Billboard for Beverly Hills Heights with actress Dorothy Dunbar, Beverly Hills, California, 1926

Posted on June 15, 2019 by

Billboard for Beverly Hills Heights with actress Dorothy Dunbar, Beverly Hills, California, 1926I had never heard of Beverly Hills Heights before I came across this 1926 photo. I assume it’s a publicity photo because they’ve got the mandatory pretty girl in it. (She is identified as “actress Dorothy Dunbar” who I had to look up on IMDB. Turns out she only did nine movies, none of which I’d never heard of, but she did play Lady Greystroke in 1927’s “Tarzan and the Golden Lion” which also featured a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff.) I had trouble finding where Beverly Hills Heights was but it appeared to be south of Wilshire Blvd, which is ironic considering the land there is quite flat. You’d think it’d be up in the famed hills of Beverly.

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3 responses to “Billboard for Beverly Hills Heights with actress Dorothy Dunbar, Beverly Hills, California, 1926”

  1. pdq says:
    June 15, 2019 at 2:01 pm

    See last paragraph re: BH Heights

    https://patch.com/california/beverlyhills/these-beverly-hills-neighborhoods-among-most-expensive-la

    I wonder if this was part of the old Beverly Hills Speedway property. The speedway closed in 1924 and relocated to Culver City. https://patch.com/california/beverlyhills/bp–our-fast-past-the-beverly-hills-speedway

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  2. J Yuma says:
    June 15, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    According to the folks over at waterandpower.org the land that the speedway sat on gave way to BH Heights and other developments.

    https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Beverly_Hills_Page_1.html

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