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Title: Hollywood home demolished
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Martin, Bob
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Steven and Elona Anthony's home would be razed to build a Hollywood television and film museum that never came to pass. Anonymous contributors raised bail money to free him from a 1 yr. jail term following his conviction of resisting arrest and battery against two sheriff's deputies who came to evict him and his family. On the eve of his court appearance, Edmond De La Patie, Vice-President at Warner Bros. Studio and a Hollywood Museum official, charged that the fight over the Anthonys' eviction might have been Communist inspired, to which Mr. Anthony replied, "It's more character assassination. I hate and despise pinkos. The American Legion, the Baptist Ministers and four Young Republican groups are backing me. They ought to know if I'm a Communist."
The foundation and scattered hillside-debris are all that's left of the Anthonys' Hollywood property at 6655 Alta Loma Terrace. Photograph dated April 16, 1964.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074471
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d036_f1_i13
CARL0000077549
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43482
Subject: Anthony, Steven--Homes and haunts
Eminent domain--California--Los Angeles
Demolition--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Lampposts--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Fairfield Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Alta Loma Terrace (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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