43. The Garden of Allah

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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It's the beginning of a new season, and we are shifting our focus back to the West Coast! Long before The Beverly Hills Hotel or the Chateau Marmont, there was The Garden of Allah... home to a whole artist community - of all types - from the 1920s to the end of 1950s. What started as the private residence of the famous silent screen star Alla Nazimova became a 30-year-long party on the Sunset Strip that created a culture, a colony, and a legend in the Hollywood scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Welcome to Dun & Dunn.
0:31.9	I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey,
0:35.1	All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:37.3	This week, as we kick off a brand new season,
0:39.6	we're going to pack our bags and head to the West Coast, Sunny Hollywood, and the swinging
0:44.7	hot spot for about 30 years there, the Garden of Allah. Nick would have seen the Garden of Allah
0:52.5	on his adventure with Aunt Harriet in that golden trip to Hollywood in the mid-1930s.
0:58.4	The Garden of Alla was already hopping in the 19-teens and the 1920s, but only as a private residence.
1:06.2	It gets even more popular when it opens in 1927 as a boutique hotel.
1:12.1	But by the time our man Nick lands in Hollywood in the late 50s, the Chateau Marmont is taking over,
1:19.0	as the Garden of Alla was demolished in 1959 to make room for a strip mall.
1:31.3	But for 30 years, the Garden of Alla is where the action was.
1:38.1	And its place in the scene is crucial, I think, to gaining an understanding of at least how this community works in Hollywood, especially in the land of the West Coast. At this time, there are going to be tremendous
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