Here we have a bird’s-eye view the Warner Bros. studio at 5800 Sunset Blvd in Hollywood where they filmed their game-changing “The Jazz Singer.” I’ve only ever seen photos of these studios from ground level, and always of the classic-style façade with row of columns which we can see in this photo. I never knew that building had a huge sign painted on its roof: WARNER BROS WEST COAST STUDIOS. After a few name changes, KTLA television moved in 1955, and now it’s mostly used as a production facility by Netflix.
How that main building facing Sunset looked in February 2021:
..and they moved the tower back to its original location it seems?
They relocated the KTLA tower from its location a block east to the corner of Sunset and Bronson in early 2015 when they demolished the corner at Sunset/Van Ness to build the Netflix building.
I’ve driven past this building a million times and never knew what it used to be. Wow!
The fact that they felt the need to specify this was the West Coast studio presupposes that there was an East Coast studio. I’m curious where that might have been. Fort Lee, New Jersey, perhaps? Or somewhere in one of New York’s boroughs?
Good question. From memory, the brothers started out in Pennsylvania, but this one is the first studio they built.
Given that this signage could only be seen from an aircraft viewpoint, one might wonder if the radio towers were used to emit an aviation guidance signal. Anyone know if that were the case?
It’s possible, I guess, but I’ve never read about anything like that.