The Hollywood Tower over on Franklin Avenue, built in 1929, was a luxury apartment building for the entertainment industry in the thirties. George Raft owned an interest in the building and lived there, but everyone knows it because it's the model for Disney's "Tower of Terror" attractions at the parks in Florida, California, Paris and Tokyo. Each has a replica. It's iconic, but so is everything just down the hill on Vine Street at Yucca – the black and gold Avalon Theater...
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The Hollywood Tower over on Franklin Avenue, built in 1929, was a luxury apartment building for the entertainment industry in the thirties. George Raft owned an interest in the building and lived there, but everyone knows it because it's the model for Disney's "Tower of Terror" attractions at the parks in Florida, California, Paris and Tokyo. Each has a replica. It's iconic, but so is everything just down the hill on Vine Street at Yucca – the black and gold Avalon Theater from the twenties, and from 1956, the Capitol Records Tower, designed to look like a stack of records on a turntable with the spindle pointing skyward, surrounded by other bits of Midcentury Modern nonsense and, now, the severe geometry of the present. That's what's under the tower. ~ Monday, September 23, 2019
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