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Nice place to live, good gym, pools, etc. Also quick to the beach if you take the 90

Used to be Todd-AO

thi is the site of former jerry lewis mansion

Home of the big bad piratas?

Back when I was a kid, my dad would take me to the yearly auto show inside the Pan pacific auditorium. One year they had on display what was left of James Dean's Porche Speedster.

12920 Foothill Blvd., San Fernando, CA 91340 (818)365-7710 M-F 10am-8:30pm Sat 9am-8:30pm Sun 10am-6pm

13700 Foothill Blvd., Sylmar, CA 91342

Originally, Todd-AO dubbing stage A. .

Was at one time the studios of ABC radio and then TV. Those buildings were demolished after a fire razed most of them. Only the facade facing Vine Street remains.

In 1938, NBC built a huge radio complex on Sunset and Vine. It was sadly demolished to make way for a savings and loan building plus a parking lot.

It actually had four studios. Two upstair which were A & B. They were large audience studios designed for NBC. Studio A is where Frank Sinatra recorded many of his best Capital albums. Downstairs contained two smaller studios, C & D. Studio C was also used by Sinatra as well as Nat King Cole. When KHJ TV moved into the building sometime in the early 1960s, they subdivided the two large upstairs audience studios using them for control rooms and offices.

Once contained the Paramount music scoring stage (Studio M).

Part of this block became a radio and then TV studio. KMTR built a rambling mission-styled building that faced Caheunga Blvd. that had a circular driveway. At each end was a tall transmission tower. Later, KLAC TV Channel 13 took over the facility and it later became KCOP. When KCOP moved to La Brea, the station was demolished. All that's left is the small corner building. which contained one of the TV studios.

This small building was once a TV studio when KLAC TV Channel 13 had a facility here. Originally the home of radio station KMTR which was built as a long mission-styled structure that connected to this building. Later the home of KCOP before they moved to 915 N. La Brea Ave.

The French village set depicting Lourdes sat here used for THE SONG OF BERNADETTE.

This is roughly the spot where the full-sized flying saucer mock-up was filmed for the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. In the film, in some angles, buildings from neighboring Beverly Hills High can be seen.

When the land belonged to Fox, this area contained a large lake.

Way back in the 1950s up till the land was sold, this is approximately where the Slygon castle exterior set was located which was constructed for the 1954 Cinemascope film, PRINCE VALIANT.

This was once home to exterior sets when the land was owned by 20th Century Fox.