{"id":21972,"date":"2021-03-20T07:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2021-03-20T07:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T14:09:38","slug":"french-village-highland-ave-at-cahuenga-blvd-hollywood-circa-early-1930s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2021\/03\/20\/french-village-highland-ave-at-cahuenga-blvd-hollywood-circa-early-1930s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"French Village, Highland Ave at Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, circa early 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FrenchThough little remembered these days, back in the 1920s through the early 50s, a French village stood at the corner where Highland Ave met Cahuenga Blvd, which put it near the entrance of the Hollywood Bowl. It saw a revolving directory of screenwriters, actors music teachers, and costume designers (including MGM\u2019s Adrian) who had their offices there. You can see clearer pictures on a post of mine from 2014<\/strong><\/a> but in a way I almost prefer this image. There is a ghostly quality to it, much like the dim, fleeting memories of a charming place that fell victim to the Hollywood Freeway. It looks like that\u2019s a 1932 Ford parked out front, so this photo is circa early-to-mid 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though little remembered these days, back in the 1920s through the early 50s, a French village stood at the corner where Highland Ave met Cahuenga Blvd, which put it near the entrance of the Hollywood Bowl. It saw a revolving … Continue reading →<\/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":[8,25,53],"class_list":["post-21972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-bowl","tag-mgm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-5Io","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972","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=21972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21974,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions\/21974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}