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Gaylord Apartments, corner of Wilshire Blvd and Kenmore Ave, Los Angeles, 1938
Most vintage photos of the Gaylord Apartments were taken looking eastward down Wilshire Boulevard from Normandie Ave or Harvard Boulevard so this one taken looking eastward from Kenmore is a refreshing change—even if we can’t see the iconic Brown Derby … Continue reading
Night shot of Tom Breneman’s Hollywood Restaurant with banner advertising Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra, Vine St, Hollywood, circa late 1940s
By the time Tom Breneman opened his restaurant on Vine Street just north of Sunset Boulevard on March 26, 1945, he was a very well-known radio personality with millions of followers. In this one we can see a banner advertising … Continue reading
Color postcard of NBC radio studios, corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St, Hollywood, circa late 1930s
Although this postcard is a highly stylized, artificially colorized depiction of the NBC Radio City studios at Sunset Blvd and Vine St in Hollywood, it gives us an idea of the sort or artwork / photography hybrid they used to … Continue reading
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CBS Columbia Square broadcasting center, Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, Hollywood, 1939
NBC Studios at Sunset and Vine get most of the attention but down the street at Sunset and Gower were CBS’s Hollywood facility, known as Columbia Square. The eight-studio complex got a splashy opening on April 30, 1938 and quickly … Continue reading
CBS Columbia Square Studios, Sunset Blvd, circa mid 1940s
This is one of those miraculous photos of Los Angeles that you rarely see: a prominent building that hasn’t changed much over the years. This is the CBS studios—known as “CBS Columbia Square—at the corner of Sunset Blvd and Gower … Continue reading
Demolition of the NBC Studios at the corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St, Hollywood, 1964
This photo is quite a heartbreaker—the demolition of the NBC Studios at the corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine St, Hollywood in 1964. From when it opened in 1938, those studios were an iconic anchor to the broadcasting life in … Continue reading
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A car set up for broadcasting with speakers on the roof and above the driver’s head, Los Angeles, circa 1928
This photo shows us how far we’ve come in technology. These days, of course, we can broadcast from pretty much anywhere using a cell phone that’s no bigger than the palm of our hand. But back in the late 1920s, … Continue reading
A crowd lines up along Sunset Boulevard east of Vine Street, Hollywood, 1944
This crowd was lined up along Sunset Boulevard east of Vine Street in Hollywood in 1944, but it’s hard to know what they were lining up for because that was a very busy stretch of Sunset back then. They could … Continue reading
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A crowd of listeners outside Collins’ Radio Shop at 223 South San Fernando Blvd in 1926, listening to the World Series, Burbank, California, 1926
In this age of smartphones and Spotify and headphones, listening to audio entertainment has become an individual thing. We can easily forget that less than 100 years ago, it was very much a communal experience. This photo shows us a … Continue reading
NBC Radio City, Sunset and Vine, Los Angeles, 1949
I have a collection of photos of the NBC radio and television studios at the corner of Sunset and Vine (you can see them on my website at http://bit.ly/nbc-sunset-vine) but I’ve never seen a shot of NBC with that green … Continue reading
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