Yet More on the Sennett Marker
If the bulldozers don’t get you, the taggers will… Not to beat a dead horse, but the EPHS News reports that Edendale’s Mack Sennett Marker will not only be preserved, but relocated to a more suitable site.
A lot has been made about the monument’s “misplacement.” The official address of Sennett’s old Keystone Studios was 1712 Glendale Blvd., a few blocks south of the marker’s 1830-1835 location. However, the studios weren’t confined to a single block. In reality they occupied a total of five acres fronting both sides of the Glendale corridor, then known as Allesandro. If the obelisk doesn’t pinpoint actual Sennett land, it’s probably not all that far off from the fringes of his former studio.
Plus, Keystone crews often filmed their hijinks throughout the immediate neighborhood (frequently to the annoyance of residents), as did several other studios up and down the street. Thus the marker’s inscription isn’t that much of a stretch: American movie comedy was indeed born here along Glendale Blvd.
Still, it would be interesting to do a title search on the 1830-1835 Glendale Blvd. tract — or uncover some other documentation about why this site was chosen for Sennett’s monument. The plaque was presented to him during an episode of the famous This Is Your Life television show. The location of his original studio was well known. I can’t imagine the marker landed here haphazardly.
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