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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
I'm still confused about the WGA having it.
Do you know when the building was demolished?
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OK, now I'm confused. If AMPAS didn't move out until 1975, maybe the two organizations shared it until then (I was away from LA during those years) and the WGA had it exclusively after '75 when I would have known it.
I
think it was demolished soon after it was shut down (I guess the neighbors complained; we
were parking on the residential streets). With only the conditional permit, the WGA had no hope of saving it.
Here it is as the AMPAS theater in '51:
http://hollywoodphotographs.com/deta...n-melrose-ave/
And there's this
snippet from "Crossroads of the Stars"
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Cinema Treasures
I'm perplexed that neither of the above links even mention the WGA. I wasn't surprised the AMPAS site didn't, they'd have no reason to.
21st annual Oscars ceremony:
ej sopas via
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Anyway, it was a lovely place, more clubhouse than anything else.
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