{"id":21595,"date":"2021-01-24T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2021-01-24T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T16:30:08","slug":"rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2021\/01\/24\/rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RKO Radio Pictures Studios, Gower Street, Los Angeles, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21596\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2021\/01\/24\/rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935-2\/rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?fit=1018%2C1234&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1018,1234\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1608757262&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RKO Radio Pictures Studios, Gower Street, Los Angeles, 1935\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?fit=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?fit=640%2C776&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?resize=640%2C776&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"RKO Radio Pictures Studios, Gower Street, Los Angeles, 1935\" width=\"640\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?resize=845%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 845w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?resize=247%2C300&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?resize=768%2C931&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Studios-Gower-Street-Los-Angeles-1935.jpg?w=1018&amp;ssl=1 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>From the late 1920s to the late 1950, the movie studios at the northeast corner of Melrose Ave and Gower St were home to RKO Radio Pictures. It was hard to miss them if you were driving along Melrose\u2014there was a huge painted concrete globe of the Earth with the iconic radio tower on top. This photo was taken on Gower looking south toward Melrose; we can see the globe and tower on the right. I\u2019ve always liked the oh-so-1930s font RKO used for their logo, but especially displayed along the outer wall like this in huge letters. This space was always used to display billboards of RKO\u2019s movies. We can see \u201cIn Person\u201d starring Ginger Rogers, which came out in November 1935.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa fgxwclzu a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\" dir=\"auto\">Much the same view in April 2019. The RKO tower is gone now, but the concrete Earth is still there, as are the billboards:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2021\/01\/24\/rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935-2\/april-2019-25\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?fit=1068%2C882&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1068,882\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"april 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?fit=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?fit=640%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21597\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?resize=640%2C529&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?resize=1024%2C846&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?resize=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?resize=768%2C634&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/april-2019-3.png?w=1068&amp;ssl=1 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the late 1920s to the late 1950, the movie studios at the northeast corner of Melrose Ave and Gower St were home to RKO Radio Pictures. It was hard to miss them if you were driving along Melrose\u2014there was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2021\/01\/24\/rko-radio-pictures-studios-gower-street-los-angeles-1935-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,124],"class_list":["post-21595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movie-studios","tag-rko"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-5Cj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21599,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions\/21599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}