Tag Archives: Harry Chandler

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens March 31, 1923

Posted on March 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

An ad for Hollywoodland, October 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2022. On March 31, 1923, owners of a new hillside development in the Hollywood Hills called Hollywoodland announced the opening of their elaborate new tract in stories … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens March 31, 1923

Posted on April 5, 2022 by lmharnisch

An ad for Hollywoodland, October 1923. On March 31, 1923, owners of a new hillside development in the Hollywood Hills called Hollywoodland announced the opening of their elaborate new tract in stories run in Los Angeles and Hollywood newspapers. For … Continue reading →

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Christmas past

Posted on December 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

Dec. 23, 1936Los Angeles   Photograph by the Los Angeles TimesA 10-piece orchestra of elementary students serenades Times Publisher Harry Chandler. The students also visited Mayor Frank Shaw and school Supt. Frank A. Bouelle. Student musicians included cornetists Wayne Crapser, … Continue reading →

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In the News

Posted on July 15, 2007 by lmharnisch

  July 15, 1957 The painting on the cover of Time speaks to us a bit differently now than it did to the readers of 1957. There is little room for subtlety in an illustration intended to compete on newsstands … Continue reading →

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