We like basements, in general. Sometimes we like to take a break from our own basement here to visit other people’s basements, because you just never know. And the other day, visiting a friend, we came across this silent footage of Hollywood in the 1920s, shot by legendary director William Desmond Taylor, a Hollywood movie in himself. This footage shows the bizarre architecture that could only have been built in a town functioning on fantasy. Most of it is gone now – razed to make way for a parking lot, a strip mall, or a bland condo tower. It’s sad to realize that if it were 80 years ago, you might have been able to order dinner inside those giant white elephants at Hollywood & Highland, and look out onto the Boulevard through the windows in their eyes. (Watch the clip)

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