Summary: <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.homestoriesla.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_18711-e1447629473251.jpg"></a><br> The venerable <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-beat-villa-carlotta-20150130-story.html">Villa Carlotta</a> — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians — sits, a hollowed-out shell, on Hollywood’s Franklin Avenue. It may or may not be about to undergo a transformation into an upscale hotel. What happens to a community when it’s driven from the place where it’s made a home? One resident stubbornly hangs on, battling for the soul of a building that once buzzed with life and energy.<br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.homestoriesla.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_1835.jpg"></a><br> MUSIC:<br> <br> * “Home,” by Henry Hall and his Gleneagles Hotel Band<br> * <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Marimba_Vibraphone_Chimes__Bells/Twine">“Twine,”</a> by Podington Bear<br> * “It’s All Forgotten Now,” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra<br> * “Tuesday’s Tune,” by Herschel Burke Gilbert<br> * “Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor,” by Johann Sebastian Bach<br> * <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEaGpSl1o7k">“Zombie,”</a> By Johnny Fever (Sam Fuller)<br> * <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/">“Csm,”</a> by Podington Bear<br> <br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.homestoriesla.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_1837.jpg"></a><br> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/www.homestoriesla.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_1841-e1447629494277.jpg"></a><br> Photos, top to bottom:<br><br> Carlotta exterior 2008 by <a href="http://www.stinsoncarter.com/">Stinson Carter</a>. <br><br> Carlotta lobby 2015<br><br> Carlotta lobby 2014 by Stinson Carter<br><br> Carlotta courtyard 2014 by Stinson Carter<br><br> Carlotta courtyard 2015 <br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.homestoriesla.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/IMG_1894.jpg"></a><br> Thanks to Sylvie Shain (above). For more information on the campaign to save the Villa Carlotta, see its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/savevillacarlotta/?fref=ts">Facebook page</a>.<br> <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/01/villa-carlotta-renovation">Read</a> Stinson Carter’s excellent piece about The Carlotta in Vanity Fair.<br>
