Currents & Tangents » travel http://www.currentsandtangents.com The personal site of Jake Kerr Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Old Hollywood http://www.currentsandtangents.com/2009/06/16/old-hollywood/ http://www.currentsandtangents.com/2009/06/16/old-hollywood/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:30:17 +0000 Jake http://www.currentsandtangents.com/?p=825 I’m traveling in Los Angeles for business this week, and I visited my boss at his house in Toluca Lake. It was an incredibly cool experience as Toluca Lake is pretty much the definition of old Hollywood. It is roughly between the Warner Brothers and Universal studio lots and it is near the mountains, so in the 20s and 30s, Hollywood stars naturally settled there. A good example is Bob Hope, whose widow still lives there.

My boss lives in the house that was built by Jack Webb, the star of Dragnet. There is a lake about a block away, and across the lake is a golf course. Apparantly in the thirties, Johnny Weismuller (Tarzan actor and former Olympic swimmer) would swim from his house on the lake across the lake to the golf course.

Anyway, you can learn more about Toluca Lake via Wikipedia.

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