkin-- composer of many film scores, including
It's a Wonderful Life and
High Noon and a number for Hitchcock (
Shadow of a Doubt, my favorite, among them)-- appears to have bought 333 after it was on the market in the spring of 1950:
LAT May 6, 1950
Gotta have some noir: According to an online biography at
dimitritiomkin.com--which includes a picture labeled 333 S Windsor that does not appear to be the actual house-- "Tiomkin’s wonderful life in America came to an end in 1967 with the death of his wife, Albertina Rasch. Upon returning to his Windsor Square-Hancock Park home in Los Angeles after the funeral, he was attacked and beaten by robbers. Tiomkin put the house up for sale and returned to Europe."
LAT Oct 6, 1967
Windsor Square and the whole area was nearing meltdown in terms of real estate values, with white flight and rising crime after the '65 riots--with the Tate-LaBianca murders not far in the future....