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Avalon (or Avalon Hollywood) is a historic nightclub in Hollywood, California, located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N. Vine Street. It has previously been known as The Hollywood Playhouse, The WPA Federal Theatre, El Capitan Theatre, The Jerry Lewis Theatre, The Hollywood Palace and The Palace. It has a capacity of 1,500, and is located across the street from the Capitol Records Building.

History[edit]

The Hollywood Playhouse[edit]

Originally known as The Hollywood Playhouse, the theater at 1735 N. Vine opened for the first time on January 24, 1927.^[1] It was designed in the Spanish Baroque style by the architectural team of Henry L. Gogerty (1894–1990) and Carl Jules Weyl (1890–1948) in 1926–1927.^[2]

Federal Theatre Project[edit]

The El Capitan Theatre Later, the theatre hosted numerous CBS Radio Network programs, including Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks show and Lucille Ball 's My Favorite Husband program. In the 1940s, the theatre was renamed The El Capitan Theatre, and was used for a long-running live burlesque variety show called Ken Murray's Blackouts. I am originally from Le Mans, France but I have been living in New York City for many years as I am a dual citizen, and I feel very lucky to have been enriched by both cultures. Fanny For El Capitan Macos Node Wathc File For Cahnges Skype For Business For Mac Catalina Canon Ip90 Driver For El Capitan Get Iphoto For El Capitan Equalizer For Mac Catalina Download Macos Unlocker For Vmware Workstation Ms Office For El Capitan Steam For Mac Mojave Bittorrent For Mac Os Catalina 10.15.

During the Great Depression, the Hollywood Theatre operated under the Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration, and was a venue for government-sponsored theatrical events.^[1]

The El Capitan Theatre[edit]

Later, the theatre hosted numerous CBS Radio Network programs, including Fanny Brice's Baby Snooks show and Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband program.

In the 1940s, the theatre was renamed The El Capitan Theatre, and was used for a long-running live burlesquevariety show called Ken Murray's Blackouts.^[3]

In the 1950s, still under the name of El Capitan, the theatre became a television studio, and it was from a set on its stage that Richard Nixon delivered his famous 'Checkers speech' on September 23, 1952. This event is often mistakenly said (especially on the Internet) to have taken place at the El Capitan Theatre, nearby on Hollywood Boulevard, though that theater was never a television studio, and in 1952 was operating as a movie house called the Paramount Theatre.

The theatre was also home to The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Lawrence Welk Show, and This is Your Life.^[3]

The Jerry Lewis Theatre[edit]

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television renovated the building spending $400,000. Jerry Lewis used the theater/radio studio for his weekly Saturday night television program (September–December 1963)[1], and appropriately renamed the theater The Jerry Lewis Theatre. The stage had an existing rope counterweight fly system. The backstage second floor fly weights are located stage right. Located stage left is the double-load in doors that the stage alley connected and leads to and from Vine Street. All stage scenery was moved in and out of the stage load-in entrance.

Opposite this stage load-in door was the 'star dressing room' which was completely rebuilt for Jerry Lewis. The first floor dressing room had a small front bar with a mirrored back bar, an upright piano, and a sofa lounge area. A circular spiral metal stairway lead to the second floor, a make-up mirrored counter desk, with a Hollywood bed/couch. The adjacent toilet suite was equipped with a wall mounted telephone for Lewis to conduct business while using the facilities and his make-up area. The front stage apron, in front of the proscenium was extended by filling (pouring concrete) into the original orchestra pit. A stage centered 4' wide concrete camera ramp connected the stage apron with a 6' deep camera aisle against the auditorium back wall. The 'level' concrete ramp and stage apron supported the Chapman Crane required for video taping talent and performers.

The TV engineer control booth was situated on the left rear auditorium side facing the stage (which would be camera left). Behind the control booth was the video tape control room where Ampex video tape machines were located. A Vine Street access door provided entry and load-in for equipment. In the auditoriums' right side (camera right) the concrete level floor, connecting the apron, was filled in to the back auditorium wall. This became the orchestra/band area. William 'Bill' Morris III was the show's art director. He positioned a host platform on the left side stage, which had hydraulic lifts, during the course of Lewis conducting interviews with guests, the 'home base' desk seating area could be raised 8 feet (up in the air above the stage floor).

The balcony audience could view the host and talent and the Chapman Crane Camera could be at eye level with talent. Stage center was reserved as a performance area. New audience seating was located either side of the center camera aisle. The electricians control area was balcony located. ABC completely rewired for all electrical and video and sound equipment and soundproof booths. Offices on the Vine Street front second floor were renovated for the production/Producers office complex. A staircase entrance located on the front left outdoor lobby led to the second floor offices.

The box office, on the right of the outdoor lobby, open daily for the ABC Page staff to distribute audience pass-tickets for The Jerry Lewis Show and all of ABC's Talmadge Lot TV shows, including the Lawrence Welk show and game shows, The entire building's exterior and interior were freshly finished and painted, new carpets in the main lobby, center staircase up to the cleaned up balcony floor, refurbished balcony seating.

The Hollywood Palace[edit]

Following the cancelation of the Lewis show, ABC renamed the building The Hollywood Palace. Launched in January 1964, The Hollywood Palace was a one-hour weekly variety series with a rotating roster of headliner guest hosts. Bing Crosby served as m.c. in the debut show, the series finale and more than thirty episodes in between. Other hosts included Liberace, Jimmy Durante, Ginger Rogers, Victor Borge, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin, Van Johnson, Betty Hutton, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Judy Garland, Alice Faye & Phil Harris, Groucho Marx and Louis Armstrong [2]. The program was a huge success and continued for more than seven years (194 episodes), concluding on February 4, 1970.

ABC continued to use the studio-building, taping replacement programming-series, and other TV broadcast programs. (ABC relocated the Lawence Welk Syndicated Show from their ABC-lot stage E back to the Palace in the mid 1970s, until the Welk Group moved the show to CBS Television City for two of its latter seasons.) The Hollywood Palace television series was an ABC-TV West Coast production inaugurated by the network to compete with the Sunday Night CBS-TV Ed Sullivan show. ABC approached Nick Vanoff and Bill Harbach, open for their suggesting a prestige variety hour format. In response to the network, Vanoff and Harbach asked Bing Crosby to be primary host for a variety-vaudeville format program, and to break up his hosting assignments with notable Hollywood movie celebrities alternating host assignments. With Vanoff/Harbach's New York based production affiliation with the Perry Como TV series, the network bought the variety concept as a high-end mid-season replacement.

Since ABC had cancelled The Jerry Lewis Show, the studio facility had been completely renovated. The Network needed something to fulfill their long-term lease for the stage-studio space. ABC-TV never wanted to be burdened with property, preferring to rent a facility. Zodiac Productions established by Vanoff and Harbach brought together their same staff that they had put together four months previously taping a Bing Crosby Color Special (Aug 1963) for CBS-TV at NBC-Burbank. Jim Trittipo, as art director, Hub Braden, as his assistant art director, Rita Scott, as associate producer, Jerry McPhie as production manager, Les Brown and his musicians as musical direction team, including a writing team and talent management team. Trittipo established the opening format for the show by designing an opening 'look' setting, which, after the Host introduction and musical segment opened the program, the original set would transform—on camera—into a new stage setting for the next performer and act!

By not going into a commercial break, sometimes the second act and setting would transform into a third act altered stage set transformation. This became the novelty for the variety hour. And made the audience stick with the tube by not switching channels during the normal network scheduled commercial break. Because the producers had Las Vegas and Reno showroom acts available to import for the variety acts, the producers were able to fly these performers into LA-Burbank for the show. The adjacent parking lot became an extra bonus for the show to book in high-flying wire walking and aerialist & trapeze performers, as well as animal acts which required large set-up space.

These types of acts were not possible on Ed Sullivan's CBS show. Frank Sinatra's lone visit as host paired him with jazz legend Count Basie. Sammy Davis jr. was a frequent guest performer and Dean Martin's two hosting assignments in 1964 led to his own NBC-TV variety series. Vanoff and Harbach allowed Martin to come to the studio on tape day with very little, if any, rehearsal. Never rehearsing musical segments, he sang numbers cold while the band played keep-up! Rowan and Martin, ditto! The Palace was a spring board for many personalities getting a series shot. Fred Astaire hosted four shows which opened negotiations with NBC-TV for their own Fred Astaire Emmy Winning Special. The program revived many show business careers.

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The network converted the Hollywood Palace studio from a black and white camera studio into their first West Coast Color Broadcast facility during the 1965 summer lay-off. On September 18, 1965, the Palace initiated their broadcasting into all Color. The Lawrence Welk Hour TV show moved from the ABC-Talmadge lot alternating their taping schedule with the Hollywood Palace. ABC installed color cameras and renovated the Welk Stage to color during this period. The Welk show moved back to the ABC lot after their 1966–67 season of shows. Vanoff and Harbach produced the King Sisters Variety Show as a pilot in August 1967. This pilot sold and was slotted into the studio taping each week in front of the Palace's end week schedule. The studio facility was in full use.

The Palace[edit]

In 1978, ABC sold the theatre to private businessman Dennis Lidtke, who restored it and reopened it four years later with an abridged name, The Palace.The theater's audience seating area was removed. The audience raked floor was leveled to flush (same level) out from the lobby entrance area to the stage apron. Bands were located on the stage area. A double staircase was installed against the auditoriums back wall with an open arch which connected to the lobby staircase first landing, for balcony access, where tables and seating were arranged for balcony viewing of the band and dance floor below. One early production using the revamped facility was the 1983 Sheena EastonHBO concert special, Sheena Easton Live at the Palace, Hollywood. It was the venue for the performance portion of Bruce Willis' ACE nominated HBO special 'The Return of Bruno,' which was directed by Jim Yukich. It was written and produced by Bruce Willis, Paul Flattery and Jim Yukich.

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Avalon (as The Palace) is featured prominently in the film Against All Odds.

The punk band Ramones played their 2263rd and final show here on August 6, 1996. It was recorded for billboard live for the album We're Outta Here!. The building has hosted the American Music Awards.^[4]

Avalon[edit]

1735 Vine was purchased by Hollywood Entertainment Partners in September 2002, and renamed Avalon. Since 2004, the venue has been open to the public on Friday's for CONTROL and Saturday's 'Avaland'.^[5][6] 'Control' is focused around dubstep, Trap and Electro, while 'Avaland' brings in the bigger named DJs, mainly playing house music, trance and techno music,. Giant Club helps coordinate, run, and promote these events.^[7] One of the owners, Jonathan Lyons used to own and operate the original Avalon located in Boston, Massachusetts at 15 Lansdowne Street in a historic building of its own, right behind Fenway Park. The original Avalon and its sister club Axis were closed and demolished in 2007 to make way for The House of Blues.^[8]

Many top EDM artists and deejays have played at Avalon(Avaland) since it opened, including Tiesto,^[9]Marcus Schulz,^[10]Sasha,^[11]Digweed^[12] and Paul Oakenfold.^[13]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Avalon Hollywood: History'. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
2. ^Pacific Coast Architecture Database: Palace Theater
3. ^ ^ab'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2006-12-08. Retrieved 2007-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2007-02-11. Retrieved 2007-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2012-06-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2012-06-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ^http://www.giantclub.com/avalon/^{[permanent dead link]}
8. ^'A LOOK AT BOSTON'S MUSIC VENUES THROUGH THE YEARS'. mmmmaven.com. 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
9. ^'Review: Tiesto: In Search of Sunrise'. Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
10. ^'AVALON presents NYE2020 | Markus Schulz [Open to Close] | AVALON Hollywood'. avalonhollywood.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
11. ^Mixes, Global Sets Dj. 'Sasha – Live at Avalon, Hollywood – 26-APR-2014'. Global-Sets.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
12. ^'John Digweed'. Resident Advisor. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
13. ^'AVALON presents Paul Oakenfold | AVALON Hollywood'. avalonhollywood.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.

External links[edit]

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'Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?' demands the 'Happy Man' played by Abdul Salaam El Razzac in 1990's Pretty Woman. As the character implies, anything can happen in Tinseltown whether it's in real life or make-believe on film. Since the early 1900s, Britannica verifies, thousands of actors have flocked to this iconic neighborhood of Los Angeles in hopes of making it big. And when they don't, well, that's Hollywood for you. Only the strong can survive the ups-and-downs of the film industry that keeps America on the cutting edge of stardom with anticipation. As the media has shown, the acting profession can be quite volatile as dreams are frequently dashed.

Hollywood certainly has had lots of stories of heartbreaks and tragedies that pair nicely with the trappings of fame. That is no doubt why Hollywood makes such a great place for ghost stories. No wonder people like ghost hunter Scott Michaels are on hand take tourists on a 'Dearly Departed' tour and show them such intriguing items as the car actress Jayne Mansfield died in and other 'tragical artifacts.' And if you too have a dark love for haunted Hollywood, read on to learn about some of the more intriguing landmarks this famous, and sometimes infamous, suburb of glitz and glamour has to offer.

Hollywoodland: a real estate developers dream

Hollywood's first dreamers were its founders, Harvey and Daeida Wilcox. U.S. History says the Wilcox's moved to Los Angeles in the 1880s and purchased 160 acres of land. Daeida Wilcox had heard of Hollywood, Ohio and thought that would make a nice name for the Wilcox ranch. When the ranch failed, Harvey platted a town instead. Hollywood had a population of 500 by 1900. At least that's one story. History explains that in 1902, real estate developer H.J. Whitley, aka the 'Father of Hollywood,' showed up and opened the Hollywood Hotel (now the Dolby Theater), thereby officially establishing the community. Either way, Hollywood incorporated in 1903 but soon relegated itself to just being a trendy Los Angeles neighborhood.

Next, in 1907 according to Hollywood Sign, a Chicago film company came west because California offered better weather. Besides, filmmakers were sick of Thomas Edison's studios back east which were hard to work with. By 1911, Hollywood's first film studio had been built at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, and within a year there were around 15 such places in operation. Oh, and about the famous Hollywood sign on Mount Lee: it was originally erected in 1923, as Hollywoodland, to advertise a new subdivision. It would be twenty years before the Chamber of Commerce removed the last four letters, restored the rest, and made the sign one of the most famous landmarks in America.

The ghosts of Grauman's Chinese Theater

Sid Grauman opened the historic Chinese Theater in 1927, according to the theater's website. Someone accidentally stepped in the wet cement in front of the new theater, and the idea to have celebrities put their handprints, footprints, and signatures in the sidewalk out front was born. An Open Suitcase verifies that there are now nearly 200 concrete squares dedicated to the stars. Now known as TCL Chinese Theatre, Grauman's has been such a hotspot for movie premieres and other events over time that it is no wonder that a few spirits hang around. The most unusual of them, says The Culture Trip, is Annabell, a child who loves playing around the red curtains on the stage.

But there are more substantial ghosts at the theater, including a stagehand named Fritz who allegedly hung himself above the stage. A more reliable story is that of elderly actor Victor Kilian, whom the New York Times reported was found beaten to death in his apartment near the theater in 1979. Kilian's ghost has been seen wandering around in front of Grauman's, perhaps looking for his killer. Britannica blogger Laurie Jacobson, who toured the theater in 2010, witnessed a large drape 'violently shaking' and said employees have heard buzzers sounding from some private rooms once used to entertain special guests. But the rooms have been sealed off for years.

Actors who haunt the Roosevelt Hotel

Sid Grauman did more than build his Chinese Theater. He also played a heavy hand in building the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which also premiered in 1927 and hosted the very first Academy Awards. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford also financed the hotel, which towers 12 stories with 300 rooms. Notable guests of the past include film legends Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, as well as Marilyn Monroe (pictured) who actually lived on the property for two years and shot her first commercial there. Actor Montgomery Clift also lived at the hotel for three months, according to the Los Angeles Times, while shooting From Here to Eternity in 1953. Even in death, neither Monroe nor Clift seem able to leave the Roosevelt.

Haunted Rooms reports that Monroe's spirit habitually haunts her old suite, #1200, and has appeared in the mirror there. As for Clift, the actor's ghost brushes up against people, plays his trumpet, and paces the hallways like he did when rehearsing his lines. But there are more, including a five-year-child identified as 'Caroline,' whom LA Curbed describes as wearing a blue dress. Carole Lombard's ghost floats around the upper floor, while two unidentified spirits linger in the Blossom Room where the Academy Awards were held. Radisson Hotels purchased the Roosevelt in 1985, and in 1991 the hotel was added to LA's Historic-Cultural Monument list.

Ghostly jazz players and perfumed women of the Avalon Theater

Yet another landmark to open in 1927 was the Hollywood Playhouse, better known today as the Avalon Theater. Britannica says the theater also has been called El Capitan, while Totally LA says it was also once named The Palace. Under its various names, according to Haunted Places, the theater presented such famous programs as Fanny Brice and Baby Snooks (on radio), This is Your Life, the Lawrence Welk Show, and more. The shows are long gone, but some of the ghosts from the past didn't get the memo. Most prominent is an unseen jazz piano player who plays to an invisible audience upstairs.

Other unseen ghosts allegedly include a gaggle of high-heeled women whose scented perfumes still linger. Guests have heard voices talking in the balcony, a girl sobbing in the ladies' lounge, and there's a former electrician named Harry who steals tools and messes with things. And Only in Hollywood reports that 'strange messages' are somehow generated by the theater's adding machines and cash registers. There are some sightings, too, such as a dashing man wearing a tuxedo and another couple sipping cocktails, à la 1930s style. The scariest phenomenon? A woman's 'blood-curdling' scream, which, as urban legend tells it, was once emitted by a chorus girl after her jilted boyfriend committed suicide by jumping from the catwalk above the stage and died right in front of her.

The mystery of Greystone Mansion

Interestingly, the scene of one of Hollywood's first murders had nothing to do with the movies. But there is plenty of mystery about the unsolved deaths of Ned Doheny and his secretary, Hugh Plunkett. The story, according to Little Things, goes that Doheny and his wife Lucy moved into Greystone Mansion in nearby Beverly Hills in 1928. All was well until February 1929 when Plunkett showed up in the dead of night, met up with his employer in a locked guestroom, and allegedly shot Doheny dead. Lucy called the family doctor. By the time the police were summoned hours later, Plunkett had shot himself too, but there was much confusion around the scene. The bodies, for instance, had been moved.

For over a year, the media followed the case. The authorities theorized that it was a case of murder-suicide, Patch reports, but there are some intriguing tidbits involving the deaths. According to the Indianapolis Times which covered the investigation, there was a scandal involving the dead men dating back to 1921. And, the press pretty much glossed over the alleged murder-suicide and other strange details according to Findagrave. The mystery remains unsolved. Only the ghosts of a man in a black suit, Lucy Doheny, and of course, Ned and his secretary, who have been seen roaming the halls at the historic mansion, know the truth.

Ghosts of the Knickerbocker Hotel

This rather unassuming building, according to Totally LA, opened sometime between 1923 and 1929 as just another Hollywood hotel. Soon, however, the place was rife with celebrities who visited or even lived at the hotel, KCET says. Residents included actors Frances Farmer (pictured), Maureen O'Sullivan, and William Frawley, the latter of whom suffered a fatal heart attack in the lobby long after he had moved out. And the parties were crazy legendary, hosted by such greats as Betty Grable. Anybody who was anybody attended a bash at the Knickerbocker at one time or another, which is why the ghosts of a bellhop, actress Marilyn Monroe and even Rudolph Valentino (who actually died in 1926) wander the halls.

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There is more to the Knickerbocker than just its celebrity status: in 1935, it was the scene of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians annual convention, and the following year Bess Houdini held the last of ten seances on the roof of the hotel as she tried in order to contact her dead magician husband, Harry Houdini. There were other deaths, too, including that of director D.W. Griffith according to LA Curbed. Add Frances Farmer's arrest and subsequent commitment to a mental institution and the suicide of costume designer Irene Lentz who leaped from her 11th-floor window, and this is truly the stuff of a good ghost story.

Howard Hughes spooks around the Pantages Theater

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Oooh, let's talk about Alexander Pantages, the poor Greek boy who worked his way up to a millionaire playboy and whose dalliances included the famed actress Klondike Kate. Pantages's wealth stemmed from the money he made in the Yukon Gold Rush and invested heavily in western theaters. These included the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, which opened in 1930. Just a year before, Pantages's wife caused a car accident that left a man dead, and he was charged with the rape of a seventeen-year-old dancer. Pantages served time for that but was able to open his famous theater —only to lose it in 1932, according to Home Advisor.

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The same year Pantages lost his theater, a female patron allegedly died in the mezzanine during a performance, per Britannica, which theorizes the woman was an 'aspiring singer.' Her singing has actually been heard when the theater is empty and even recorded during live performances. Then there is Howard Hughes, who bought the Pantages in 1949 and whose ghost still opens desk drawers and occasionally appears to visitors. Totally LA claims the millionaire's ghost sightings began following a 1990 break-in. And although he hated cigarette smoke, the odor is often smelled just before Hughes appears. There is another ghost too: that of Alexander Pantages himself, who died in his sleep in 1936.

Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood sign

In 1932, newspapers commented on 24-year-old Peg Entwistle, an acclaimed Broadway star in New York and London who inexplicably jumped to her death from atop the Hollywoodland sign. Although 'attempted suicides in Hollywood are nothing unusual,' according to the Washington DC Evening Star, Entwistle's case was notable since she had received glowing reviews for her part in a play titled 'The Uninvited Guest.' But when her parts in her first movie, Thirteen Women, ended up on the editing room floor according to Fringe Paranormal, Entwistle became unstrung. Feeling very much like Hollywood's own uninvited guest, the girl climbed onto the 'H' of Hollywoodland's iconic sign and jumped.

Entwistle left a note that served to identify the actress's body, which was cremated and buried next to her father in Ohio per Findagrave. And true to Hollywood's legendary folktales, Hollywood Sign claims Entwistle's uncle received a letter offering her a lead role in a play the day after her death. Maybe that is why the woman's ghost lingers near the Hollywood sign still, appearing in the late evening wearing clothing of her era. One couple watched her wander around in a daze before vanishing into thin air. And Griffith Park ranger John Arbogast says Entwistle smells of gardenias when she appears and often sets off the alarms around the sign.

Hitler (almost) goes to Hollywood

This little-known landmark is not so much haunted as it is haunting. And it's still worth a look to see if any ghosts show up. Most shocking is its purpose: a secret ranch was constructed outside of Hollywood by Hitler fanatics just for the Nazi leader. Smithsonian Magazine says that upon becoming chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hitler's henchmen sought to infiltrate Los Angeles and start doing away with Jews. Enter the 'Silver Shirts,' a fan club headed by Winona and Norman Stephens. According to Time magazine, the couple purchased 50 acres near today's Will Rogers State Historic Park and began constructing elaborate buildings for the ranch in hopes of making it one of Hitler's headquarters.

According to LA Curbed, the plans included a palatial four-story mansion, spring-fed water, a power station, expansive gardens, and even a pool. But Hitler never visited the ranch and the project never came to full fruition. The place was abandoned sometime after 1948, at which time the Stephens were still relegated to living above a garage and threw in the towel. Gizmodo confirms that some structures were slated to be torn down, which they were in 2016. But enough graffiti-covered ruins remain yet to make the hike to see them worthwhile, and not surprisingly, the place exudes creepiness.

Do schoolchildren haunt the Vogue Theater?

The story goes, according to Creepy Ghost Stories, that in 1901 a fire at Hollywood's Prospect Elementary School killed 25 children and their teacher, identified as 'Miss Elizabeth.' The school, says the site, was located right next door to the Vogue Theater during the 'late 1800s,' but the Vogue wasn't built until 1935. Also, old maps fail to reveal a school on the site, and there are no known news articles about such a fire. Yet several websites, including The Culture Trip, say it is true, and that Miss Elizabeth and eight of her students now haunt the Vogue Theater.

'The theatre is NOT haunted,' former employee Michael Moran insisted to Los Angeles Theatres in 2017. There are no ghosts at all, he says, not even the ghost of a former projectionist identified as Gus. 'I knew Gus and he died long after he retired from the Vogue,' Moran claimed. Rather, the story was fabricated by 'Ghost Hunters tour or some such nonsense.' Moran might have been referring to the International Society for Paranormal Research, which LA Tourist says took over the Vogue in 1992 and found six children and three adults spooking around. Parapsychologist Larry Montz claimed the Vogue 'was one of the most active sites I've ever worked on.' And when his group was done investigating in 2001, he said, they cleared out the ghosts. But others who visit the place remain unsure.

Ghosts of Ciro's dance club

The first Ciro's, according to Playground to the Stars, opened in 1934 on Hollywood Boulevard but failed. In 1940, Billy Wilkerson opened a new, successful Ciro's on Sunset Boulevard which soon became one of the hottest dance clubs in town with such guests as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (pictured). But another owner, Herman Hover, lost the business in 1957. After serving as a rock club for a decade or so, the Comedy Store opened for business in 1972 and hosted such greats as Johnny Carson and Richard Pryor. Although none of the building's ghosts are identifiable, plenty of spirits wander around the place today.

Britannica cites such instances as the sound of a piano and other prankish phenomena on the second floor. Candles blow out on their own and chairs slide across the stage by themselves and were once found piled on the stage just seconds after security guard Blake Clark passed by. Clark, who has seen a ghost or two, also said that once, as Sam Kinison rehearsed on stage, a buzz of voices began chanting 'It's him. It's him. It's him,' according to Haunted World. The website also theorizes that most of the spirits hail from the 1940s and '50s when Hover's guest list included members of the mob. Gangster Mickey Cohen and others purportedly tortured and killed men down in the basement, which is described as being haunted by 'an evil entity.' Wear your Kevlar.

Spirits of the Hollywood Wax Museum

What better place for the dead to come to life but in a wax museum? The Hollywood Wax Museum on Hollywood Boulevard opened in 1965 and has since branched out across America. In the original museum, however, spirits move amongst the life-size wax figures, says CBS Los Angeles. Also, photographs of the displays often included 'strange images' and colors that can't be explained. Rumors of ghosts once inspired a National Enquirer reporter to stay the night in the museum overnight. By morning the man was cowering at the front door 'completely pale and horrified.'

LA Tourist, which also recounted the National Enquirer writer's experience, claims that the magazine never heard from their wayward reporter again. But there's more: general manager Tej Sundher says seances in the museum have revealed spirits haunting the place. And as if seeing lifelike creepy wax figures standing around isn't enough, visitors have also reported spotting a woman kneeling in prayer in front of the Last Supper exhibit, Haunted Rooms says. She vanishes when approached. There is also a ghostly young man who enjoys hanging out in the Chamber of Horrors.