There are many stories that circulated about the Normandie but no one can know for sure if some of them are true. In the apartments clustered amid vine-covered pathways that made the Normandie Village resemble medieval suburbia of Marseilles or Toulon, great stars of silent movies and the new “talkies” lived, partied and nervously waited out “between pictures” idleness. And there along with the story, just as she said, was a photo of two little girls – and one of them was named Patricia.īuilt in the 1920s, the Normandie Village competed with the Garden of Allah, farther east on the strip, for Hollywood-type history. I couldn’t find any real photographs of the Normandie, which stood at 8474 Sunset Boulevard, but discovered that a fire did occur there in 1955. Well, when she mentioned the Nomandie Village, I knew exactly what she was referring to – a jumble of peaked-roof French Provincial apartments that at one time drove up its chimneys and shingles from the cascading hillside on the Sunset Strip. I doubt that the complex survived at all, but I would love to see any old photos, and just to know the street address it was at!” - Patricia There was a fire, probably in 1953 or 1954? I was only 4 or 5, but I remember it, and that a neighbor and I ended up in a photo in the Los Angeles Times. It cannot have been expensive because we lived there when my family was very broke. I believe it was on, or near Sunset Blvd. “Hi, I am trying to find out about a complex of Hollywood bungalows from the late 40′s early 50′s called Normandy or Nomandie Village. ![]() That happened the other day when Patricia asked about an old apartment complex she lived in as a child called The Normandie Village: I love the challenge when a reader requests information about an old landmark or some obscure Hollywood institution. Once stood near the upper left part of the photo The Sunset Strip - where the Normandie Village Apartments READERS REQUEST The Normandie Village Apartments
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