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Tag Archives: Preservation
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: TCM Classic Film Festival Salutes Warner Bros. Centennial
Highlighting classic film while saluting legendary Warner Bros. Studio’s Centennial, the recently concluded 14th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival offered an entertaining, thoughtful slice of life through its diverse slate of vintage movies and programming. While slimmed down from past … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation, TCM Classic Film Festival
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2178 High Tower Drive, L.A.’s First Community Elevator
The Tower appeared in the March 24, 1939, installment of Nuestro Pueblo by Joseph Seewerker and Charles Owens of the Los Angeles Times. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Both marketing gimmick and necessity, the elevator shaft that … Continue reading
Posted in 1922, Architecture, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Egyptian Theatre, Where Grauman Put the ‘Show’ in Show Business, Turns 100
A postcard showing Sid Grauman and the Egyptian Theater, listed on EBay. On Oct. 18, Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre turned 100 years old. Built and operated by legendary showman Sid Grauman, the spectacular theater introduced major Hollywood premieres and radio broadcasts … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
Tagged 1922, Architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation, Sid Grauman
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mabel Normand Studio Leads the Way
One of the first film studios constructed for use solely by a female performer, the Mabel Normand Studio still stands strong at the triangle intersection of Fountain Avenue, Bates Avenue, and Effie Street in East Hollywood, more than 100 years … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
Tagged Architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – ‘The Loves of Pharaoh’
Photo: Dagny Servaes in “The Loves of Pharaoh.” Credit: American Cinematheque. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. To celebrate the 89th anniversary of the opening of Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre, American Cinematheque screened the 1922 restored Ernst Lubitsch film … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Norman Kerry, Preservationist
Norman Kerry in 1924. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Long before billionaire investor Ron Burkle purchased and restored such historic architectural properties as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis-Brown House, Harold Lloyd’s Greenacres, and Bob Hope’s Palm Springs and … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Beverly Hills, film, Greene and Greene, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
I’m happy to recommend Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir, by my Crime Buddy Nathan Marsak, published in 2020 by Angel City Press. The book is full of historic photos and vintage ephemera, and the text is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Authors, Downtown, Preservation
Tagged Architecture, Books and Authors, Bunker Hill, gifts, Nathan Marsak, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Olvera Street, Salute to Los Angeles’ Spanish Past
A postcard of the Avila Adobe, listed on EBay for $1.89. “A people that has lost touch with its historical past, forgotten its traditions and wasted its heritage is as unfortunate as a man who has lost his memory. Without … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Downtown, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Preservation
Tagged #Olvera Street, Architecture, Christine Sterling, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory/ Hollywood Heights: First Permanent Film Studio Was an Abandoned Roadhouse
When early moving picture companies set down roots in the farming community of Hollywood, they employed simple structures like barns, warehouses, and even an abandoned roadhouse as studios. These early production entities ventured west in 1909 and 1910 to escape … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood’s Long Struggle for a Movie Museum
The Motion Picture Museum and Hall of Fame, about 1932. Photo courtesy of Marc Wanamaker, Bison Archives. On September 30, 2021, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally opens to the public. Long a dream of many in the Hollywood … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Museums, Preservation
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Museums, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cinecon 57 Opens Labor Day Weekend
Sequences from William S. Hart’s “Blue Blazes Rawden” will be shown at Cinecon 57. For those missing attending classic film screenings in person, the 57th Cinecon Classic Film Festival, the granddaddy of American vintage film fests, presents over 20 hours … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Attractions, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #Cinecon, 2021, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1922 film Beyond the Rocks, with Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder, Gertrude Astor, June Elvidge, Mabel Van Buren (which I’ve been reading as “Martin Van Buren” all week, … Continue reading
Posted in 1922, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged film, Gloria Swanson, hollywood, mystery photo, Preservation, Rudolph Valentino
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Saving a Historic Hollywood Home, Thanks to Alice Harrod
The home at 6831 De Longpre Ave., via Google Street View, as shown in 2014. Historic buildings tell as much about people and their eras as they do about architecture and usage. Preserving the actual structure celebrates the past and … Continue reading
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hugo Ballin, L.A. Muralist
Photographs by Larry Harnisch / LADailyMirror.com Mural in the Los Angeles Times Globe Lobby, dated July 19, 1934, by Hugo Ballin Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Hugo Ballin is one of the greatest muralists in Los Angeles … Continue reading
Posted in 1934, Art & Artists, Books and Authors, Brain Trust, Downtown, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Libraries, Mary Mallory, Parks, Photography, Preservation, Religion
Tagged #film, art, Preservation
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery program was “Queen of the Orange Bowl,” which aired Jan. 13, 1960, on the CBS anthology show “U.S. Steel Hour.” With Anne Francis, Johnny Carson, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Elizabeth Wilson and Robert Elston. Adapted for television … Continue reading
Posted in 1960, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo, Preservation, Television
Tagged 1960, Anne Francis, film, hollywood, Johnny Carson, mystery photo, Preservation, Television, UCLA
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Coming Attractions: Nathan Marsak Discusses Bunker Hill With Mary Mallory and Brian Judd
My old Crime Buddy Nathan Marsak has written a book on Bunker Hill in his informed yet freewheeling style and will be appearing Wednesday at 7 p.m. PST in a virtual event hosted by Hollywood Heritage in its “Evening @ … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, books, Coming Attractions, Preservation
Tagged 2020, Bunker Hill, Coming attractions, Mary Mallory, Nathan Marsak, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2178 High Tower Drive, L.A.’s First Community Elevator
The Tower appeared in the March 24, 1939, installment of Nuestro Pueblo by Joseph Seewerker and Charles Owens of the Los Angeles Times. Both marketing gimmick and necessity, the elevator shaft that gave the name High Tower Drive to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1922, Architecture, development, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Knickerbocker Hotel – a Survivor
The Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel in an undated photo from the Security Pacific Collection, housed at the Los Angeles Public Library. A little run-down today, the Knickerbocker Hotel at 1714 Ivar has survived scandal and notoriety to endure as one of … Continue reading
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Tagged #Hotels, Architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Ivar, Mary Mallory, Preservation
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: William Pereira, Entertainment Architect
Elmer Balaban, left, Mary Martin and William L. Pereira, Boxoffice, Aug. 3, 1940. Almost a year to the day after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding to construct a new Peter Zumthor-designed building for the Los Angeles … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation, William L. Pereira
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Newhallywood Film Festival Shines a Light on Silent Films
Over the Presidents Day weekend, Santa Clarita, the county Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum hosted the inaugural Newhallywood Silent Film Festival at the William S. Hart Museum, allowing people of all ages … Continue reading
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Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation, silent movies, William S. Hart
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