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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I happened upon this photograph of Cecil B. DeMille and his wife with their granddaughter.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pic-Cecil-B-...QAAOSwLnBX5EL4
Surprisingly, there appears to be a small farm down below.
a plowed field (crops in a row) is visible to the left of the granddaughter. (the larger field looks like a vineyard)
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As I think we discussed before
e_r, the farmland is actually one of the Japanese nurseries laid out at the base of the Hollywood Hills to take advantage of the micro-climate there. They would have been easily seen from
DeMille's home in Laughlin Park. The nurseries existed until the 1960s but were then platted, together w/ the undeveloped land just to the north, for new homes. The parcel is between Fern Dell & Nottingham, running north to south from Griffith Park down to Los Feliz Blvd.
I noticed this 1940 photograph of one of them and so thought I would post it:
amoba.
One of the families, the Kuromis, poses in front of their business in 1926. Homes on Nottingham Blvd are in the background. Ise Kuromi (the little boy at the center of the picture) opened Ise Automotive on Hillhurst in 1947. It is still in business, run by his sons:
lfia
Long since built out w/ mid-century homes:
google maps
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the house lots sold for $45K-$50K each.
It's pretty boring, not much variation:
google maps
There are 25 photos of the nurseries at
LAPL (search "Japanese nurseries Los Feliz).
The nursery families only leased the land (w/ a 3-year break during Internment). They did not profit from the sale.
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I've been updating that post on the Los Feliz "Murder/Suicide House" too, AKA the Perelman Case. The home at 2475 Glendower was sold last year to Gloria Allred's daughter and her husband. The new links are at the end of
the post.
I am very curious about Bloom and Pollock's plans for the property.
gsv