Fujica ST San Patrizio - The Pines 1
Now a popular Bieber sighting location, the canyon has a long celebrity history.
From the LA Times:
In 1919, Carman Runyon, a wealthy coal merchant from the East Coast, bought the canyon for a riding and hunting retreat.
With his salary from the 1929 talkie "Song O' My Heart," famed Irish tenor John McCormack bought the canyon from Runyon, built a mansion he dubbed San Patrizio (St. Patrick with a pinch of Mediterranean spice) and added gardens, a reservoir, a pool and tennis courts.
In 1942, George Huntington Hartford II, heir to the A & P Grocery fortune, purchased the estate and renamed it "The Pines." He enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright to design a hotel and country club but the project was quashed by neighborhood opposition.
Lloyd Wright succeeded in building a pool house and a few studio apartments for the Huntington Hartford Foundation colony for artists, writers and composers.
Errol Flynn resided in Hartford's pool house in 1957 and '58 after forfeiting his Mulholland Drive home for back alimony, which accounts for the popular legend that the canyon was Flynn's estate.
Mayor Sam Yorty refused to accept the canyon as a gift from Hartford in 1963 and in 1972, a fire ravaged the canyon leaving only stone foundations and dirt access roads.
Fujica ST705w 35mm SLR on expired Fuji Neopan SS 100 film.
Fujica ST San Patrizio - The Pines 1
Now a popular Bieber sighting location, the canyon has a long celebrity history.
From the LA Times:
In 1919, Carman Runyon, a wealthy coal merchant from the East Coast, bought the canyon for a riding and hunting retreat.
With his salary from the 1929 talkie "Song O' My Heart," famed Irish tenor John McCormack bought the canyon from Runyon, built a mansion he dubbed San Patrizio (St. Patrick with a pinch of Mediterranean spice) and added gardens, a reservoir, a pool and tennis courts.
In 1942, George Huntington Hartford II, heir to the A & P Grocery fortune, purchased the estate and renamed it "The Pines." He enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright to design a hotel and country club but the project was quashed by neighborhood opposition.
Lloyd Wright succeeded in building a pool house and a few studio apartments for the Huntington Hartford Foundation colony for artists, writers and composers.
Errol Flynn resided in Hartford's pool house in 1957 and '58 after forfeiting his Mulholland Drive home for back alimony, which accounts for the popular legend that the canyon was Flynn's estate.
Mayor Sam Yorty refused to accept the canyon as a gift from Hartford in 1963 and in 1972, a fire ravaged the canyon leaving only stone foundations and dirt access roads.
Fujica ST705w 35mm SLR on expired Fuji Neopan SS 100 film.