Some of the Sights I Remember Seeing When Living in
Los Angeles and Hollywood during the 1940s & 1950s

Los Angeles Main Public Library                                    Downtown Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Car Passing by Echo Park                 Pantages Theater, Hollywood Blvd.                  Wallich's Music City and NBC Radio Studios             Red Car with Hollywood Hills in the Background 1940s Hollywood - Exciting Time to Be a Kid Love at First Sight - Norma Jean Salina Live radio - Couldn't believe what he said! Norma Got Me a Blind Date - So She Could... Zelma Wanted to Sharpen My Pencil First Date - First Kiss? LA's Very 1st Stereo Radio Broadcast This new thing called "Television" Ken Murray's Blackouts - Marie Wilson Chet Huntley - My Favorite Customer 1st Job & All Those Pretty Girls! The Starlight Ballbroom Mystery Maybe I Shouldn't Have Dropped Out Fun with MAGIC High School Dropout to High School Teacher? Midnight on the Ocean - Not a Streetcar Was in Sight... More on 1940s Hollywood I moved with my mom and 2nd step-dad (Bryson Perry Hall) to Los Angeles in 1942. My step-dad got a job as a buyer at the Broadway Department Store in Downtown LA and we lived in a duplex on a hill overlooking Echo Park and Aimee Semple McPhersons' Angelus Temple. Sadly, however, they split up and Bryson went into the army. Mom and I moved to a very small apartment on the edge of Hollywood near the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Vermont Ave. I remember going to Virgil Junior High School, but transferring to Le Conte Junior High after discovering what a tough institution Virgil was. Subsequently I went to Hollywood High School briefly, before dropping out to conquer the world.