This young man lived to be a hundred years old: He opened a film studio in the teens in downtown Los Angeles in the old Bradbury residence, referred to by his friend Harold Lloyd as “pneumonia hall” due the chilling drafts. He moved onto his own place and over the…
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Lewis Bradbury was a mover and shaker in Los Angeles of the 1890s. In the 1920s Hal Roach opened a film studio in his old house on Bunker Hill, the Rolin Film Company. This is the house when Lewis lived there:Harold Lloyd called the place “pneumonia hall” due to the…
Here’s the skinny from the Los Angeles Times about a club in Los Angeles where the high and mighty got silly and drank during Prohibition… Goofy Goings-On at Honcho Hangout – Los Angeles Times. The founder was the grandfather of the infamous Haldeman who was involved in the Watergate scandal.…
Season’s greetings, poppets! This is an image floating around the interwebs from the January, 1940 edition of Better Homes and Gardens. A year or two ago this same house sold to a perfectly beguiling man who fully appreciated the home’s heritage. He did a sensitive restoration, and, when he happened…