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Originally Posted by HossC
Another single image from Julius Shulman today. It's "Job 2204: George Samaniego, Screen Actors Guild, 1956".
Getty Research Institute
The Screen Actors Guild was at 7750 Sunset Boulevard. The older GSV images show the building as Bug Music.
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I always liked looking at this building going down Sunset Blvd. It always looked a part of the landscape and nicely designed. My memory of it is that it was always painted in what I call an art deco green color, a little darker than it looks in the Bug Music photo. "If memory serves" one must say sometimes.
I was looking for a photo of it as the Screen Actors Guild in color, but I'm having trouble finding one. I did find this interesting one of the building from a sidewalk view if you were walking by. I guess I never "walked" by there!
UCLA Library
The photo must be from 1956 because it's noted in the caption that the building "is brand new, dedicated only last May 25."
And speaking of being dedicated, the SAG-AFTRA website has these photos of it's dedication.
Guild officers, left to right: Treasurer George Chandler, President Walter Pidgeon, George Meany, 2nd Vice President Dana Andrews and 1st Vice President Leon Ames. (Also in attendance were Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson, California Governor Goodwin Knight and Monsignor John Devlin.)
SAG-AFTRA
With Guild President Walter Pidgeon, AFL-CIO President George Meany dedicated the new Screen Actors Guild headquarters at 7750 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.
SAG-AFTRA
And an architectural rendering of the building.
SAG-AFTRA