Category Archives: Hollywood Heights

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Vice Raid and Early TV in Hollywood’s Biggest Storehouse

Posted on October 14, 2024 by lmharnisch

The Hollywood Storage Building as seen in Google Earth. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Originally Los Angeles’ tallest building when opened in 1926, the Hollywood Storage Building at the southwest corner of Highland Avenue and Santa Monica … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fiesta de las Flores

Posted on October 7, 2024 by lmharnisch

President William McKinley and First Lady Ida McKinley at La Fiesta de las Flores, 1901. Though founded September 4, 1781 the tiny pueblo of Los Angeles featured little assets to lure large numbers of migrants westward looking to call it … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Helen Holmes, The Railroad Girl

Posted on September 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

In the mid-1910s, action-packed serials starring adventurous heroines thrilled audiences of young women dreaming of independence and agency. At the same time, women in the United States campaigned for the right to vote, eager to shape public policy and take … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Warner Bros. Celebrates Batman Day

Posted on September 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

First appearing in 1939’s Detective Comics #27 on March 30, 1939, Batman has grown into a Super Hero and an iconic emblem of justice employing just his intellect, athletic skill, and technological savvy and superiority. To celebrate the 85th Anniversary … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The First Motion Picture Electrical Parade

Posted on September 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Harold Lloyd’s float in the electrical parade, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Long before the Walt Disney Co. began presenting an electrical parade at its parks, Los Angeles offered electrical parades as part … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Myrtle Gonzalez – Early Latina Movie Star

Posted on September 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

An autographed photo of Myrtle Gonzalez by the Martel-Carruthers studio, inscribed to Jean Herscholt, listed on EBay at $250 Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Mostly forgotten today because of her untimely death in the 1918 influenza epidemic, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: May Brotherton, Queen of Film Editing

Posted on September 9, 2024 by lmharnisch

May Brotherton in the Balboa Day Book, 1916. Women were integral to motion picture production from its very beginning. Working behind the scenes, they dominated the dirty work of cutting and assembly of film and negative for decades. Quick and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Rah! Rah! Hollywood Celebrates Pennants

Posted on September 2, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Hollywood has always been creative in promoting its films and personalities to the public. Employing posters, lobby cards, window cards and photographs, silent film production companies hyped upcoming films. With the success … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hotel Brevoort, Bohemians’ Outpost on Lexington

Posted on August 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

Long an entertaining trope for many a movie and stage play, the boarding house for theatrical performers offered an opportunity to gather together a colorful band of characters while at the same time providing them a supportive haven and family … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Eleanor Fried Darling, Jill of All Trades

Posted on August 20, 2024 by lmharnisch

W. Scott Darling and Eleanor Fried Darling, Film Daily, 1926. Women made the silent film industry the giant success it became during the 1920s. Thanks to their example in uplifting filmmaking, movie attendance skyrocketed among women. To maintain supply for … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Smokey Bear Turns 80

Posted on August 13, 2024 by lmharnisch

As climate change worsens around the world, so do the outbreak of wildfires. Just in the last few years, such countries as Canada, Greece, and Australia have experienced devastating fires, as has such U. S. states as Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Busch Gardens and Hogan’s Aristocratic Dream

Posted on August 5, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Filmmakers have always loved shooting around the Los Angeles area because so many diverse locations offer tantalizing story possibilities at a fraction of the cost of traveling around the United States or … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Upton Sinclair’s EPIC Race for Governor vs. the Studios and News Media

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

Epic Answers: How to End Poverty in California. 90 years ago, author and former Socialist Upton Sinclair entered the race for Governor of California as a Democrat, hoping to better the lives of common people and the unemployed. Upset at … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora

Posted on July 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which has experienced three diverse lives, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Drag Comes to Hollywood at B.B.B.’s Cellar

Posted on July 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

Long before Silver Lake’s Black Cat Cafe or the first LBGT parade down Hollywood Boulevard in the 1960s, Hollywood highlighted female impersonators and the gay community in a popular, energetic nightclub called B. B. B.’s Cellar and led by host … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Douglas Fairbanks, Author

Posted on July 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

Douglas Fairbanks: “Teaching his dog to smile.” Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Douglas Fairbanks exploded onto the filmmaking scene in 1915 after a successful career on Broadway as a dashing leading man. His jaunty joie de vivre … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Emma Lazarus’ ‘The New Colossus’ Calls to All Immigrants

Posted on July 1, 2024 by lmharnisch

Construction of the Statue of Liberty, artwork by John Durkin, Harper’s Weekly, Jan. 19, 1884. Note: This is an encore post from 2018. Written in 1883 to help raise money for building the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ Promotes American Values

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

“Don’t Be a Sucker” is on YouTube. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still as relevant today as when it was first produced over 70 years ago, the United States Army Signal Corps’ short “Don’t Be a Sucker” … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly into a brave new … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The Key to Hollywood’ Promotes Tourism

Posted on June 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Sightseeing has long been the lifeblood of Hollywood and Los Angeles. Long before Gray Line Tours or even any of its poorer knockoffs came along, companies offered sightseeing around these areas, particularly … Continue reading →

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