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Thursday, December 17, 2009 – Certain Danger

A warning where Sunset Boulevard meets the Hollywood Freeway –

Dangerous stuff just to the left, at the wreck of what used to be "The Old Spaghetti Factory" on Sunset Boulevard –

There too, caged women –

Look up –

And there's this –

The odd thing is that she is staring at the Old Warner Brothers Studio directly across the street, at 5800 Sunset Boulevard – the site where the first talking feature was filmed in 1927. "The Jazz Singer" changed everything. But in 1937 Warner closed the studio and moved out to bigger and better digs in Burbank. The property was converted into a bowling alley and "sports center" – but Paramount came to the rescue, and then in 1967 Gene Autry and his company, Golden West Broadcasters, acquired the old studio property from Paramount. Now KTLA is there, and it's now a once again a motion picture, radio and television production facility, and all pretty again. The site was designated as a Historic Cultural Landmark in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, not that it matters – the neighborhood is still seedy, and dangerous.

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