Franklin Hills | |
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 Franklin Hills neighborhood sign located on St. George Street at Tracy Street | |
  Franklin Hills Location in Northeast Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: 34°06′25″N118°16′37″W / 34.10694°N 118.27694°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP Code | 90027 |
| Area codes | 323 |
Franklin Hills is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. It is home to one Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Franklin Hills is a residential neighborhood, set in the hills east of Los Feliz Village. The Los Angeles Times described it as a "diverse community" with a "collage of architectural styles". [1]
Franklin Hills is home to the Shakespeare Bridge. The ravine over which the bridge crosses was once a perennial stream called Arroyo de la Sacatela. To the east of the bridge is the Franklin Hills public stairway system, which provides pedestrian linkages among the curvy streets, a series of 14 staircases originally built in the 1920s to provide hillside homeowners pedestrian access to the trolley lines below.
Prospect Studios is on Talmadge Street. Opened in 1915 as the Vitagraph Studio, the lot later became the Warner Brothers Studios East Hollywood Annex, then home of the ABC Television Center and local affiliate KABC, finally becoming part of the Walt Disney Company in 1996.
Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric Avenue and St. George Street [2] during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their new animation studio, located a few blocks away at 2719 Hyperion Avenue [2] (at the intersection of Hyperion and Griffith Park Boulevard).
Franklin Hills is bounded on the north by Franklin Avenue and St. George Street, on the west by Talmadege Street, on the south by Fountain Avenue, and on the east by Tracy Street and Hyperion Avenue. [3]
Franklin Hills is bordered by Los Feliz Village on the west, [4] Silver Lake on the east, and East Hollywood on the south.
Franklin Hills is within the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council. [4] Section E comprises Franklin Hills and a few neighboring blocks on the west. [5] [6]
There is one public school within the Franklin Hills boundaries:
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood.
The Walt Disney Studios, located in Burbank, California, United States, serves as the corporate headquarters for The Walt Disney Company media conglomerate. The 51-acre studio lot also contains several sound stages, a backlot, and other filmmaking production facilities for Walt Disney Studios's motion picture production. The complex also houses the offices for the company's many divisions, with the exception of Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios, which remains on its namesake lot in nearby Century City as tenants of Fox Corporation.
Roy Oliver Disney was an American businessman who co-founded The Walt Disney Company with his younger brother Walt Disney. He also served as the company's first CEO and was the father of Roy E. Disney.
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Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott. In 1907, the Los Angeles Water Department built the Silver Lake Reservoir, named for LA Water Commissioner Herman Silver, giving the neighborhood its name. The area is now known for its architecturally significant homes, independently owned businesses, diverse restaurants, painted staircases, and creative environment.
Brown Derby was a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, California. The first and best known was shaped like a derby hat, an iconic image that became synonymous with the Golden Age of Hollywood. It was opened by Wilson Mizner in 1926. The chain was started by Robert H. Cobb and Herbert K. Somborn in the 1920s. The original Brown Derby restaurants had closed or had been converted to other uses by the 1980s, though a Disney-backed Brown Derby national franchising program revived the brand in the 21st century. It is often incorrectly thought that the Brown Derby was a single restaurant, and the Wilshire Boulevard and Hollywood branches are frequently confused.
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The Grand Avenue Project was a government lead revitalization effort for the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles on Grand Avenue and centered around Grand Park, its surrounding county government buildings and its parking lots. It was administered by the Grand Avenue Authority, a joint powers authority consisting of Los Angeles County and City. The first task was to improve the streetscape of Grand Avenue. The second element was to upgrade the 12-acre (4.9 ha) Grand Park in 2012 with a refurbished fountains, lawn furniture, walkways and the planting of native gardens. And lastly, constructing several residential buildings, including a two-tower complex on the southeast corner of Grand Avenue and 1st Street, designed by Frank Gehry.
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Herman Schultheis was a Walt Disney Studios photographer and technician in the Special Effects Department best known for his work on the feature films Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi.
Franklin Hills is a diverse yet neighborhly community displaying a collage of architectural styles.
The brothers commissioned a pair of matching homes on a hillside near their new studio... Walt lived in the one on the corner of St. George Street and Lyric Avenue, while Roy took the twin to the east.
Franklin Hills and a few other neighboring blocks comprise District E
Franklin Hills, along with a few more of the streets lying directly to the West of it ("Franklin Hills adj.") makes up District E
newly married actress Zoe Saldana has listed her Franklin Hills home for sale with an asking price of $1.2 million
The home of musician/producer Joey Waronker, this 1934 Spanish in Franklin Hills is loaded with beautiful period details
"I'm 72 and I don't look a day over 71!" she proclaimed during an interview at her Franklin Hills home, a simply furnished two-story house that she's owned for nearly 40 years.
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