#outpost estates

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House in David Lynch's Lost Highway

Outpost Estates, Los Angeles - March 2026

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The Outpost Building, an art deco landmark located at 6715 Hollywood Blvd, is featured in Intimate Stranger (1991) starring Debbie Harry.

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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with the ‘OUTPOST’ Sign in the Background.

Outpost Estates is a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, consisting of about 450 homes. It is bordered by Mulholland Drive to the north, Franklin Avenue to the south, Runyon Canyon Park to the west, and Hollywood Heights and the Hollywood Bowl to the east.

In 1924, Charles E. Toberman acquired the property. He kept the Outpost name and developed the property as one of several 1920s Hollywood luxury residential neighborhoods. The area became known as an affluent area with many rich and famous residents.Homes had to be designed in Spanish, Mediterranean or California modern style, have red tile roofs, plenty of patios for "outdoor living," and be approved by architectural committee before being built. Most of the original houses have been preserved, and Lower Outpost looks much like it did in the 1920s.

In the 1920s, in the hills above the development, a large sign spelled out "Outpost" in red neon letters 30 feet high. It was intended to compete with the Hollywoodland sign, (which later became the Hollywood sign. At the time, it was the largest neon sign in the United States. The Outpost sign was dismantled during World War II, and the wreckage of the sign was left in place, buried in the weeds. Even the original foundation and electrical junction boxes survived. The twisted remains were identified by hikers in 2002.

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(Photo Source: canyon-news.com)

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The Hollywood Home of Dolores Del Rio

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Everybody knows the Hollywood sign, but did you know the Hills once sported three such signs, each advertising a different real estate development in the 1920s?

The three signs advertised Hollywoodland, Whitley Heights, and Outpost Estates.

And while only the Hollywood sign is standing today, you can still find the metal carnage, a mangle of steel girders, that was once the Outpost Estates sign - rusting in the dirt.

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The Bela Lugosi House at 2227 Outpost Drive

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Marie Wilson, comic actress, occasional pin-up, and star of Ken Murray’s Blackouts and My Friend Irma, lived in this nice house at 7050 La Presa in Outpost Estates.

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The entrance to the old Paul Douglas home at the top of Outpost Estates