[UphillDonkey]

Originally Posted by riichkay

Well, we have a little bit of a puzzle here. Back on pg. 1927 I logged a post regarding finding writer/TV producer Sidney Sheldon, age 23, at, I thought, 2307 N. Cahuenga BL., in the 1940 census.

The scribblings on the census pages can be somewhat cryptic, maybe I read this wrong:



The enumerator may have been indicating that Sheldon's residence was in the Cahuenga "Block", not "Blvd", and that the building was actually at 2307 N. Highland Ave. But that's right at what is now the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl. Could there have been an apartment court there in 1940?

The other possibility is that Sidney was actually at 2307 N. Caheunga, in the Kerrigan house...maybe whoever owned it at the time was taking in lodgers. Or perhaps the Kerrigan home had been replaced by apts by 1940, which were subsequently replaced by the '80s bldg that is there today.

If you look at Historic Aerials it seems the house was not demolished until sometime between 1980 and 1989.