3424 WEST ADAMS BLVD - SILVERLAKE

 

ON THE ROAD WITH ROSCOE:

The Arbuckle Address Tour

by

Bob Siler

 

1887

SMITH CENTER - KANSAS

Roscoe Arbuckle was boen here on March 24 to William

Goodrich and Mary Arbuckle.

 

1888

The Arbuckle's packed up and moved to Santa Ana,

Califorina.

 

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA

826 - 828 NORTH BIRCH STREET

Roscoe's boyhood home was a small, double house that

his parents turned into a small hotel.

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

1919 - 1921

649 WEST ADAMS BLVD - SILVERLAKE

He and his wife Minta Durfee bought the house from Theda

Bara. He was living here at the time of his rape scandal. In

1923 he rented it to director Raoul Walsh and his actress Miriam Cooper. They only lived in it less than a year.

 

3424 WEST ADAMS BLVD - SILVERLAKE

Roscoe and Minta next moved into this house.

 

1920

1621 OCEAN AVENUE - LONG BEACH

Roscoe bought a mansion here in 1920.

 

1922

112 EAST 57th STREET - NEW YORK CITY, NY

MINTA DURFEE

This was her New York apartment. She and Arbuckle divorced in 1925.

 

1925

NORTH CANYON DRIVE - BEVERLY HILLS

Roscoe rented a house on this street from Joseph

Schenck and lived in it with his second wife, Doris Deane.

They divorced in 1927.

 

1930

1851 NORTH IVAR AVENUE - HOLLYWOOD

THE ALTO NIDO APARTMENTS

 

1933

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK

THE PARK CENTRAL HOTEL

FIFTY - FIFTH STREET AND SEVENTH AVENUE

On June 29 Roscoe and his third wife, Addie McPhail

were staying in the hotel suite. At 2:30 AM he died in his

sleep. He was 46 years old.

 

NOTABLE ARBUCKLE ADDRESSES:

 

THE MONTECITO INN

MONTECITO, CALIFORNIA (Near Santa Barbara)

Roscoe and Charlie Chaplin invested $175,000 each in

this fifty - three room, Spanish villa type hotel.

 

1928 - 1930

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA

THE PLANTATION CLUB

He opened it in 1928 and closed it in 1930.

 

504 NORTH WILTON PLACE - LOS ANGELES

VIRGINIA RAPPE

She was living in an apartment around 1917.

 

1419 CORONADO STREET - LOS ANGELES

MINTA DURFEE ARBUCKLE

Roscoe's first wife was living here at the time of her death

on September 9, 1975.

 

8561 DE SOTO AVENUE - CANOGA PARK

ADDIE MCPHAIL ARBUCKLE - #210

Roscoe's third and last wife was living here at the time of

death on April 14, 2003.

 

1540 BROADWAY - NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

NICHOLAS SCHENCK

He was living here in 1923.

 

FILM STUDIOS WHERE ARBUCKLE WORKED

SELIG - 1909 - 1913

1845 ALLESANDRO STREET - LOS ANGELES

 

UNIVERSAL - NESTOR - 1913

SUNSET BLVD AND GOWER - HOLLYWOOD

 

KEYSTONE STUDIOS - 1913 - 1916

1712 ALLESANDRO STREET - LOS ANGELES

 

NORMA TALMADGE STUDIO - 1917

318 EAST 48th STREET - MANHATTAN, NEW YORK

 

SELZNICK STUDIOS (old Biograph Studios) - 1917

795 EAST 176th STREET - NEW YORK CITY, NY

 

COMIQUE FILM CORP. STUDIOS - 1918

(old Balboa Studios)

SIXTH AND ALAMITOS STREET - LONG BEACH, CA.

 

DIANDO FILM STUDIOS - 1918 (old Kalem Studios)

VERDUGO ROAD - GLENDALE

 

COMIQUE FILM STUDIOS - 1919

1723 ALLESANDRO STREET - LOS ANGELES

 

HENRY LEHRMAN STUDIOS - 1919 - 1920

(Tom Ince Studios)

CULVER CITY, CA.

 

FAMOUS PLAYERS - LASKY - 1920 - 1923 (Paramount)

1520 VINE STREET - HOLLYWOOD

 

EDUCATIONAL STUDIOS - 1923 - 1925

7250 SANTA MONICA BLVD, CALIF.

 

METRO STUDIOS - 1924

 

MGM STUDIOS - 1925, 1927

 

RKO RADIO - 1930, 1931

 

RKO PATHE - 1931

9336 WASHINGTON BLVD, CULVER CITY, CA.

 

SOME FILM LOCATION SITES:

 

HEY, POP! (1932)

VITAGRAPH STUDIOS

15th STREET AND LOCUST AVENUE

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Scenes were filmed here.

 

DORMAN SQUARE RESTAURANT

ELM AVENUE - FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

 

AVENUE M

BETWEEN EAST 13th AND 14th STREETS

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

The chase scene was filmed here.

 

WISHED ON MABEL (1915)

GOLDEN GATE PARK - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.



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