It’s not often that you see a realtor share space with a movie theater. This is the Granada, which stood at 7425 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood. A Bessie Love movie called “The Ghost Patrol” was playing so it was 1923. What caught my eye was that little stand out on the sidewalk with the triangular top. I guess it was a mini billboard advertising properties for sale. The Granada later became the Oriental and in the 1950s was host to The Bugs Bunny Club. Can you imagine the din of screaming kids every Saturday afternoon?
Victoria T says: “I was one of the kids in the 1950s at the Oriental. Nine cents to get in, two features, ten cartoons and a serial.”
That stretch of Sunset Blvd sure doesn’t look like that anymore! (This image is from May 2019)
I spent TOO much time at that guitar center, bought some guitars there in the early OOs. Like the commenter above, I would take the Spanish Revival with the screaming kids than screaming, badly played guitars in that “garish” box any day.
As an Englishman, seeing these beautiful historic buildings being torn down and replaced without it seems any form of legislative recourse is beyond me. The UK has very stringent rules about the up keep or destination of historic or significant architecture, and it’s such a shame that so much of what made Los Angeles unique is disappearing (the recent bulldozing of LACMA is another example)
Yes, I was one of the screaming kids most Saturdays early ‘50s at the Bugs Bunny Club. The theatre also serviced temporarily as St. Ambrose while the church on Fairfax was being built.
It’s not often that you see a realtor share space with a movie theater. This is the Granada, which stood at 7425 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood. A Bessie Love movie called “The Ghost Patrol” was playing so it was 1923. What caught my eye was that little stand out on the sidewalk with the triangular top. I guess it was a mini billboard advertising properties for sale. The Granada later became the Oriental and in the 1950s was host to The Bugs Bunny Club. Can you imagine the din of screaming kids every Saturday afternoon?
Will anyone ever feel nostalgic for the garish box that is the Guitar Center? My guess is that it will one day be gone, torn down and replaced.
I’m guessing no, they won’t. But then again, I’m not a guitarist, so who knows.
I spent TOO much time at that guitar center, bought some guitars there in the early OOs. Like the commenter above, I would take the Spanish Revival with the screaming kids than screaming, badly played guitars in that “garish” box any day.
Yeah, I’d take Spanish Revival with screaming kids over that box, too!
As an Englishman, seeing these beautiful historic buildings being torn down and replaced without it seems any form of legislative recourse is beyond me. The UK has very stringent rules about the up keep or destination of historic or significant architecture, and it’s such a shame that so much of what made Los Angeles unique is disappearing (the recent bulldozing of LACMA is another example)
Destruction not destination!
TOO LATE!
Yeah…..no. We don’t have nearly the same rules over here, more’s the pity.
Too bad the Great Fire of 1666 and the German Blitz seem to be forgotten in the “modern” urge to turn English churches into mosques.
Yes, I was one of the screaming kids most Saturdays early ‘50s at the Bugs Bunny Club. The theatre also serviced temporarily as St. Ambrose while the church on Fairfax was being built.
You were? Was I assuming correctly? Were you all screaming?