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Lost Hollywood Buried in the New

Karen Kaye
2 min readMar 16, 2021

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What has become of Hollywood?

Today, as we look back we will take a look at old and new Hollywood. As more and more of Hollywood lingers in the past, as builders continue to build and take away what part of the beauty of Hollywood’s history.

The lasting memories are there you just have to search for them and know where they are hidden. The original Hollywood as you know is gone. Hollywood studios have long moved away from Hollywood or hidden on streets that only locals know.

Desilu Studios — Hollywood

The “Desilu-Gower”, which was formerly known as “RKO Hollywood Studios”, “Desilu-Cahuenga”, and “Desilu-Culver”, formerly known as RKO Culver City Studios. In the photo above and the video below you can see a Westinghouse promotion from 1958.

In the video you will actually hear Desi Arnaz describe the various studio locations of Desilu from Hollywood to Culver City.

The Hollywood studios of Desilu was located at 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd, which is now Red Studios Hollywood, formerly Desilu Cahuenga Studio and Ren-Mar Studios, is a rental studio located at 846…

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Karen Kaye
Karen Kaye

Written by Karen Kaye

Hollywood Happenings is an on-line community newspaper, created, copyrighted and trademarked in 2003. I am an award winning sports writer, Red Carpet interviews

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