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AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON
Aimee Semple McPherson was a religious leader with a broad following. She built the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles to hold her theatrical services and was one of the the first women to buy a broadcast...
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HOLLYWOOD HISTORY – THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL
This is what Hollywood looked like at the turn of the 20th century: In 1903 a small place built by H.J. Whitley (Whitley Heights is where the silent film stars lived) called the Hollywood Hotel looked...
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THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL
In its era the Hollywood Hotel was THE place to stay. Valentino brought his new bride there in 1921. This is the hotel register: 1937: 1940: Just months before it was torn down to make way for an...
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ALLA NAZIMOVA – STAR OF THE SILENT SCREEN – OWNER OF THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Alla Nazimova was a silent screen star who lived large in Hollywood. One day in film class we were threading up the projector to screen Garbo’s CAMILLE – when what we saw was this: Fascinating screen...
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THANKSGIVING LOS ANGELES STYLE
1934, turkey shoot at the Elysian Park Police Academy – that’s the first image. The second image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA – as chefs prepared Thanksgiving dinner. I remember once...
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