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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Speaking of Triangles (Hoover), this is the Melrose Triangle area where Melrose Ave,, Doheny Dr. and
Santa Monica Blvd. come together, looking northwest, on the border of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. I do
not believe we've seen this photo before, though the location has been covered.
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Great find Martin. Much history and happy memories (for me anyway) there.
That's the Doheny Fountain across the way in Beverly Gardens:
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The building on the extreme upper-right margin is still there (NE corner Doheny and SM Blvd), stripped of ornament, but painted a satisfying shade of barn red. The gas station on the right has given way to surface parking. The point emerging from the center-left margin, then hosting tracks, is now much reconfigured.
Out of shot to the left is a PetCo now. In the late 70s it was Carl's Market, scene of a notoriously gruesome shootout involving machine guns, all for control of the Beverly Hills drug trade.
Behind the photographer is the former site of the much-missed Writers' Guild Theater. I spent hundreds of rapt hours there in the theater's Old Hollywood embrace.
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