Parsons, Louella, 131, 138, 179, 195, 226, 249, 295
Parva-Sed-Apta Apartments, 142, 200
Pass Road, 8, 10, 23, 53
Pass School, 37
Passion Play, 112
Patchwork Girl of Oz, The (L. Frank Baum), 72
Payton, Barbara, 326
Peanut Butter Conspiracy, 323
Peanut Vendors, The, 234
Pearce, Al, 286
Penman, Daniel, 26
Penner, Joe, 257
Penney, J.C., 212. See also J.C. Penney
People Are Funny, 285
Perelman, S.J., 200
Perino, Alex, 180
Perry’s Brass Rail, 195
Perry’s Dance Studio, 234, 296
Peter the Hermit (Peter Howard), 191, 195
Petroushka Café, 138
Peyton Hall, 333
Philbin, Regis, 319
Philco Radio Time, 295
Phillips, MacKenzie, 355
Photoplay Magazine, 168, 170, 196, 249
Photoplayers Club, 73
Piccadilly, 124
Pick/Vanoff (Sunset Gower Studios), 328
Pickfair, 133
Pickford, Mary, 58, 85, 89, 90, 95, 98, 107, 119, 129, 133, 137, 141, 144, 150, 152, 158, 180, 191, 279
Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, 150, 18
Pickwick Books, 238, 329, 357
Pied Pipers, 267
Pig’n’Whistle Café, 166, 167, 261, 277, 377, 379
Pilgrimage Play, 242, 329
Pilgrimage Theatre, 84, 186, 269, 329 See also
John Anson Ford
Pinocchio, 22
Pioneer Broadcasters, 317, 386
Pistol Packin’ Mama, 267
Pitt, Brad, 371
Pitts, Zasu, 258
Pix Theater, 336. See also Music Box and Henry Fonda Theater
Players Restaurant, 282
Playmates, 321
Plaza Hotel, 141, 142, 166, 177, 259, 273, 286. See also Hollywood Plaza Hotel
Plaza Pig, 166
Polar Palace, 231
Porter, Cole, 282
Portrait of a Lady, 303
Postal Telegraph, 131
Potter, Peter, 286
Powell, Dick, 188, 231, 236, 249
Powell, Eleanor, 234
Powell, William, 180, 211, 227, 256
Power, Tyrone, Jr., 188
Power, Tyrone, Sr., 188
Prabhavananda, Swami, 243
Presley, Elvis, 166, 296, 321, 369
Pretty Woman, 346
Price, Highland, 27
Prima, Louis, 231
Procter and Gamble, 358, 364
Project Area Committee (PAC), 341, 342, 361, 365, 372, 383
Prospect Avenue, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, 36, 38, 54, 62. See also Hollywood Boulevard
Prowse, Juliet, 327
Purviance, Edna, 108
Pyne, Joe, 319
Queen for a Day, 289
Queer People, 191
Radio Actors Exchange (Rate Boards), 260
Radio Room, The, 264, 265
Raft, George, 155, 190, 199
Rainbow Dance Studio, 370
Raisin in the Sun, The, 303
Ralph’s Markets, 347
Ramakrishna Order of India, 243
Rambova, Natacha (Winifred Shaughnessy), 124, 130, 136, 139
Ranch Market, 318
Rand, Sally, 265
Randall Motor Club Building, 333
Rapp, J.B., 13, 17
Rappe, Virginia, 107
Rate Boards, 261. See Radio Actors Exchange
Rathbone, Basil, 149, 188
Rawls, Lou, 320
Ray, Aldo, 327
Ray, Charles, 96, 197
Raye, Martha, 231, 261
Reagan, Ronald, 166, 209, 236, 263, 281, 335, 340
Reap the Wild Wind, 270
Rector Hotel, 142, 143, 346, 347
Red Cross, 90
Red Skelton Show, 262
Reeves, Keanu, 361
Regent Hotel, 141. See also Hastings Hotel, 141, 143, 188, 323
Reid, Wally, 87, 96, 120, 246
Reinhardt, Max, 250
Reliance Film Company, 67
Renaissance Hotel, 374
Republic Studios, 236, 239
Revier, Harry, 67
Rexall Drugstore, 207, 209
Reynolds, Debbie, 327, 370, 374
Rhythm Boys, 180
Rhythm on the Range, 241
Rich, Sanford, 32, 45, 53
Richards, George, 281, 282
Rickles, Don, 302
Riddle, Nelson, 301
Righteous Brothers, 321
Rimes, LeAnn, 374
Rings Music Store, 266
Rin-Tin-Tin, 129, 131, 150
Riordan, Richard (L.A. City Mayor), 349, 356, 366, 367, 368, 370
Riots (1992), 348
Ripley’s Believe it or Not “Odditorium”, 342
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 176
RCA Records, 315, 368
RKO Studio, 247, 248, 299
Roach, Hal, 62, 132, 141, 188, 288
Robards, Jason, 148, 310
Roberti, David (California State Senator), 343, 365
Roberts, O.E., 13, 55
Robertson-Cole Studio, 87
Robertson’s Department Store, 117, 124, 170, 174, 312
Robin Hood, 119, 120
Robinson, Edward G., 335
Rogers, Ginger, 188, 209, 273, 282
Romero, Cesar, 188, 303
Room at the Top, 329
Rooney, Mickey, 243, 286
Roos Brothers, 214, 357
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 191, 285
Roosevelt Hotel, See Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Rose Garden Idea, The, 177
Rose, Stanley, 196, 235, 236, 238
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 279
Rugrats, 360
Rule, Elton, 319
Runyon Canyon, 314, 359
Runyon, Carmen, 168
Russell, Jane, 298, 302
Russell, Rosalind, 209
Russian Artcraft Club, 227
Russian Eagle, 229, 230
Sackett Hotel, 18, 19, 24, 37, 44, 45, 60
Sackett, Horace, 19
Salome, Where She Danced, 273
Salvation, Army, The, 361
Sam Kress’s Cafe, 132
Sam Spade, 252
Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, 331
San Fernando mission, 5
San Patrizio, 168, 284, 313–314
San Pedro, 9, 364
Sans Souci, 64, 174
Sanders, George, 249
Santa Claus Lane, 155, 277, 374
Santa Fe Railroad, 191
Santa Monica Boulevard, 9
Santa Monica Mountains, 3
Sardi’s, 205, 229, 272, 302, 325
Saroyan, William, 235, 238
Sartov, Henrik, 92
Save Hollywood Our Town (SHOT), 336, 337
Scharfe, Walter, 328, 341
Schenck, Joseph, 98, 107, 129, 137, 139, 141, 144, 149, 150, 174, 236, 242, 281, 298
Schenck, Nicholas, 149, 236
Schindler, Rudolf, 205
Schlesinger, Leon, 190
Schloesser, Dr. Alfred (Castle), 59, 64, 69, 77, 83, 90, 168, 174, 198
Schoenberg, Arnold, 235
School of the Open Gate, 83
Schulberg Budd, 190
Schulberg, B.P., 190
Schulbnerg, Ad, 190, 227, 235
Schwab Building, 371, 378
Schwab’s Men’s Store, 135, 378
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 199, 229, 236, 241, 281, 342, 349
Screen Guild Theatre, 249, 258
Screen Industries Club, 140
Screen Playwrights, 236
Screen Secrets, 185
Screen Writers Guild (see also Writers Guild), 199, 236, 238
Screenland Magazine, 107
Scrivener’s, 309
Seacrest, Ryan, 374
Security Trust and
Saving, 105, 184, 246, 331, 351
Security Trust, 154
See How the Movies Are Made, 127
See, Carolyn, 329
Seeds, The (rock band), 321
See’s Candy Store, 321
Selig, Colonel, 62, 68
Selig Polyscope Company, 57
Selma Avenue, 16
Selznick, David O., 180, 188, 222, 284
Selznick, Lewis, 190
Selznick, Myron, 188, 190, 196, 214
Sennes, Frank, 294
Sennett, Mack, 68, 88, 90, 227, 298, 302
Seven Seas, 233, 234
Seward, William, 8
Shaw, Artie, 240
Shawn, Ted, 83, 124
Shea, Joe, 381
Shearer, Norma, 162, 214
Shearing, George, 302
Sheets, Millard, 317
Sheik The, 110
Shelly’s Mann Hole, 329
Shelton Apartments, 144, 340
Sherman, Moses, 28, 29, 36, 52, 53
Shore, Dinah, 276, 295
Short, Bobby, 264, 376
Short, Elizabeth, 302
Shrine Auditorium, 299
Shubert Theater, 374
Sidney, Sylvia, 188
Siegel, Benjamin (Bugsy), 236
Silbert, Edward, 202
Silver Theatre, 258
Silvers, Matt, 215
Sinatra, Frank, 274, 275, 276, 295, 296, 301, 310
Sinclair, Upton, 195
Six Mile House, 18, 19 See also Casa Cahuenga
Skelton, Red, 262, 290
Skippy in Hollywood, 258
Slavitch, Nick, 261
Slim Gordon’s, 282
Smashing Pumpkins, 376
Smedra, Ira, 347
Smith, Anna Nicole, 372
Smith, Kate, 257
Snow White Café, 216
Somborn, Herbert, 98, 179
Son of Sheik, The, 144
Sondergaard, 280
Song O’ My Heart, 168
Song of Bernadette, The, 235
Sound Machine, The, 323
Sousa, John Phillip, 147
Southern Pacific Railroad, 9
Spada, James, 275
Spears, Britney, 378
Spelling Productions, 349
Spelling, Aaron, 328
Spider Kelly’s, 231
Spielberg, Steven, 358
Squaw Man, 67, 302
St. Denis, Ruth, 83, 124
St. Francis Hotel, 142, 323, 352, 382
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 134, 311
Stanley Warner, “Home of Cinerama”, 298
Stanwyck, Barbara, 188, 227, 229, 250, 262, 282
Staples, 360
Star Shoes, 377, 380
Starbright Pediatric Network, 358
Stardust, 180
Stardust Ballroom, 291, 360, 361
Stars Over Hollywood, 257
Stella Adler Academy, 344
Stern & Goodman Mercantile Company, 48
Stern, Eugene, 141
Stern, Jacob, 46, 67, 92, 103, 104, 141, 141, 147, 168, 206
Stern, Jacob Mrs., 49
Stevens, Connie, 355
Stevenson, Christine Wetherill, 84, 112
Stevenson, George, 28, 70, 119
Stevenson, Peggy (L.A. City Councilwoman), 318, 329
Stewart, James, 207, 221, 273
Stone, Cliffie, 286
Stone, Fred, 221
Storer House (Frank Lloyd Wright), 98
Stravinsky, Igor, 235
Streets of Paris, The, 264
Streisand, Barbra, 364
Strictly Dishonorable, 177
Strip Polka, 267
Stromberg, William, 214
Strong, Wheat, Riggs & Barnett, 147, Strothers Mortuary, 186, 310, 358, 359
Studio Club, 89, 361, 362
Studio Directory, 184
Studio Theatre, 202, 203, 204
Sturges, Preston, 177, 211, 284
Sturtevant, Edmond, 30
Sunset Bowling Center, 233
Sunset Gower Studios, 328, 385
Sunset Inn, 124
Sunset Room, 377
Swanson, Gloria, 78, 89, 95, 96, 98, 107, 130, 179, 180, 216, 258, 296
Swing Club, The (AKA Club 17), 234
Swingers, 371
Sycamore Canyon, 4
Sydney, Sylvia, 190
Symphonies Under the Stars, 112
Taft, A.Z. Jr., 103, 104, 135, 141, 153, 154, 293
Taft Building, 135, 185, 186, 188, 190, 199, 259, 285, 286, 298, 382
Taft, Alfred Z., 26, 45, 293, 294
Taft, Gretrude, 26
Taft, Mary, 26, 242, 293
Talmadge, Constance, 96
Talmadge, Norma, 96, 98, 107, 137, 139, 180, 242
Tandy, Jessica
Tanguay, Eva, 214, 215
Tarzan and the Lion Man, 190
Tarzan the Untamed, 98
Tatum, Art, 264
Taylor, Elizabeth, 299
Taylor, Robert, 188, 227, 250, 262, 282
Taylor, William Desmond, 108
Tearle, Conway, 226
Technicolor Laboratories, 239, 241
Teenage Fair, 322
Television Academy, 291, 360, Television City, 300, 302, 386
Temple Beth-el, 124, Temple Israel of Hollywood, 154, 310
Temple, Shirley, 219, 226, Ten Commandments, The, 127, 128, Thalberg, Irving, 89, 99, 161
Thai cuisine, 325
Thai Town, 363
Theosophists, 60, 83, 168
Thief of Bagdad, 128
This is Your Life, 296, 302
Thomas, Bob, 280
Thoren, 67
Three Stooges, 127
Thrifty Drugs, 310
Three Weeks (Elinor Glyn), 110
Tick Tock Restaurant, 216, 337
Tijuana Brass, 320
Tik-Tok Man of Oz, The, 65, 71
Timberlake, Justin, 378
Time Magazine, 272
Tin Woodsman of Oz, The, 93
Tiny Naylor’s, 309, 333
Toad-in-the-Hole, 188, Toberman Hall, 60, 89, 90, 113, 124
Toberman, Charles E., 46, 60, 69, 70, 72, 75, 77, 78, 81, 93, 100, 103, 117, 120, 124, 132, 137, 138, 144, 147, 148, 151, 155, 174, 186, 208, 211, 269, 270, 272, 304–305, 311, 318, 325, 331, 343, 362, 387
Toberman, John, 46, 60
Todd, Mike, 298
Todd, Thelma, 229
Toluca Lake, 227
Topsy and Eva, 157
Tortilla House, 323
Tracey and Hay, the Dancing Jewels of America, 370
Tracy, Spencer, 250
Travis, Merle, 286
Triangle Studio (D.W. Griffith), 87
Trizec-Hahn, 366, 367, 373, 374, 375, 376
Trocadero, 229, 231 See also La Boheme
Tropics, The, 233
Troupers, 140
Trumbo, Dalton, 235
Truth or Consequences, 285
Tucker, Sophie, 215, 265
Turk, Stella, 327
Turner, Lana, 209, 231, 240, 241, 266
Tynan, Roxanne, 381
U.S.-Mexican Peace Treaty, 6
Ullman, George, 334, 341
Ultra Lounge, 382
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 157
Union Pacific Railroad, 191
United Artists, 150, 339
United Servicemen’s Organization (USO), 269, 310
United Studios, 149
Universal City, 80 See also Laemmle, Carl
Universal Studio, 62, 64, 71, 87, 150, 227, 238, 273, 285. See also Laemmle, Carl
Universal Studio Tours, 324
UPA, 290
Urban Land Institute, 373
Urquidez, Tomás, 7. See also Casa Don Tomás
USC School of Cinema, 370
USO (United Servicemen’s Organization), 269
Valdez, José, 10
Valdez, Teofilo, 10
Valentino, Rudolph, 74, 88, 96, 97, 108, 110, 127, 128, 130, 136, 139, 144,
145, 293
Vallee, Rudy, 257, 272, 286
Vampira, 310, See also Nurmi, Maila
Van de Kamp’s store and café, 216, 378
Van Doren, Mamie, 365
Vanities, 196
Variety, 185, 305, 337, 339
Vasquez, Tiburio, 10
Vedanta Society, 243
Velez, Lupe, 188
Velvet Rope, 321
Verdon, Gwen, 265
Vern Alm Service Station, 216, 217
Vesuvius, 282, 381
Vidor, King, 77, 147
Villa Capri, 301
Villa Carlotta, 131
Vine Street Improvement Association, 103, 117, 134, 136, 381
Vine Street Theatre, 147, 148, 184, 250. See also Wilke’s Vine Street Theater and CBS Radio Playhouse
Vinyl (nightclub), 379
Vista Del Mar, 12, 34
Vista Theatre, 71, 121, 326. See also Bard’s Playhouse
Vitagraph, 62, 149
Vitaphone, 150
Vogue Magazine, 371
Vogue Theatre, 205, 216, 223, 339
Von Sternberg, Joseph, 89, 129, 229
Von Stroheim, Erich, 89, 92, 284
W6XAO-TV, Channel 1, 287, 288
Wachs, Joel (L.A. City Councilman), 352
Wakeman, Caroline, 25, 29, 45, 49
Wakeman Ranch, 25
Walk of Fame, 311, 312, 344, 349, 350, 356, 363, 364, 385
Wallich’s Music City see Music City
Wallichs, Glenn, 249, 266, 267
Wallis, Hal, 195
Walsh, John, 383
Walt Disney Company, 328, 342, 377
Wampas Baby Stars, 122, 170
Wampas Club Orchestra, 135
Wampas Frolics, 122
Wanger, Walter, 273, 284
Ward, Baxter (L.A, County Supervisor), 343, 344
Warner Brothers Cartoons, 285
Warner Brothers Studio (Bronson Avenue and Sunset Boulevard), 149, 231
Warner Brothers Studio (Burbank), 149, 227, 268, 281, 320, 324
Warner Brothers, 149, 153, 159, 166, 214, 246, 275
Warner, Harry, 159, 236
Warner, Jack, 107, 119, 129, 144, 150, 179, 190, 242, 246, 274, 298, 335
Warner, Sam, 159
Warner’s Hollywood Theatre, 159, 160, 196, 184, 188, 220, 223, 247, 280, 298, 365, 370
Warner’s (Vitagraph Studio), 150, 292
Washington Mutual, 369
Washington, Denzel, 360–361
Wattles, Gurdon, 48, 310
Wayne, John, 139, 166, 188, 282
Weak Sisters, 147
Weid, Ivar, 16
Weill, Kurt, 201
Weismuller, Johnny, 365
Welch, Raquel, 319, 328
Weld, Tuesday, 355
Welk, Lawrence, 319, 328
Welles, Orson, 268, 274, 329
Welsh, Bill, 287, 289, 291, 332
Werfel, Otto, 235
West, Mae, 127, 142, 186, 211, 223, 272, 334, 365
West, Nathanael, 200, 238
Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, 122
Western Union, 72, 131
Westinghouse, 357
Westmore, Ern, 209, 233, 241
Westmore, Frank, 241, 323
Westmore, George, 209
Westmore, John, 95
Westmore, Perc, 209, 233
Westwood, 227, 239, 324, 364
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