Donald Clinton Archive/Los Feliz Observer
Like the houses of the Boos brothers, this big beautiful place at 5470 Los Feliz Blvd (southeast corner of Western) was paid for by
mashed potatoes and Jello... Clifford Clinton of Clifton's lived here from 1936 to 1949. A bomb once went off in the kitchen....
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The house became L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument #997 last year.
Click
HERE for a brief but highly enjoyable history of the house by son Don Clinton in the fall 2010 issue of the
Los
Feliz Observer (scroll down to page 6). The story includes references to the noir-era bombings we've covered here
before:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=950).
Charles J. Fisher