The Woman Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign - Peg Entwistle / Los Angeles Locations
A visit not only to the iconic Hollywood Sign where Peg Entwistle jumped from the top of the H but also the spots from her Los Angeles life leading up to that night .
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today's adventure brings us to Hollywood
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California starting off here with a very
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good view of the iconic sign we're in
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1932 a young actress by the name of peg
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entwistle leapt off the H she did not
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survive which was her intention which
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has caused her to go down in history as
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the only person to perish by plummeting
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from this structure
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here my
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goal today is to basically retrace her
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steps on once she moved to Los Angeles
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the events leading up to that evening
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and beyond and I want to show you all
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the different spots around the city that
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you can visit on your own or vicariously
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through this video join me shall you
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heading over to where some people say
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peg first lived when she moved to LA
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there's not a lot of evidence and proof
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backing this up but figure I'll check it
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out anyhow this once was the studio club
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were lots of starlets once resided
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everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Barbara
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Eden even Sharon Tate live behind these
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walls it was placed on the National
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Registry of historical places in 1979
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and even though it's not currently used
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for its original purpose the YMCA still
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owns it
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you never know she could have possibly
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set up residence here just for a short
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while even though there's no proper
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documentation online about it I could
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see it happening this is a printout of a
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pamphlet they gave the residents upon
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being here where I'm located is right in
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the middle and you can see how it
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stretches out with different lines
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leading to all the different studios
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implying that if they lived here they
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might get a job at the studio at
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Universal or Culver City or even
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Glendale off to the far right everything
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within a short distance
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it's always neat to match up these old
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photographs then and now in the floral
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arrangement above the archways is still
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here all these years later has seen
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right there in this picture slightly
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better view you can see the detail all
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along there of the flowers small trees
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out front are no longer there
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of course the palm trees still are but
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the two that were in front of the
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entryway are gone but this little alcove
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with the side entrance and stairwell
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it still looks the same also back there
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it is tucked away right over there about
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five miles from this point heading to
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the Belasco theater downtown and I'm
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sitting in traffic but I got a pretty
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good view of this classic truck and it
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was here starting at the end of May for
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about two weeks a play by the name of
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the mad hopes rant that she was a part
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of the same year that she passed away it
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also starred Humphrey Bogart and Billy
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Burke best known for The Wizard of Oz
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and even though it was critically
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acclaimed she wanted a taste of the big
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screen she wanted to be in films which
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will take us to our next spot it's gonna
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stand here for a moment though and check
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out the craftsmanship the side of this
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building pretty cool and even more
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detail on the side of this entry gate
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the wrought iron and concrete that is
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formulated and toothed little faces that
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stretch all the way up the side I don't
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make them like this much anymore
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commuting north out of downtown towards
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Hollywood proper where our story
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continues her break came when radio
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pictures which eventually became RKO
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Pictures cast her in a movie by the name
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of 13 women this was her big chance her
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name and lights her face on the silver
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screen in that building still remains
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production facilities way back then and
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current day as you can see looks
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basically the same with the exception of
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the radio tower emitting from the top of
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the globe but the earth is still up
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there this property and this building is
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now owned by Paramount Studios but
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before the movies final release they
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showed it to some test audiences and
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ended up deciding they needed to cut
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some scenes most of which were hers but
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the majority of what she had films was
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cut from the final film which progresses
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the story directly towards
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the Hollywood side
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on Friday September 16th she walked up
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beechwood Drive and I'm currently
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standing on after telling her uncle who
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she had been staying with at this home
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that she was going to the store when in
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reality she had other plants in such
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close proximity to the final destination
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you have to wonder how often or for how
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long she contemplated doing it while she
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was staying here certainly not very
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discrete step out the front door and
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it's right there in your face I should
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probably get out of the road dog that
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there's a truck coming as you can tell
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this is a very popular area from people
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that try to get a photograph everyone
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just kind of Mills about in the road it
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tries to get their photograph perfectly
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lined up back then the lettering spelled
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out Hollywoodland used to promote a
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housing development below it's the land
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of course and this current day has been
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removed which makes me wonder if she
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would have jumped off the lva the N or
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the final d with the legend be as strong
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makes you wonder
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but she chose the H and the reason for
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that is there was a ladder accessible
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around the back side that she was able
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to climb and she dove headfirst off the
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top of it
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and you might think well that would not
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injure you to the point of death but in
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reality these are very very tall you can
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barely see some people up on the top of
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that hill which shows the size
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comparison between a six-foot person and
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the enormous e and height of that side
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I've placed her photograph
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here in this bush just below where it
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happened
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a little folklore here in the Hollywood
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Hills some say her ghost still haunts
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the premises if you believe that sort of
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thing I could definitely see where
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people would lean towards that some say
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her perfume can be smelled in this area
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at certain times of the evening not a
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bad view from up here looking the
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opposite direction towards Los Angeles
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off in the haze it's a nice breeze up
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here as well I'm gonna take this with me
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because I think that would be classified
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as littering the woman who found the
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body wanted to remain anonymous so she
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took pegs shoes the note and her jacket
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and laid it on the steps of the police
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department later alerting them that she
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had placed them there at the base of the
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entryway and as you can see quite a few
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changes have happened on that corner
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since then the address is the same but
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the facade is considerably different
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however after looking at this it appears
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as if the stairwell is kind of in the
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same spot yeah right there that's where
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she would have laid the items of course
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it's not the same stairs but the same
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general vicinity the bottom of the note
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was initialed PE and it was a little bit
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of confusion what it stood for at first
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until her uncle identified the body and
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a mystery was solved the news spread as
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far as New York City actress ends life
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by jumping off 50-foot sign after
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failure in movies the funeral would have
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been held here on the left where this
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apartment building now stands back then
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it was home to Struthers mortuary in
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fact both the buildings of this photo
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are now demolished
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but the mortuary was right there on the
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corner of argyll and Hollywood Boulevard
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that was then back in the past you know
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before they demolished it and this is
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now current day
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slightly different look wouldn't you say
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after the funeral her body was moved
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just a few blocks over to a cemetery
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that is now known as Hollywood Forever
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there she was cremated and her ashes not
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placed there that is not the final
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resting place they were sent to Glendale
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Ohio and laid next to her father and
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this leads me to one last spot the
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former Max Factor building now the
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hollywood museum has a couple artifacts
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pertaining to the subject matter there
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it is the final piece of the puzzle that
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is a chunk of the original h
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and a little information has been placed
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here as well with a photo of PEG stating
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here on display an original piece of the
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Hollywoodland sign the H before its
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reconstruction in 1978 which means that
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that would have been one of the last
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things she saw before her death the no
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she left stated quote I am afraid I am a
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coward I'm sorry for everything if I had
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done this a long time ago you would have
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saved a lot of pain she was only twenty
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four years old
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rumor has it that her uncle received a
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letter in the mail the next day offering
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her the lead role in a play here's some
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more documentation of Strothers funeral
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home right there circa 1939 caddy corner
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to the Pantages Hollywood Boulevard and
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you can see definitely not these
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security measures they have in this day
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and age now there's a fence all around
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it
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but you could just walk right up to it
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at that point completely completely
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accessible to all that's gonna do it for
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to see if anyone knows the connection
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between Betty Davis and peg Entwistle
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anyone