Pam Hawley Marlin January 2020
Lucille Ball's house on Roxbury Drive.
While living in this house, Lucy used it in
one of her "I Love Lucy" episodes, "The Tour."
The front facade of the house has been completed
changed by owners.
Lucille Ball's original dressing room
entrance at Desilu Gower Studios (1950's-1960's)
and at Paramount Studios in 2019. The steps and
iron railing are still there today.
Lucy and Desi at Desilu Studios and
the same watertank at Paramount in 2019.
The audience entrances to "Our Miss Brooks"
and "I Love Lucy." Called Red Studio today, Lucy and
Desi's Desilu Studios operated from this location
in 1946. Notice one of the metal sign holders
still exists.
The former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
was built in 1921. The hotel had a famous nightclub,
The Cocoanut Grove, that attracted such celebrities
as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Bing Crosby.
More infamously, this hotel was also the site of
Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in June 1968 by
Sirhan Sirhan. After the assassination, the hotel
and surrounding area declined resulting in the building's
demolition in 2005 (there are few remnants,
such as the art deco road entrance
and hotel entrance that still remain). Today the
site is a school.
The entrance to Disneyland being built in 1954.
Disneyland excitement in 2019.
The iconic fire department building in Disneyland
where Walt Disney had an apartment.
The Espresso machine that Walt Disney is posing next to
is still on display at Cafe Orleans in Disneyland.
The home of Robert Disney where Walt Disney first lived
when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1923. A freestanding
garage in the back of the house was converted to a cartoon
studio and is currently owned by the local historical society.
The house is currently surrounded by a fence.
The Spadena or Witch's House was constructed
in 1920 for a silent film studio in Culver City,
California. The house served the cost cutting purpose
of not only being a studio office, but also a dressing room
and film set. When it proved to be too much of a distraction,
it was moved to its present location on Walden Drive in
Beverly Hills around 1926. It is privately owned.
Actress Lana Turner lived in this house in 1958
when her daughter, Cheryl, stabbed and killed Lana's boyfriend,
Johnny Stampanato. Stampanato was a bodyguard for a crime
family and was said to bully Lana, who tried to get out of the
relationship. Cheryl was acquitted of all charges and the
murder was considered justifiable homicide.
Built in 1912, the timeless Beverly Hills Hotel.