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Old Posted Apr 29, 2020, 10:33 PM
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Aerial shot of MGM's Circus Maximus set for “Ben-Hur” at La Cienega and Venice Boulev

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You can still see the location of the set at the center of this 1928 image. Comparing it with the current Google Maps view, I'd say it stretched from the Kaiser Permanent Venice Medical Offices towards the intersection of S Crescent Heights Boulevard and Sawyer Street. I sampled a few house prices in the area, and they all came out between $1.3 and $2.1 million - I wonder how much the land cost in 1924?


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OH WOW! You really can see it, can't you? I never heard what they did with the set? Maybe the left it up, like DW Griffin did with his "Intolerance" set over where the Vista Theater now stands.
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