I lived there off & on for 10 years. (I’ve also lived @ The Villa Elaine in Hollywood where Man Ray, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles & allot of others lived, Fred McMurray’s actual apartment in the movie Double Indemnity on N. Kingsley in Los Feliz & @ The Arthouse in Columbus,Oh where jazz musicians of the 1920s would stay as well as Tina Turner in my actual apartment in later years. In NONE of these places did I know their history until I moved in. ALL were sheer coincidence.) So, anyway I knew the Simpson family (who owned the property & building) very well. And they were REALLY quite a family !! Esther Simpson was something else !! They all were !! So…if anyone has any questions regarding the history of that building, feel free to contact me because I’m probably one of the last people around with the inside scoop. And it’s quite a scoop! Joe Hartmann
I lived there off & on for 10 years. (I’ve also lived @ The Villa Elaine in Hollywood where Man Ray, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles & allot of others lived, Fred McMurray’s actual apartment in the movie Double Indemnity on N. Kingsley in Los Feliz & @ The Arthouse in Columbus,Oh where jazz musicians of the 1920s would stay as well as Tina Turner in my actual apartment in later years. In NONE of these places did I know their history until I moved in. ALL were sheer coincidence.) So, anyway I knew the Simpson family (who owned the property & building) very well. And they were REALLY quite a family !! Esther Simpson was something else !! They all were !! So…if anyone has any questions regarding the history of that building, feel free to contact me because I’m probably one of the last people around with the inside scoop. And it’s quite a scoop! Joe Hartmann