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Gower Gulch (Los Angeles, California) | place with historical importance

USA / California / West Hollywood / Los Angeles, California
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Name of shopping center that adopted the nickname of the area of Hollywood known as Gower Gulch.

Both sides of Gower Street were lined with small movie studios in the teens, 20s and 30s. Their main output was low budget western fair. The area got it's name from the large numbers of actors dressed in cowboy dress that loitered around the studios hoping to pick up a day's work.

On the east side of Gower, the studios were bought by the Cohn brothers and consolidated as Columbia Pictures. On the west side they were torn down for housing and this small stip center anchored by a Denny's.
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Coordinates:   34°5'51"N   118°19'22"W

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  • Dennis Dickens - Universalstonec (guest)
    Area marked as Gower Gulch, is the second location Universal Studios Hollywood. The studio move occurred in 1913, after a fire which which destroyed the Travern on the first Nestor Studios, Universal moved across the street from the Universal - Nestor Plant. Al Christie working for Universal replaced the raven with new structures, the sign about the new structure became "Nestor Comedies" and Christie Film Company (Christie comedies an brand released by Universal. In 1914, The Universal Hollywood plant (1913) moved to the newly constructed Universal City, The south Sunset property became L-KO Studios and the Century Studios. Motion Picture World 1913
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