HOLLYWOOD: THEN & NOW
Rollin P. Lane house; now The Magic Castle
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7001 FRANKLIN AVENUE, HOLLYWOOD
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The Magic Castle website
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Above is the former residence of Sydney Chaplin, who was the brother of Charlie Chaplin. The house stood just north of, and on the same block as the Chaplin Studios, which still exist but are now the Jim Henson Studios. (LAPL)
The site of the Sydney Chaplin residence as it looks today at the southeast corner of Sunset and La Brea. An improvement?? (Hollywoodland)
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Above is Grauman’s Egyptian Theater mural, in the forecourt just outside the entrance, as it looked in the 1920s.
Above, the restored version as it looks today.
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Hollywood Boulevard looking west at Hudson Avenue in December 1932 (LAPL)
Hollywood Boulvevard looking west at Hudson Avenue in December 2009 (Allan R. Ellenberger)
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Sardi’s restaurant opened in 1932 and was the sister of New York’s Sardi’s and was designed by the world-renowned architect Rudolph Schindler in International style with metal and glass. This was a favorite restaurant of many stars including Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Wallace Beery, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford. Below is it’s current incarnation.
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