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28-613: In 1925, Carl Laemmle purchased land on the northwest corner of Hollywood and Vine from George Hoover for $ 350,000. Laemmle, then president of Universal Pictures Corporation , owned a successful movie studio in the San Fernando Valley and planned to build a 900-seat theatre and office tower on this property, but the Great Depression thwarted his plan. Instead, he developed the Laemmle Building,

56-572: A 230-acre (0.9-km ) converted farm in the San Fernando Valley , just over the Cahuenga Pass from Hollywood. Universal maintained two East Coast offices: The first was located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. This building, initially known as the Studebaker Building , was razed around 2004 or 2005. The second location to house Universal's executive offices was at 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Many years later, 445 Park Avenue

84-531: A Jewish school. When he was 13, she arranged a three-year apprenticeship for him in Ichenhausen , a nearby village, where he learned accounting and sales, and worked to support his family. After his mother died in 1883, Laemmle decided to emigrate to the US for a better life, also following his thirteen-year-older brother Joseph. For his 17th birthday, his father had given him the tickets for an Atlantic crossing on

112-469: A bolder advertising style. In 1906, at the age of 39, Laemmle quit his job. He initially wanted to open a network of cheap retail stores, but changed his mind after entering a nickelodeon . He started one of the first motion picture theaters in Chicago, The White Front on Milwaukee Avenue, and quickly branched out into film exchange services. He challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on moving pictures,

140-480: A criminal trial before the Memmingen Regional Court in 1948, seven people were sentenced to prison for this reason. Many Jewish citizens moved to larger cities where they felt more secure in anonymity or emigrated abroad. Those left behind were deported and killed; 1942 (82 people to Lublin , 28 people to Theresienstadt ) and 1943 (ten people to Auschwitz ); only one woman survived. In 1964

168-594: A one-story stucco structure with a red tile roof. Designed by Richard Neutra , the building opened in 1932. The Laemmle Building's first tenant was the CoCo Tree Café , and in 1940 restaurateur Sidney Hoedemaker of the Pig 'n Whistle - Melody Lane chain transformed the building into a Melody Lane Restaurant. Architects Wayne McAllister and S. Charles Lee led the transformation. In 1949, Hoedemaker founded Hody's Restaurant and in 1955, Hody's Restaurant signed

196-436: A producer (1909–1934), is remembered for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom of The Opera (1925), both with Lon Chaney Sr. in the title role, and The Man Who Laughs (1928) and most of the early sound horror films, such as Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), with his son, Carl Jr. Laemmle remained connected to his home town of Laupheim throughout his life, providing financial support to it. In

224-572: A regular community. In 1913 Ichenhausen was elevated to city status. For centuries, Jewish families have lived in the village. They set up their own Jewish cemetery on the road to Krumbach and built a synagogue in 1687. This was renewed in 1781. In 1933, 13% of the population was Jewish. At the November pogrom in 1938, the synagogue and the Jewish cemetery were destroyed, organized by the NSDAP . In

252-563: A twenty-year lease for the Laemmle Building, at which point the building was remodeled again. In 1971, a Howard Johnson's Coffee Shop moved into the building, where they would remain until the mid-1980s, and in 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places , with Laemmle Building listed in the district. The listing noted that

280-619: The Motion Picture Patents Company , under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 . As part of his offensive against Edison's company, Laemmle began advertising individual "stars," such as Mary Pickford and Florence Lawrence , thus increasing their individual earning power, and thus their willingness to side with the "Independents." After moving to New York, Carl Laemmle became involved in producing movies, forming Independent Moving Pictures (IMP);

308-576: The "Universal Film Manufacturing Company", with Laemmle assuming the role of president. They founded the Company with studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey , where at the beginning of the 20th century many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based. On March 15, 1915, Laemmle opened the world's largest motion picture production facility, Universal Studios Hollywood , on

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336-589: The 1930s he sponsored hundreds of Jews from Laupheim and Württemberg to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States, paying both emigration and immigration fees, thus saving them from the Holocaust . To ensure and facilitate their immigration, Laemmle contacted American authorities, members of the House of Representatives and Secretary of State Cordell Hull . He also intervened to try to secure entry for

364-520: The building was heavily remodeled and remained no integrity; therefore, it was not listed as a contributing property in the district. After Howard Johnson's Coffee Shop vacated the building, the building was occupied by a slew of struggling retail and nightclubs, including Premiere, Jack's Sugar Shack, the Deep, and finally the Basque nightclub. Also during this time, Hollywood Brown Derby briefly occupied

392-433: The building, after their previous location, a half-block away, was destroyed in a fire. In 2008, the building, occupied by the Basque nightclub, was destroyed in a fire. The location has since become a parking lot. Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle ( / ˈ l ɛ m l i / ; born Karl Lämmle German: [ˈlɛmlə] ; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and

420-560: The city was the site of many new movie-related businesses. On April 30, 1912, in New York, Laemmle brought together Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company , William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company , David Horsley of Nestor Film Company , as well as Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company , to merge their companies with IMP as

448-793: The co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures . He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born in what is now Germany . He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons , eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) , later renamed Universal Film Manufacturing Company , and later still renamed Universal Pictures Company. Karl Lämmle

476-690: The course of the territorial reform. Ichenhausen is arranged into six districts: In Ichenhausen is the Bavarian School Museum , a branch museum of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum . Another cultural asset in Ichenhausen is the former synagogue , which served as a fire station after the Second World War and was converted into a "House of Encounter" in the late 1980s. The Jewish Cemetery is also one of

504-566: The film industry included his cousins Max Laemmle , Kurt Laemmle , and William Wyler ; his nephews Ernst Laemmle and Edward Laemmle ; his niece Carla Laemmle ; and his brothers-in-law Isadore Bernstein , Joseph Stern , and Abe Stern . His great-nephew Michael Laemmle is a noterd resident of Darwin, California , and was featured in the 2011 documentary Darwin: No Services Ahead . His great-grandniece, Antonia Carlotta, talks about him at length in Universally Me , her web series about

532-441: The final construction was a one-story restaurant, the original plans thwarted by the Great Depression . In 1936, Laemmle and his son were removed from the company he founded by a hostile takeover. He briefly resumed distribution with a partner, Michael Mindlin, specializing in foreign films as CL Imports, in the mid-1930s, but for the most part remained in secluded retirement until his death. In 1898, Laemmle married Recha Stern,

560-557: The former home of film pioneer Thomas Ince on Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills, which was razed in the early 1940s; he also maintained a large apartment for himself and his two children at 465 West End Avenue in New York City. Asked how to pronounce his surname, Laemmle told The Literary Digest in 1936, "The name means 'little lamb' and is pronounced as if it were spelled 'lem-lee'." Laemmle's relatives in

588-614: The history of Universal Studios. Poet Ogden Nash observed the following about Laemmle's habit of giving his son and nephews top executive positions in his studios: Uncle Carl Laemmle Has a very large faemmle. Laemmle died from cardiovascular disease on September 24, 1939, in Beverly Hills, California , at the age of 72. Laemmle was entombed in the Chapel Mausoleum at Home of Peace Cemetery . Laemmle, although having made hundreds of films in his active years as

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616-540: The niece of Sam Stern, his employer at the Continental Clothing Company. Together, they had a daughter named Rosabelle (born 1903) and a son named Julius (born 1908). Rosabelle later married Stanley Bergerman , while Julius became known as Carl Laemmle Jr. On January 13, 1919, at the age of 43, Recha died from pneumonia caused by the Spanish flu . After moving to California, Laemmle purchased

644-415: The old Catholic church St. Johannes was extended and partly rebuilt. The church tower collapsed on Easter Monday in 1964 as a result of the reconstruction work. No injuries were sustained. Ichenhausen has incorporated five other communities. Hochwang was incorporated on January 1, 1971. Oxenbronn was added on 1 July 1971. On 1 May 1978, the communities of Autenried, Deubach and Rieden an der Kötz followed in

672-586: The refugees on board the SS ; St. Louis , who were ultimately sent back from Havana to Europe in 1939, where many were murdered in the Holocaust. Ichenhausen Ichenhausen is a town in the district of Günzburg , in Bavaria , Germany . It is situated on the river Günz , 9 km south of Günzburg . The Lords of Roth had been feudal lord of the village since the early 14th century. In 1406

700-491: The steamboat SS Neckar plus fifty dollars. He left Bremerhaven on January 28, 1884, and arrived in New York on February 14, 1884. He settled in Chicago . Here he lived for about twenty years as a bookkeeper and office manager. In 1889, he became a naturalized American citizen. Laemmle worked a variety of jobs, but by 1894 he was the bookkeeper of the Continental Clothing Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin , where he introduced

728-575: The town was granted market rights. In 1574 the barons of Stain von Rechtenstein zu Niederstotzingen acquired the village. With the 1806 Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine , the town came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and in 1818 became a patrimonial community according to new Constitution of the Kingdom and the communal act , which lasted until 1843 when the patrimonial status ended and it became

756-547: Was born in 1867 to Julius Baruch Lämmle and Rebekka Lämmle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim , in the Kingdom of Württemberg . His father was a cattle merchant, also involved in land transactions. The family struggled financially and lived in poverty: Of his eleven siblings only 3 reached adulthood. He was one of the youngest children, and close to his mother, who enrolled him in

784-564: Was the location of Universal's executive offices. In 1916, Laemmle sponsored the $ 3,000 three-foot-tall solid silver Universal Trophy for the winner of the annual Universal race at the Uniontown Speedway board track in southwestern Pennsylvania. Universal filmed each race from 1916 to 1922. In 1932, Laemmle opened the Laemmle Building on Hollywood and Vine . Originally planned as a 900-seat theater and office tower,

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