{"id":25597,"date":"2022-10-06T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=25597"},"modified":"2022-10-06T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:31:58","slug":"aerial-view-of-paramount-studios-and-the-hollywood-memorial-cemetery-hollywood-circa-1930s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/10\/06\/aerial-view-of-paramount-studios-and-the-hollywood-memorial-cemetery-hollywood-circa-1930s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial view of Paramount studios and the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, Hollywood, circa 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25598\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/10\/06\/aerial-view-of-paramount-studios-and-the-hollywood-memorial-cemetery-hollywood-circa-1930s-2\/aerial-view-of-paramount-studios-and-the-hollywood-memorial-cemetery-hollywood-circa-1930s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?fit=800%2C609&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,609\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1298664797","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Aerial view of Paramount studios and the Hollywood Memorial cemetery, Hollywood, circa 1930s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?fit=300%2C228&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?fit=640%2C487&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25598\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?resize=640%2C487&ssl=1\" alt=\"Aerial view of Paramount studios and the Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, Hollywood, circa 1930s\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?resize=300%2C228&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Aerial-view-of-Paramount-studios-and-the-Hollywood-Memorial-cemetery-Hollywood-circa-1930s.jpg?resize=768%2C585&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This shot gives us a bird\u2019s-eye view of Paramount studios sometime in the 1930s. Running up the middle of the photo we can see the soundstages and to the right (i.e. the west) the backlot. This was a time when RKO was a separate studio existing directly to the left out of the frame of this photo. To the north of the photo is a cemetery known back then as Hollywood Memorial Park. For a long while, it was the main cemetery where many of Hollywood\u2019s early leading light were buried. These days it\u2019s called Hollywood Forever and is where Judy Garland was recently moved to.<\/p>\n<p>This satellite image of the same area is from January 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25599\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/10\/06\/aerial-view-of-paramount-studios-and-the-hollywood-memorial-cemetery-hollywood-circa-1930s-2\/jan-2020-20\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?fit=1714%2C982&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1714,982\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?fit=300%2C172&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?fit=640%2C367&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?resize=640%2C367&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?resize=1024%2C587&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?resize=300%2C172&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?resize=768%2C440&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?resize=1536%2C880&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?w=1714&ssl=1 1714w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jan-2020.png?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shot gives us a bird\u2019s-eye view of Paramount studios sometime in the 1930s. Running up the middle of the photo we can see the soundstages and to the right (i.e. the west) the backlot. 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