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Capitol Tower and Nat King Cole

His neighbors wanted no undesirables. He agreed with them.

Collection: Los Angeles · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Capitol Records Building at sunset
Capitol Records Building at sunset · Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Signs reading GET OUT went up on the lawn every night. The lawn belonged to Nat King Cole, whose record sales earned this tower its nickname, The House That Nat Built. In the late 1940s he bought a Tudor brick mansion in Hancock Park, an all-white district a few miles south of here. More than a hundred lawsuits were threatened. A new property owners' association offered to buy the house from him.

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Visiting

1750 Vine Street, Hollywood. A private building. See it from the Vine Street sidewalk. The Hancock Park house is a private home, miles away, and not part of this stop.

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