In 1939, some intrepid photographer climbed onto the roof of the CBS Columbia Square studios on the northwest corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower St and took a photo of Columbia Studios, where they could have been filming “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” I’ve always assumed that Columbia studios filled the corner but from the looks of the Columbia Drug Co. drugstore, there was a line of stores along Sunset. That water tower in the distance belonged to Warner Bros. when they still maintained the studios where they filmed “The Jazz Singer.”
That same corner in 2018. Now that I think about it, I should never have assumed that the Columbia lot didn’t extend to the corner. Nowadays, there’s a restaurant where those stores used to stand.
In 1939, some intrepid photographer climbed onto the roof of the CBS Columbia Square studios on the northwest corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower St and took a photo of Columbia Studios, where they could have been filming “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” I’ve always assumed that Columbia studios filled the corner but from the looks of the Columbia Drug Co. drugstore, there was a line of stores along Sunset. That water tower in the distance belonged to Warner Bros. when they still maintained the studios where they filmed “The Jazz Singer.”
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