Whitley Heights: What Hollywood living was really the good old days

In the 1920s Rudolph Valentino and Francis X. Bushman lived just across the street from each other in Whitley Heights, on the small hill that rises above Highland and Franklin avenues.

Looking at the narrow street today, it is hard to imagine those flamboyant egos sharing it – Valentino in a phaeton with his silver cobra emblem and Bushman in hi lavender Rolls-Royce.