Laurel and Hardy “The Music Box” (1932)
Today is ‘Music Box Steps Day’ in Silver Lake, where people young and old gather at the park near the foot of the famous steps to enjoy the movie, interact with real life-like Stan and Ollie impersonators, and eat pizza. The steps happen to be around the corner from my house, so I went to check it out.
Obsessive readers may notice that the location indicated on my Twitter page is “Edendale, California”, which is how the iPhone app Twitteriffic interprets my GPS location, despite the name ‘Edendale’ having been out of use for many decades.
From the wiki:
In the opening decades of the 20th century, in the era of silent film, Edendale was widely known as the home of most major film studios on the West Coast. Among its many claims, it was home to the Keystone Cops, and the site of many film firsts, including Charlie Chaplin’s first film, the first feature-length comedy, and the first pie-in-the-face.The district’s heyday as the center of the film industry was in the 1910s. By the 1920s, the studios had moved elsewhere, mostly to Hollywood, which would come to supplant it as the “film capital”.
