Progress Log

Sept 6-, 2021

Begin and finished work on the 7250 Santa Monica Blvd. page
Completed the King Vidor mogul page
Rework a number of Fort Lee pages, photos, and maps
Re-restored several photos

July, 27-Aug. 10, 2021

Completed Sant Monica and Las Palmas studio. Composed all text, restored photos, designed page and all elements.

Mid December, 2020 through mid July, 2021

Hiatus
(I need a break)
Did several small projects, eventually grinding to a halt due to Pandemic Burn-out.

Continued 10202 Washington Blvd.
Starting slowly mid-Feb
Rebuilt several pages
Redesigned several pages
many new restorations adding them to existing pages
Began 9336 Washington page.

December, 2020

Continued 10202 Washington Blvd.
Redid several logo restorations

November, 2020

Finished Ince portion of 10202 Washington page
Began Goldwyn section of same
Continued Sam Goldwyn page
Redesigned Moguls page
Did more restorations, and redid other restorations
Reconfigured entire photo restoration gallery
Sent restorations to Marc Wanamaker
Began Jesse Lasky mogul page
Began Cecil B. DeMille mogul page

October, 2020

Finished 846 Cahuenga page
Began reading Essanay Niles book
Began Essanay Niles page
Began Culver City page
Update and expanded Thomas Ince page
Began 10202 Washington Blvd (MGM) page

September, 2020

Finished Metro Pictures page
Extensive photo restorations, including dozens of Metro photos, dozens of Keaton photos, and more
Started 846 Cahuenga page

August, 2020

Finished 201 Occidental page
Finished Lewis J. Selznick page
Completed Oz-National page
Completed Robbins Photo Plays page
Completed E&R Jungle Films page
Recreated or modified timeline pages
Restructured, renamed and relinked many Hollywood pages
Recreated dozens of template pages
Started Metro-Lone Star-Keaton
More restoration do-overs
Created a new side-by-side display format for restorations
Installed broken link plugin, and corrected about 100 broken links
Recreated many template pages

July, 2020

Started Lewis Selznick page
Started Samual Goldwyn page
Started David O. Selznick page
Modified Peerless-World page
Modified Fox-Triangle Fort Lee page
Modified Fort Lee main page
Modified the Bison/Sennet page
Complete rebuild of Before and After Gallery page
Over a dozen restorations redone with new techniques
create "Page Loading overlay
Create "Page in Progress" popup

June, 2020

Finished Sunset and Virgil page
Finished D.W. Griffith page
Started 201 Occidental page

May, 2020

Continued Sunset and Virgil page
Began DW Griffith page

April, 2020

Finished Selma and Vine
Started Sunset and Virgil
Reorganized personal studio photo collection
Repaired and reconstructed several pages

March, 2020

Continued Selma and Vine page

February, 2020

Continued Melrose and Bronson page,
Finished Melrose and Bronson page
Started Selma and Vine page

January, 2020

started Melrose and Bronson (Zukor, et. al.). Making great progress when I discovered significant corruption of several pages. After fixing them, explored the entire site discovered minor corruption of several more pages,
Stopped all work to fix corruption. Though I do a site wide backup daily some corruption predated the oldest of the backups. Began a process of making backups of of each fixed page individually.
Did a major reconstruction and addition to American Film page as I fixed the page.
Restarted Melrose and Bronson page.
Paused Melrose page again to repair and expand Balboa page, and several other pages.
Restarted Melrose page again.

December, 2019

Finished 1425 Fleming (Monogram et. al.)
Started and completed Talmadge and Prospect
Did another dozen or photo restorations, plus a bunch of logo restorations and recreations
Started several company main pages
Executive decision to skip mogul pages for now and pick them up at the end to move more quickly through the Hollywood studios

November, 2019

From this point on each entry takes longer as each lot has a complex history with many owners and a changing lot configuration.
Finished Ince page
Finished Santa Monica page
Started 1425 Fleming (Monogram et. al.)

October, 2019

Finished Biograph downtown page
Completed 6101 Sunset/Nestor page
Competed Vitagraph Santa Monica
Completed Inceville Santa Monica
Added to Vitagraph main page
Began Kalem Santa Monica
Began Thomas Ince page
Suffering through 2 weeks of no electricity or internet. Completed about two dozen photo restorations.

September, 2019

Finished Balboa page
Revisited Radford page
Updated Republic Studios with new photos
Revisited 1712 Allesandro page
Update Keystone section with new photos
Completed Biograph downtown page
Started Biograph main page
Added to Kalem page

August, 2019

Finished Kalem page
Began Balboa page
Made many restorations

July, 2019

Contacted Marc Wannamaker, our foremost authority on studio history. He has agreed to act as an adviser for the site.
I spent the better part of June making money, and reorganizing my data to prepare for starting the Hollywood studios.
Created the Nestor/Christie page
Several more photo restorations
Created Hollywood sub-page
Created Burbank-Glendale page
Created page for Kalem-Glendale
Created Kalem main page

June, 2019

A month or organizing and doing money making projects.

Made a trip to Los Angeles Public Library (400 mile trip) to obtain a library card which granted me access to their on line map library. Was able to update the property boundaries on a number of studio sites.

Reorganized several lists of Hollywood studios, including a fresh list of studio construction by date. This will go to a master list or slide show on the main Hollywood page.

May, 2019

Moved the site to a new server and spent much of the month working out server problems. Also needed a break from development stuff. Did manage to download some new material, did a couple of photo restorations, discovered true property boundaries for several studios, and started a redesign of the American Film page.

Spent much of the month focusing on money making work.

Made a decision to put Jacksonville on the back burner and move the focus to Hollywood/LA.

April, 2019

Finish Midwest maps
Start Studios by location main page
Start Jacksonville page
Finish Kalem jax page
Finish Lubin page
Finish Vim section of Lubin page
Finish Thanhouser page
Create Mega Menu
Redesigned Studios by location sub menu
Created timeline submenu
Redesigned timeline pages

March, 2019

Add details on American Film page
Completed Rothacker page
Complete Lubin Philly page
Complete the Siegmund Lubin page
Complete a variety of Lubin related restorations
Complete Chi-Philly main page
Complete Chi-Philly small studios page
Start Disney main page
Start Midwest maps
Moved site to new server

February, 2019

Expand and complete Selig Chicago page
Created several new restorations
Restructured Edendale pages
Restructured Time line page
Completed Essanay Chicago page
Completed American Film page
Restructured home page
Created new linking for time line and mogul pages

January, 2019

Completed Univ Fort Lee page
Completed Carl Laemmle page
Started Universal main and Universal City pages
Completed Pathe page
Completed several restorations and add to before-after
Completed Kalem page
Completed EK Lincoln
Completed Brenon-Ideal
Completed Peerless-World
Completed Universal
Completed Paragon
Modifications of many pages to remove borders from text boxes
Reworked home page: add links and add featured studio link
Completed Chapin
Completed Rambo's
Completed all Fort Lee pages
Revisit and update Edendale pages
Began Jacksonville
Expanded Neilan section of 1845 Allesandro page

December, 2018

Completed Fort Lee main page
Made modifications to Edendale main page
Resized images for movie making gallery
Created pages and links for all Fort Lee studios
Completed Champion page
Completed Mark Dintenfass page
Completed Centaur page
Completed Horsley page
Completed Willat Studio page
Did several photo restorations
Completed Eclair page
Completed Solax page
Completed Pathe-Fort Lee
Completed Peerless-World

November, 2018

Have taken a couple of weeks off. Busy with making money and I communicated with a couple of "authorities" about the studios at 1723 Allesandro. I have conflicting information and neither authority has gotten back to me, so I will write it up as conflicting info, including both accounts.

Created the Edendale 1723 Allesandro page.
Created maps of Edendale.
Reconciled my own conflicting misinformation on the size of the Sennett lot.
Edendale is now complete
Put together gallery of Movie Making
Begin gallery of photo restorations
Begin working on Fort Lee

October, 2018

Finish Edison, Sennett and Selig Bios.
Recreate Selig, Keystone, Sennett, Fox logos
Complete 1845 Allesandro/ Selig/Fox photo gallery
Complete Studio City page
Complete Studio City gallery
Create Selig Chicago page and gallery
Start CBS, 20th FOX, pages
Complete 1845 Allesandro page
Complete Wm Fox page
Complete Norbig, Pathe pages
Complete Mixville page

September, 2018

Create pages for Thomas Edison, Mack Sennett, and William Selig. Complete Sennett page.
Create pages for all 3 Edison studios, both of the Sennett locations, Bison 101, and two Selig Studios.
Create pages for 1712 Allesandro and start 1845 Allesandro. Complete 1712 page.
Create photo galleries for Sennett and Edison
Create master list of all studios.
Create timeline page.

Mid September took a break from page creator and began setting up a back end organizational structure. Researched plug-ins and found the necessary infrastructure. Spent the last two weeks of September just organizing and arranging data.

August, 2018

Create header and menu structure.
Create timeline page
Create templates for location and mogul pages
Create Before and After photo gallery of photo restorations

July, 2018

Create framework in WordPress, and design home page.
Upload a variety of images to get started.