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Old Posted Jul 6, 2014, 3:18 AM
Lwize Lwize is offline
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Originally Posted by corriganville View Post
The Harold Lloyd Movie Ranch used to be there.
That's cool!

I read a little further in the book of Westwood (parts found on Google), and discovered Janss Investment Co courted film studios to build in Westwood, and Lloyd and Fox built. Part of Lloyd's ranch was sold after the Great Depression to LA Unified Schools, which built Emerson Jr High school in 1937 (covering 10 acres behind the Mormon Temple).

This aerial was noted as "1928" in the Westwood book, but it already shows the Emerson school, so it's probably 1938:


(movielocationsplus.com)

The property was purchased in 1923 where John Wolfskill (Wolfskill Farm) had built a home in 1913, before selling 3,000+ acres in 1919 for the development of Westwood.
I'm going to guess the frat house on the Sanborn map is Wolfskill's 1913 home.

Last edited by Lwize; Jul 6, 2014 at 3:50 AM.
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