Los Angeles Historian

If you drive around Hollywood very much, you’re probably familiar with the CNN building. It’s on Sunset Blvd, just west of Amoeba Records.

The address is 6430 W. Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028. Below is a picture of the south side of the building taken from Cole Place.

I’ve been watching the Mod Squad on DVD lately. And while watching the episode “The Price of Terror” (Season 1, Volume 1, Disc 3), I was pleasantly surprised to see that they used this building as a location when it was being built in 1968.

On the bottom right corner of the above picture you can see the Capitol Records tower.

Hey look, there’s the Cinerama Dome. The Sunset & Vine Tower is behind it. And there on the left is the building that was torn down to make way for Amoeba Records!

And where there is now an Office Depot, there was once a Pep Boys. What’ya know? There is also a really great shot from the top of the building and you see the southern part of Hollywood, Baldwin Hills, etc. So be sure to rent (or buy) this DVD.

Also, I checked the 1973 Los Angeles City Directory for business listings at this building and were are some of the more notable inhabitants: Paramount Records (Paramount Picture’s record co.), The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy people), Irving Berlin Music (publishing co.), Dick James Music (he published songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney), Artisan Sound Recorders (one of the best record mastering labs in L.A.), and Goodson & Todman Productions (the people that gave us such gameshow’s as The Price Is Right and.. my favorite.. Match Game). Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Summers have probably been in this building.