The highschool the place Brian De Palma brough Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch home and a motel owned by William Randolph Hearst are amongst a few of the well-known constructions which have been broken or destroyed by the California wildfires.
Los Angeles is a city filled with landmarks, because of its co-starring position in over a century of filmed leisure. Some famed spots — just like the Hollywood Bowl, the TCL Chinese language Theatre and the Dolby Theatre, the place the Oscars are held — initially appeared imperiled by the Hollywood Hills hearth, but remained at the very least largely unhurt Thursday. However the fires have taken a toll on some acquainted websites.
Palisades Constitution Excessive Faculty
There was “significant damage” to Palisades Constitution Excessive Faculty, although the primary campus constructing stands. Based in 1961 and constructed for a reported $6 million, the highschool at present serves some 3,000 college students all through the Los Angeles space, although they weren’t in session this week.
FAMOUS CREDITS: De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of “Carrie,” starring Sissy Spacek because the outcast teen, is probably Pali Excessive’s most recognizable credit score. It’s additionally performed excessive faculties within the 2003 remake of “Freaky Friday,” with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, the Kirsten Dunst film “Crazy/Beautiful,” the Anne Hathaway movie “Havoc,” the tv sequence “Teen Wolf” and “American Vandal” and the music video for Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u.” Notable alumni embody filmmaker J.J. Abrams, actors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Forest Whitaker, musician will.i.am, Los Angeles Lakers proprietor Jeanie Buss and Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.
Will Rogers’ ranch home
Will Rogers’ Western Ranch Home, a property relationship again to the Nineteen Twenties, was utterly destroyed within the Palisades Fireplace. Constructed on 186 acres within the Pacific Palisades space, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, it had 31 rooms, corrals, a steady, driving ring, roping enviornment, polo subject, golf course and mountaineering trails. It was the place the famed actor (as soon as one of many highest paid) and radio persona would journey horses and follow roping earlier than his dying in 1935. His widow, Betty Rogers, gave the property to the state in 1944 and it grew to become a historic state park.
FAMOUS CREDITS: The state park was featured within the 1975 Barbra Streisand sequel “Funny Lady.”
Topanga Ranch Motel
The Palisades Fireplace additionally destroyed the Topanga Ranch Motel, a 30-room, bungalow-style motel constructed by William Randolph Hearst in 1929. The property had been uninhabited and deteriorating for practically 20 years, however there have been plans for a restoration and reopening within the works.
FAMOUS CREDITS: The Seventies tv sequence “Mannix” in addition to an episode of “Remington Steele,” the 1986 Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy film “Blue City” and the 1991 Bridget Fonda film “Leather Jackets.”
Reel Inn Malibu
This seafood shack on the Pacific Coast Freeway and throughout the road from Topanga Seashore State Park opened in 1986 and burned to the bottom within the hearth. In an Instagram put up, the house owners wrote that they weren’t positive what would stay of the beloved spot. “Hopefully the state parks will let us rebuild when the dust settles,” Teddy and Andy Leonard wrote.
FAMOUS CREDITS: It’s been featured on exhibits like “Man vs. Food” and “The Chew” and counted the likes of Cindy Crawford, Paris Hilton and Jerry Seinfeld as followers of its fried seafood fare. It additionally made a cameo in “24.”
The Bunny Museum
A unusual Los Angeles-area oddity, The Bunny Museum, situated in Altadena and devoted to all issues bunnies, was additionally destroyed. The museum had all types of bunny-themed objects, from Trix containers and bottles of Nesquik, Bugs Bunny paraphernalia and journal covers of performer Unhealthy Bunny. There was additionally a Chamber of Hop Horrors detailing the historic abuse of bunnies that had an age requirement: 13 and up.
FAMOUS CREDITS: It’s made the Guinness Guide of World Data, and been featured in Ripley’s Imagine It Or Not!, the Smithsonian Journal and an episode of “Visiting…With Huell Howser.”
