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ANGELS WALK® LA UCLA’S UCLA’S ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD FIRST HOME FIRST HOME Angels Walk East Hollywood LACC LACC Select Stanchions 1 East Hollywood Transit UCLA’S FIRST HOME • LACC 2 UCLA’S First Home • LACC LOS ANGELES STATE That year, the institution’s name was changed to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). On “moving day,” May 31, 1929, more than 500 cars dec- NORMAL SCHOOL orated in school colors and carrying campus equipment caravanned 10 miles 3 Cahuenga Branch Library Founded in 1881, Los Angeles State west from the old site to the new. That September undergraduate classes were Normal School played a vital role held for a student body of 5,500. The first football game between long-standing 4 Early Hollywood Pioneers in the educational development of rivals, the UCLA Bruins California. Alumni of the two-year and USC Trojans, also teacher training program taught took place in 1929—with 5 Hollywood Hospital children all over the state. By 1917, the Bruins losing 76-0. enrollment had risen to 1,671 students, a majority of whom were FROM UCLA TO 6 Cedars of Lebanon Hospital CALIFORNIA / LIBRARY SOCIETY COLLECTION HISTORICAL DIGITAL USC THE OF COURTESY PHOTO Los Angeles County Teachers Institute students and faculty at the women, making it the largest teacher Los Angeles State Normal School, c. 1884. training institute in California. In THE CITY’S COLLEGE 7 A Growing Community 1914, the Normal School moved from downtown to a newly built 25-acre Italian After UCLA relocated, Romanesque–inspired campus on Vermont Avenue. the Los Angeles Board of Education purchased the 8 Vermont Avenue site for Faith Communities TWO MEN WITH A DREAM COLLECTION PAPERS BARTLETT ADELBERT / COLLECTIONS SPECIAL UCLA LIBRARY THE OF COURTESY PHOTO

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UCLA LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS / THELNER AND LOUISE THELNER AND HOOVER / COLLECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIAL UCLA LIBRARY COLLLECTION THE OF COURTESY PHOTO The Los Angeles Junior College band, c. 1931. During the 1910s, Edward Augustus A student union rally on the Main Quad in front of Millspaugh Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles’ Vermont campus, c. 1929. 9 Kaiser Permanente Dickson, editor at the Los Angeles Express $700,000 with plans of establishing a community and member of the University of A CAMPUS TAKES LIFE college. On September 9, 1929, the Los Angeles California Board of Regents, realized 10 On September 15, 1919, Junior College opened with an inaugural Little Armenia that Los Angeles needed a public univer- the Southern Branch of the enrollment of 1,300 and a staff of 54 teach- sity. “There was no visible evidence of the ers. College-level classes, as well as technical Dr. Ernest Carroll Moore University of California wel- University of California in this area,” he PHOTO COURTESY OF THE USC DIGITAL LIBRARY 11 Barnsdall Art Park CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION comed students “out in the and professional courses were offered. The recalled. “There did exist, Edward A. Dickson PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HERALD EXAMINER COLLECTION LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY weeds and wildflowers of school changed its name to Los Angeles City however, a growing Vermont.” Within weeks the College in 1938. Many notable people have studied 12 The Early Cahuenga Valley demand for higher educational facilities, and student-run Cub Californian at LACC over the years, including actors Mark Los Angeles Junior College students are covered in mud after I early came to the conclusion that this need participating in the school’s annual Mud Fight, a campus editorialized: “A good begin- Hamill and Lawrence Fishburne, actress and tradition between first and second year students, c. 1936 FRANKLIN AVE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UCLA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS / LOS ANGELES TIMES PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE must be met.” ning has been made. We have swimming star Esther 13 Children’s Hospital RUSSELL AVE PHOTO COURTESY OF HERMAN SCHULTHEIS, THE LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHERS COLLECTION / LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LOS ANGELES LIBRARY / PHOTOGRAPHERS LOS COLLECTION THE HERMAN SCHULTHEIS, OF COURTESY PHOTO Dickson found an ally in Dr. Ernest Carroll a yell leader, and we have the Williams, actor/director MELBOURNE AVE Los Angeles Junior College students between classes, c. 1937. ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD beginning of a football team Clint Eastwood, pro- KINGSWELL AVE Moore, president of the Normal School. The HISTORIC STANCHIONS: 14 N HOLLYWOOD BLVD PROSPECT AVE

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03_UCLA-First-Home_SIDE_R4.indd 1 8/12/19 8:45 PM 03_UCLA-First-Home_SIDE_R4.indd 2 8/12/19 8:46 PM ANGELS WALK® LA BARNSDALL BARNSDALL ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD ART PARK ART PARK Angels Walk East Hollywood Select Stanchions 1 East Hollywood Transit BARNSDALL ART PARK 2 UCLA’S First Home • LACC A FEMALE DON QUIXOTE GIFTS AND GRIEVANCES Oil heiress Aline Barnsdall was an artistic visionary, feminist, By the mid-1920s, the mercurial

3 Cahuenga Branch Library world traveler, political radical, and friend of the anar- Barnsdall had tired of her hilltop PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY chist Emma Goldman. “I believe I could best describe commune and in 1926 deeded the her as a sort of ‘female Don Quixote,’” Barnsdall’s land and buildings to the City of 4 Early Hollywood Pioneers daughter, Betty, remembered. “Always jousting at Los Angeles for use as an art center windmills—a dreamer.” and public park. That same year 5 Hollywood Hospital the California Art Club moved their As a young woman, Barnsdall was fascinated headquarters into Hollyhock House, with experimental theater and studied under and an outdoor children’s theater 6 Cedars of Lebanon Hospital the famed actress Eleonora Duse. She began pro- was established on the grounds. ducing plays, mounting a production of Alice in A children’s art class in front of Hollyhock House, c. 1930. Wonderland in Chicago. Barnsdall dreamed of build- Barnsdall continued to exert control 7 A Growing Community ing a theatrical and artistic community—a creative over her former hilltop domain. She erected billboards on land she still owned campus—like the ones she had encountered in Europe, around the park’s perimeter, advocating for with her home in the center. “Art is the soul of the peo- Aline Barnsdall progressive causes, including the freeing 8 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK COLLECTION / Faith Communities ple,” she explained. “Without visions, we are only ants, LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY of labor leader Frank Mooney. She also and our communities only ant hills.” ANGELES LOS PUBLIC LIBRARY / BANK COLLECTION NATIONAL PACIFIC SECURITY THE OF COURTESY PHOTO fought Los Angeles over various land Hollyhock House, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is the centerpiece of Barnsdall Art Park. Aline Barnsdall donated the building and 9 Kaiser Permanente surrounding grounds to the City of Los Angeles in 1927. It was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1965, and a UNESCO agreements. Barnsdall died in 1946, in ALINE AND FRANK World Heritage Site in 2019. a small house on Olive Hill deeded to In 1919, Barnsdall bought To design her artistic hilltop compound, Barnsdall hired her brilliant and her by the city. 10 Little Armenia 36 acres on Olive Hill. equally pugnacious friend, the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who she The crest was already well knew from Chicago. From the A PARK FOR THE PEOPLE 11 Barnsdall Art Park known in East Hollywood start, Barnsdall and Wright had In 1967, the Junior Arts Center opened for its grove of 1,225 a highly contentious relation- at Barnsdall Park. The Los Angeles olive trees and as the ship. They ultimately parted Municipal Art Gallery and the Barnsdall 12 The Early Cahuenga Valley site of Easter sunrise ways, but not before Wright Gallery Theatre debuted in 1971. Hollyhock

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY The entrance to Barnsdall Park services. It had A 1896 view of the Cahuenga Valley looking from Olive Hill. designed many buildings for on Hollywood Boulevard, c. 1937. House was designated as a UNESCO World PHOTO COURTESY OF HERMAN SCHULTHEIS, LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHERS COLLECTION also stood in for the compound, including NN 13 Children’s Hospital PHOTO COURTESY OF THE USC DIGITAL LIBRARY / “DICK” WHITTINGTON PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION RUSSELL AVE the Mount of Aline’s home—known Heritage Site in 2019 ANGELS WALK MELBOURNEEAST AVE HOLLYWOOD Olives during the filming of as Hollyhock House and both the park KINGSWELL AVE HISTORIC STANCHIONS: 14 and house are City of N PROSPECT AVE Hooray for Hollywood D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. (named after her RO MYRA

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Special thanks to: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti City Council of the City of Los Angeles Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell Supported by: For more information about Angels Walk LA City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Street Services and to download a guidebook to accompany Los Angeles Department of Transportation this, and other historical walks, please visit Metro (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) www.angelswalkla.org. Bottom photo: The interior courtyard of Hollyhock House, c. Bottom photo: The TOP PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY ANGELES PUBLIC LOS ANGELES LIBRARY / PHOTOGRAPHERS LOS COLLECTION ADAMS, ANSEL OF COURTESY PHOTO BOTTOM north from Olive Hill, c. photo: Looking Top ANGELES PUBLIC LOS ANGELES LIBRARY / PHOTOGRAPHERS LOS COLLECTION OF HERMAN SCHULTHEIS, COURTESY PHOTO TOP ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER LOS PUBLIC / LIBRARY BOB STEINER, OF COLLECTION COURTESY PHOTO BOTTOM c. lounge in the garden of Barnsdall Art Park, photo: Friends Top © 2019 ANGELS WALK LA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PERMISSION TO REPRINT OR REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL MUST BE GRANTED IN WRITING BY ANGELS WALK LA, INC. ANGELS WALK LA IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK. Bottom photo: Wooden billboards erected by Aline Barnsdall at Sunset Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, c. ©2020 Angels Walk LA©2020 Angels Walk

11_BarnsdallArtPark_SIDE_R5.indd 1 8/13/19 11:21 AM 11_BarnsdallArtPark_SIDE_R5.indd 2 8/13/19 11:21 AM ® ANGELS WALK LA HOORAY FOR HOORAY FOR ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD ANGELS WALK EAST HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Angels Walk East Hollywood Select Stanchions 1 East Hollywood Transit HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD 2 UCLA’S First Home • LACC FILM COMPANIES MOVE WEST 4401 SUNSET BOULEVARD During the early 1900s, many East Coast film companies, which dominated the For a brief period of time (1910–1916), Siegmund “Pop” Lubin was one of the 3 Cahuenga Branch Library new industry at the time, were searching for better weather, varied locations, top leaders in the early film industry and is still considered the original movie cheap nonunion labor, and an escape from the litigious Motion Picture Patents mogul. His empire encompassed all aspects of the business, including pro- Company (MPCC), which often shook down Northeast-based filmmakers for duction, distribution, and exhibition. As the focus of the movie industry was 4 Early Hollywood Pioneers licensing fees. All these elements could quickly moving from east to west, Lubin decided to build a new studio at 4401 be found in far-flung Los Angeles, and Sunset Boulevard in 1913. In a 5 Hollywood Hospital slowly East Coast companies began few short years Lubin closed his moving to the West Coast, particularly studio and it was soon sold to into the Cahuenga Valley area. In 1909, Essanay, whose roster included 6 Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Selig-Polyscope built the first perma- some of the biggest stars of the nent movie studio in the neighborhood time, like Francis X. Bushman, of Edendale (now Silver Lake.) They Charlie Chaplin, and Broncho 7 A Growing Community HUFF THEODORE OF COURTESY PHOTO Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios on Glendale Boulevard in Edendale were soon joined by comedy pioneer Billy. Through the years the

(later to become Silver Lake), c. 1915. Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studios. COMMONS WIKIMEDIA OF COURTESY PHOTO facility was leased to various inde- 8 Faith Communities William Fox established the studio that would become 20th Century Fox close Essanay stars Francis X. Bushman, Charlie Chaplin, and Broncho Billy, c. 1915. pendent producers, including to the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue. Other fledgling ANGELES LOS PUBLIC LIBRARY / BANK COLLECTION NATIONAL PACIFIC SECURITY THE OF COURTESY PHOTO Charles Ray, who constructed many of the studio’s remaining brick buildings. The Selig-Polyscope Company – Pacific Coast Studio, the first permanent movie studio in Edendale (now Silver Lake), was located at 850 Allesandro studios soon popped up on and around Sunset Boulevard (particularly near the Street, which would later be renamed Glendale Boulevard, c. 1910. From 1943 to 1964, the compound was home to Monogram 9 Kaiser Permanente intersection of Sunset and Gower), where land was cheaper than on Hollywood In 1915, Vitagraph Studios officially Pictures, which produced hundreds of “B” Western Boulevard. Cahuenga Valley locals were slow to welcome the new moved to a 29-acre sheep ranch at movies. In 1971, it became the longtime home of 10 Little Armenia industry, often hanging “No Movies” signs outside their businesses. 4151 Prospect Avenue in the Los public TV station KCET, before being bought by the Church of Scientology in 2011. VITAGRAPH STUDIOS Feliz area. Vitagraph became a 11 Barnsdall Art Park magnet for stars of the silent DISNEY’S HYPERION STUDIO The American Vitagraph Company was founded in 1897 in era, including Norma Talmadge Brooklyn, New York, by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert J. Smith. (adjacent Talmadge Street was The last silent era studio in the area was that of 12 The Early Cahuenga Valley It was one of the original 10 production companies in the Motion named for her) and Bebe Daniels. Walt and Roy Disney. In the early 1920s, they lived Picture Patents Company. In 1909 the studio made the first with their aunt at 4406 Kingswell Avenue and set up Disney’s Hyperion Studio. PHOTO COURTESY OF WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES long-form silent film, The Life of Moses. Its five reels were shown In 1925, Vitagraph was sold to The Disney Brothers Cartoon StudioNN in the garage. In

13 Children’s Hospital serial-style (one per week) as a running narrative, distinguishing it Warner Bros. and two years later 1926, they bought land RUSSELL AVE Florence Turner, from the shorts and newsreels common at the time. Because of this the “Vitagraph Girl.” the studio became the Warner East for a proper studio at ANGELS WALK MELBOURNEEAST AVE HOLLYWOOD PHOTO COURTESY OF VITAGRAPH STUDIOS / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS KINGSWELL AVE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SECURITY PACIFIC NATIONAL BANK COLLECTION / LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LOS LIBRARY / BANK COLLECTION NATIONAL PACIFIC SECURITY THE OF COURTESY PHOTO distinction theaters “featured” it above other reels and the concept of Hollywood Annex. Parts 2719 Hyperion Avenue. HISTORIC STANCHIONS: 14 The Vitagraph Studio in Los Feliz included two daylight film stages, N PROSPECT AVE

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