I had always wondered why KFWB was in such a strange looking building. I saw some photos of its exterior and its old newsroom at
A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond a decade and a half ago. According to
PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions, it was a rather storied facility with a massive relevance to Los Angeles broadcast history. A worthwhile read for anyone who is curious.
Edit - I apologize if I'm contributing to the thread going off-topic. But I don't think off-topic background chatter really hurts a thread. It's not unlike audience members at a concert talking among themselves between performers' sets on stage. If anyone has their own L.A. dream dial to enumerate, just post it and people will engage with the subject again.
Thank you for your timely & important thoughts ! KFWB Los Angeles was an iconic rocker on famed Hollywood Blvd., as you can see in this 1966 photo of the station's 2 story building. Fans who came to visit were not allowed to go upstairs to the DJ booth on the second floor. I remember standing on the first floor, looking at the stairs and thinking how many sets of famous shoes had climbed those stairs, and how difficult it would be for the next generation of talent to fill those big shoes in the years to come.
As Michael Hagerty noted above, this building that housed the KFWB studios was knocked down after the 1994 earthquake and to this day, it's a vacant lot. The old towers are still next door on what used to be the Warner Bros. building, I think.
On the topic of going off-topic, I agree with you ! On another thread here, we currently have 275 messages, which originally started out as a comment about station KZOK playing a Pat Benatar song, which the OP feels is wrong for a classic rock station.
That has now evolved into a 14 page discussion on everything from Taylor Swift to Meghan Thee Stallion, to how Billboard counts streaming of songs for charting purposes, LOL. 😂 As you say - it's very much like concert-goers chatting between appearances of bands. It doesn't bother me, because I'm fascinated by all this, and I learn so much from every conversation.
When there is a group of highly extroverted people, especially on-air talent or content creators whose job it is to write material, they're going to do that, as they're naturally wired to be chatty and informative. It's like a dinner party, where the extroverts are skilled at making tangential dialogue which keeps the camaraderie moving forward. Camaraderie is part of what makes a message board so successful --- and just from looking at the number of members online, we can see that this board creates a lot of interest.
On the topic of Los Angeles, where I used to work downtown: Yes, like all giant cities, it has a share of grinding poverty, homelessness, drugs, and crime. Much of central Hollywood is tawdry - but I'm glad to hear that West Hollywood - WeHo-is still nice. Despite the problems. L.A. is still a magic city - and the music & entertainment capital of the world. I never tire of driving past the Capital Records building or the Television City complex in West L.A., or the Walt Disney Concert Hall, home of the L.A. Philharmonic. The L.A. beaches are gorgeous year round ( yes, they need to clean up Venice), the Hollywood Hills & Santa Monica mountains are wonderful for strolling and hiking; & the Palos Verdes Peninsula is stunning. The canyons whose cantilevered homes look down on the nighttime city, with its lights spread out like glittering electric marbles, are beautiful to drive at dusk. There's still much magic there, and all who would like to visit should make the trip out west. JMO 😊
