location, location location
who can guess what & where this is?
give up?.....
it's the ALTO NIDO APARTMENTS on ivar ave.
(aka~ the dark hill)
made famous in the first scene of the classic hollywood film~
SUNSET BOULEVARD
It's the darkest hill in Hollywood – North Ivar Avenue, sitting up over
Hollywood Boulevard. At the top of the hill you'll find the Alto Nido Apartments, 1851 North Ivar –once owned by Marie Dressler. A little-know actress, Elizabeth Short, once lived here – and after her extraordinarily gruesome murder in 1947 she became known as the "Black Dahlia." Her murder was never solved. The building was, of course, used in the 2006 movie "The Black Dahlia."
(ALTO NIDO appears @ 1:27)
In Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), that opens here,
the same apartment building – the failed screenwriter, Joe Gillis (played by William Holden), is in his apartment when two guys knock on the door.
Alto Nido translates as "High Nest."
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