Thursday, April 06, 2006

HAPPY CAPITOL RECORDS TOWER DAY!
Thursday April 6, 2006 is the official 50th anniversary of the grand opening of the Capitol Records Tower at 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA


Click the above image to get a larger version. This image, from Hollywood's honorary Mayor Johnny Grant, shows Capitol co-founder, and at that time president, Glenn Wallichs and Samuel Morse's grandaughter, Leila Morse, with an unknown gentleman throwing the switch to light the beacon on top of the tower to spell out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D in Morse code for the first time! If you can identify the 2nd gentleman, please leave a comment.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The 13th image of Stan Chambers, Glenn Wallichs and unknown( L.J. Brown) and the 14th image is of Stan Chambers handshaking unknown (Lou Busch) hand.