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Originally Posted by odinthor
LA Times, June 6, 1926
But it's looking to me as if this French Village never got built, and the pic is of the one up towards the Cahuenga Pass. |
Did the Hollywood Freeway construction through Cahuenga Pass swallow and digest this faux "French Village"? Is anything left of it today? At least some of Charlie Chaplin's "English Village" studio near Sunset/La Brea survives as the Henson complex, complete with a statue of Kermit as the Little Tramp.
Was the nearby "Rocky & Bullwinkle" statue preserved on the Sunset Strip? The Rocky & Bullwinkle show appealed to both kids & adults back in the early '60s, a proto Simpsons with a "Mad Magazine" subversive satire vibe. All the smart kids read Mad Magazine and watched Rocky & Bullwinkle back then. The normal kids watched Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones. The Flintstones was a rip-off of the Honeymooners. Never did get Soupy Sales, but some kids watched him.