M-G-M Lot 2 (Culver City, California)

USA / California / Culver City / Culver City, California
 place with historical importance, historical layer / disappeared object, historic site
Now a housing development, this is the 27 acre former site of MGM's Lot #2. In it were such things as city streets, western forts as well as a real railroad spur that was used to load up train cars when they shot on location.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mgm
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Coordinates:   34°0'47"N   118°24'20"W

Comments

  • Yes in Culver City, as a child could recall coming out of St.Augustine after Mass, seeing the flames of action of filming down at MGM, yet never recall getting to tour the Studio grounds, but had relatives who made films there, and recall the old movies made from MGM, and am 70 years old, but grew up in Culver City, California, and went to the Movies there, School there, and Culver City was one of the citys lived for 8 years of my early childhood, Sincerely Gloria J. White, adopted niece to "Gloria Youngblood, who was in Trade Winds, Goldwyn Follies, and Adventures of Marco Polo..and dated Rudy Vallee.
  • Minor corrections. MGM Lot 2 was only 27 acres in area. Lot 1 (Main lot across Overland Avenue, now Sony Pictures) is the 37 acre parcel. Also, the yellowed map area includes the residential property on the north side of Arizona Avenue which was never part of the studio lot.
  • Yes, you are right. The 37 acres is a typo-now corrected. However, if you zoom in closely you will see that the the northwest boundary does not include the northwest residences on Arizona, but bounds the southeast side of Arizona. This depiction comes from both official MGM sources and plat maps of the of Culver City.
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