Oct 7, 2025
Barbara Stanwyck is seen turning off Vine Street onto Yucca toward Argyle Avenue in the William Castle film The Night Walker (1964).
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Barbara Stanwyck is seen turning off Vine Street onto Yucca toward Argyle Avenue in the William Castle film The Night Walker (1964).
The Radio KFWB Building is long gone
The southwest corner of Argyle and Franklin Avenue as seen in the film the Black Marble (1980).
The Hollywood Freeway as seen in The Black Marble (1980).
Among the visible landmarks are the Castle Argyle apartment building on the left and the Hollywood Tower apartment buidling on the right.
The vintage building at 1608 N. Argyle where I recorded my new audiobook.
A midcentury dive slated for demolition in the shadow of the Capitol Records Building. It is seen in the William Castle film the Night Walker (1964).
De Mille Manor on Argyle Avenue was the location where Cecil B. DeMille purchased a house for his mother when she moved to town.
After she died in 1919, he developed this beautiful apartment building and named it De Mille Manor.
It is an impressive Hollywood landmark that nobody ever mentions.
Jane Russell filming Hot Blood (1956) at the corner of Franklin and Argyle.
The corner looks the same albeit much dirtier.
The Hollywood Tower can be seen in the first photo.
The Castle Argyle is visible in the background of the next set.
The Capitol Records tower can be seen under construction in the background behind the freeway overpass.
And the Mobil station is still in the exact same place.
People always lament how much Hollywood has changed.
But I marvel over the exact opposite.
67 years after this movie was made, it’s incredible how much it looks the same.