Evening@The Barn
Evening @ The Barn
We’re back with…
‘HOORAY FOR EDENDALE!”
- Selig-Polyscope, Keystone, Pathé, Norbig, Mixville! -
The season’s “Evening @ the Barn” opener
happens this Wednesday, October 14, 2009
at 7:30 p.m.
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After this “Evening @ the Barn,” you will know more than most folks about filmaking activities in LA (before Cecil B. DeMille had ever heard of a Barn to rent in some little Southern California town called Hollywood).
Hollywood Heritage board member and author Robert S. Birchard will share the origins of what is known worldwide as the “Hollywood” film industry. And Hollywood Heritage secretary Marc Wanamaker once again dives into his vast collection of historic photos from motion picture history, pulling out gems to illustrate Mr. Birchard’s presentation.
 Keystone Film Company building, Edendale |
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As Bob Birchard describes it: “When the movies came to Southern California — they didn’t come to Hollywood. For several years the center of motion picture production in Los Angeles was the district of Edendale along what was then Allesandro Street and is now Glendale Boulevard. Within a few blocks were the west coast studios of the Selig Polyscope company, the New York Motion Picture company and its famed Keystone brand, the American branch of the French film company Pathé, the Norbig rental studio, and Mixville – the lot where Tom Mix made many of his Fox westerns in the late 1910s and early 1920s.
“LA’s first entertainment district began in the spring of 1909 when director Francis Boggs rented the grandly named, but rather unimposing Edendale Hall and several surrounding lots to establish a permanent west coast home for the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company. Boggs promptly left town on a location jaunt that took him and his troupe to Yosemite, Oakland, and the Hood River Valley in Oregon–but he returned to LA in the fall and began producing pictures on the Edendale lot in October 1909–a century ago.”
A brief article on Boggs, by Bob Birchard, appeared in the Summer 1999 Hollywood Heritage Newsletter, which you can access by clicking here.
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Hooray for Edendale! ”Evening @ the Barn” will be held (Across from the Hollywood Bowl)
2100 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90068
Hollywood Heritage Members: $5, Non-Members: $10
Doors open 7 p.m., show starts 7:30 p.m.
Please note that “Evening @ the Barn” admission prices remain the same for Hollywood Heritage members: $5. But the non-member price has been raised by two dollars to $10.
Admission sold only at the door. Wednesday October 14th, 2009 in the
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***REMINDER: The Hollywood Heritage Museum has a capacity of only 120 persons. Once the capacity is reached, we will not be able to seat anyone else, due to fire regulations.
Future 2009 Evenings @ the Barn” will be:
Wednesday November 11: Veteran’s Day commemoration, highlighting Eddie Cantor. Members of the Cantor family will attend.
Wednesday December 9: Bob Birchard presentation on historic Universal Studios.
Please arrive early so you won’t be disappointed!
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