Looking east along Hollywood Blvd at Highland Ave, 1936
Here we’re looking east along Hollywood Blvd at the Highland Ave corner in 1936. We can tell the year from the movie poster hanging in front of the Hollywood Theatre (which is now Ripley’s Believe It or Not) on the right-hand side. They were showing the Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. On the left we can see the vertical sign for the Montmartre Café, which surprises me because the Montmartre was the “in” place to be in Hollywood in the ‘20s. I wouldn’t have thought it’d last into the mid ‘30s after the in crowd had moved on to other venues.
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From the LA Times:
In 1929, Brandstatter made a disastrous mistake by opening a private venue, the Embassy Club, for his Hollywood friends. Now that they had paid their dues, the stars started partying at the Embassy Club instead of the Montmartre, and since the stars weren’t dining there anymore, ordinary people stopped coming too.
On top of that, by 1932 a lot of Brandstatter’s old friends were no longer stars and couldn’t afford their dues to the Embassy Club. His solution was to open it to the general public, with the result that the stars pulled out.
That year he declared bankruptcy and, after he sold the Montmartre, was convicted of theft for having absconded with assorted furnishings, including drapes, china and a large statue of a nude woman (described in the Los Angeles Times as “a cherished art object”). http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/14/food/la-fo-brandstatter-20110414
Whoa! Thanks for that. I knew he had a run of bad luck but I didn’t know the details.
I believe this is the ” cherished art object”
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092908.jpg
This print is hanging at the entrance of Julius Katz and Kings well on Buena Vista Street in Disney California Adventure. This part of the park pays homage to Los Angeles circa 1928 and 1930s when Walt Disney arrived in LA and was trying to establish his career.
Thank you for giving me more information to regale our guests with.
You’re very welcome, Rita!