Visual Materials

Universal City. Entrance to the "City of Wonders."

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Description: View of the entrance to Universal City movie studio with administrative buildings in view, which was promoted as a tourist destination. A woman is seen next to a sign "University City 'Capital of the Film World'" and an automobile, and several people are near the gated entrance.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1915
Call number: photCL_555_01_1037
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Universal Studios, Universal City, Cal

Visual Materials

Image of a street view of the Universal Pictures Company Studios in Universal City, California, with automobiles parked on the street and signs that read "Universal Pictures," and "Universal Pictures Company."

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Entrance to the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California

Visual Materials

Image of the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, with a "Gruen Time, Hollywood Bowl Symphonies under the Stars" sign and marquee reading "Coming Sat October 21 Y Day in Hollywood All Star Show Inquire Your YMCA,." Other signs across the street next to the entrance to the tunnel read "Use Bowl Underpass" and "No Parking."

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Entrance, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes. 1937

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Palm trees and a wood gate frame the entrance to the Rolling Hills area of Palos Verdes. A sign over the gate reads "Rolling Hills : country life -- city convenience". The road that passes through the gate and into the distance is unpaved and has picket fences and young trees lining the sides.

photCL Whitt 0575 ; Whitt neg. 1566

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Universal City Recreation Development Report

Visual Materials

This collection chiefly contains studio-produced press photographs of the development of the Universal Pictures movie studio, MCA-Universal Studios, the Universal Studios Tour, and Universal City in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, 1910s - 1990s. These materials were acquired and collected by Albert A. Dorskind during his tenure as an executive at MCA Inc. While many of the photographs depict locations and events of the 1910s-1960s, they are all 8 x 10-inch reproduction photographs. Views include early filmmaking, street sets and backlots, studio facilities and buildings, personnel (including studio heads Carl Laemmle and Lew Wasserman), and photographs of architectural drawings. The collection includes a portfolio of photographs of concept designs by architects William L. Pereira Associates for the MCA Sheraton Hotel No. 2 (later known as the Sheraton Premiere Hotel) in Universal City; a bound book of photographs of Universal Studios backlot locations; and five VHS-format audiovisual cassette tapes of Universal Studios history and 80th Anniversary celebrations (1985,1994).

Looff Pleasure Pier, "What Is It" entrance

Visual Materials

Image of people standing next to the entrance of the "What Is It" ride on the Looff Pleasure Pier in Santa Monica, California.

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Brochures -- Universal City

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This collection contains the professional papers of Albert A. Dorskind (1922-2004) generated during his tenure as an executive at MCA Inc. The papers primarily document Dorksind's work developing Universal City and the Universal Studios Tour tourist attraction and theme park in Los Angeles, California, from the late 1950s into the 1970s. There are a total of three legal upright boxes, one oversize box and four bound volumes. Document types include agreements, master plans, reports, and various business records.

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Universal City. Entrance to the "City of Wonders."

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