Before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer merger in 1924, the studio lot at 10202 W. Washington Boulevard, Culver City was Samuel Goldwyn’s. This photo was taken in 1918 and you can see the colonnaded gate (circled in red) which became famous as the gates through with the MGM stars entered the studio. Those columns are still there and every time I drive past them, I refuse to acknowledge that they now belong to Sony. In my mind, they’re still “the MGM columns.”