Tag: moviestars
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1850 Whitley Avenue
1850 Whitley Avenue What is now the location of The Ardmore, a multi-unit apartment building, which was built in 1962, used to be a 12 bungalow court called Pearl Court which was built in 1916. Architect Lee Campbell, who was responsible for building the Highland Camrose Bungalow Village, was hired by Stephen T. Willis to…
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1747 N. Las Palmas Avenue
1747 North Las Palmas Avenue This 2-story 14 room house was built on the southwest corner of Las Palmas Avenue and Yucca Street in 1913 by owner James W. Dolan by architects Large & LaCasse, where the Dolans lived until Mr. and Mrs. Dolan’s death. Both died a month apart from one another in early…
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1920-1928 N. Highland Avenue
1920-1929 N. Highland Avenue While the French Village used to be located on the northwest corner of North Highland and Cahuenga, on the perimeter of Whitley Heights. On the southwest corner of North Highland and Franklin, was the Highbourne Gardens & Cottages, located at 1920-1962 North Highland Avene. In 1915, Egerton Shore built 22, one…
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1920-1922 Whitley Avenue
1920-1922 Whitley Avenue On Tuesday, April 29, 1919, a fire swept through a residence at 1920 Whitley Avenue, destroying the home, which was built prior to 1913, and all of its contents. The property sat vacant for several years before Lila Jenks purchased the lot and built a triplex in 1921. The building consisted of…
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2071 Grace Avenue
2071 Grace Avenue 2071 Grace Avenue was built in 1936 for journalist Frank Scully. The house started as a one story 5 room house with a detached garage which sits to the right of H.J. Whitley’s former home. The Scully’s moved into the home in 1937 even before the house was finished. Scully used beams…
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6551 Franklin Avenue
6551 Franklin Avenue 6551 Franklin Avenue was built in 1919 by builder Naldo F. Stokes who also built several other homes in the area including: 1905 Grace Avenue (1917), 6555 Franklin Avenue (1919), and 6561 Franklin Avenue (1919). The later two homes were both demolished in 2020. Below an aerial of the area in 1928,…
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Filmed in Whitley Heights
Filmed in Whitley Heights Since the 1920s, several films have been filmed in Whitley Heights, some even on the property of some of the residences. The films, range from dramas to comedies, even a serial movie about Hollywood. The following is a list that starts with the oldest film to the most recent. 1. Fast…
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Clara Bow
Clara Bow Clara Bow (1905-1965) and her “not so direct” connection to Whitley Heights. The once most scandalous star of the 1920s and early 1930s once said: “All the time the flapper is laughing and dancing, there’s a feeling of tragedy underneath, she’s unhappy and disillusioned, and that’s what people sense.” -Clara Bow Hollywood’s “It…
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1927 N. Highland Avenue
1927 N. Highland Avenue In 1918, landscape painter E. Roscoe Schrader (1878-1960) hired architects Mead & Requa from San Diego to build a Spanish Colonial Revival house on North Highland Avenue close to the intersection of Highland Blvd. and Franklin Avenue. Mead & Requa also built the Krotona Court located 2117 Vista Del Mar Avenue…
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2011-2033 N. Highland Avenue
Welcome to Los Nidos Court Between Franklin Avenue and Camrose Drive, North Highland Boulevard used to be lined with single-family residences or duplexes during the 1920s. In 1919, widow Bertha J. Barker decided to build 7 duplexes located at 2011 to 2033 North Highland Boulevard and called the bungalow court “Los Nidos Court”. In 1929,…
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