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Originally Posted by 1612havenhurstdrive
The original rounded soundstage roof designs at Mack Sennett's Studio City stages and 20th Century Fox's stages differ from the angled ones here - perhaps that's the back of the current Culver Studios as we look north over a natural Ballona Creek with the Tarzan Jungle set of the Back Forty Acres Lot? The lot does nearly back up to the Culver City's Fox Hills. Would any of the other photos in this set work for that lot? If so, rare pictures indeed... -brett
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Excellent 1612HD. I'm so glad you opened this up again. I think you've got something. Fox Hills Dr, just west and parallel to the Fox lot (half of which is now Century City Mall) and Fox Hills Mall (and drive) in Culver City confuse people to this day (I'm not immune). As you say, the subject photos
could all be of the same lot (except that one "Beverly Hills" caption would seem to indicate the Fox lot, which shares a border with Beverly Hills).
A major issue in this little mystery, and just to be extra confusing, the former Forty Acres lot isn't in
the Fox Hills neighborhood of Culver City which is a couple of miles away bordering Ladera Heights. Fox Hills is an office park and condos (no houses), the mall and Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery (containing the distinctive Jolson monument). As far as I know, there is no landscape feature called "Fox Hills", just the neighborhood. The Baldwin Hills is the landscape feature and part of those hills may be seen across Ballona creek from the "Back Forty".
Culver Studios left and the former "Forty Acres" right:
google maps
1965. Check out that water tower on the Culver Studios lot. "Forty Acres" is highlighted:
wiki
Was there ever a studio in Fox Hills?:
google maps
I need to go back and spend a
lot more time with the photos
e_r posted because now I'm more confused than ever.
Thx so much for looking at this mystery.
Apologies to
e_r for (most probably) leading you astray (again), at least about Republic.