Hollyhock House, Egyptian Theatre, Huntington Library. A number of L.A.’s most inspiring structures went up in the 1920s and they’re enduring parts of the area.
Los Angeles may be notorious for ignoring history and reinventing itself at breakneck speed, but there are exceptions. And some of them take up entire city blocks.
A century ago, the influenza epidemic of 1919 was a fresh memory. Movies and radio were disrupting pop culture. And plenty of people were nervous about the coming ’32 Olympics. Advertised as Culver City’s first skyscraper when it opened a few blocks from MGM Studios, the hotel has its fair share of Hollywood lore. John Wayne once owned the building and Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and Buster Keaton all kept apartments there. Most famously, MGM put up the 124 actors who played the Munchkins at the hotel when they were shooting “The Wizard of Oz.
The theater seats about 640. The company’s 2024-25 season begins Sept. 4 with “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Tickets start at $40. Construction on the infamous and inviting Chateau Marmont began in 1927 on a wild hillside off of what was then a dirt trail known as Sunset Boulevard. Conceived by L.A. attorney and developer Fred Horowitz as a luxury apartment building for wealthy out-of-towners, the seven-story French-Gothic structure featuring spiky turrets, arched windows and steep roofs was modeled on the Château d’Amboise, a royal retreat in the Loire Valley.
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