Title supplied by cataloger. In 1918, the Brothers Warner (Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack) bought 10.2-acres of land in Hollywood from the Beesmyer family at a cost of $25,000. In 1919 they built a giant stage nicknamed The Barn, which measured 50-feet wide by 100- feet long. This stage was torn down in 1923 and was replaced by a collection of smaller stages and buildings. In 1925, Sam Warner started KFWB radio station on the lot. In 1937 brother-in-law, Harry Charnas, opened Sunset Bowling Center behind the old executive offices of Warner Bros. Studios. The Sunset Bowling Center was part of a "sports palace" that also contained badminton courts and a skating rink. The 52-lane bowling alley was the largest in the world at that time, with pin boys living in the loft of the building; it operated for ten years. In 1954, Paramount bought the site to provide television production facilities for KTLA, which moved to the site in 1958. Gene Autry bought KTLA in 1964, and leased the space from Paramount for three years, after which he bought the property for a whopping $5 million dollars. In 1982, an investment-banking firm bought the lot and KTLA, and three years later, sold out to the Tribune Company. In January of 2008, Hudson Capital purchased thethe building for an astounding $130 million dollars. In 1977, the building was declared Historic-Cultural Monument No. 180 by the city of Los Angeles. Nighttime view of the KMPC & KTLA production facility at 5858 W. Sunset Boulevard in April 1976. The onramp for the 101 Hollywood Freeway (left) is nearby.
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1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm. Photographic color slides
Radio stations Radio stations--Call signs Television stations Electric signs Street lighting Express highways Streets Central business districts Neoclassicism (Architecture) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) United States Highway 101 Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Night photographs
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