The Parkwood Estate & Gardens was built in 1916 for the founder of General Motors, Samuel McLaughlin.

The home served as the filming location for the 1995 Adam Sandler film Billy Madison.

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Down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) lives at this Mediterranean-style apartment complex in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

The apartment building still stands.

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Former screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) lives in a dilapidated mansion at "10086 Sunset Boulevard", when struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) hides from creditors here in the 1950 film Sunset Blvd.

The house that was used for the filming was actually at the corner of Crenshaw and Irving. The mansion was originally built in 1927 for the US Consul in Mexico, William O. Jenkins. Interestingly, Jenkins was kidnapped and held for ransom while on the job.

After the house lay abandoned for 10 years, it was purchased by oil man Jean Paul Getty for his second wife. After their divorce, she was the one who rented it to Paramount Studios for the filming.

The house was torn down in 1957 for the Getty Oil Building (now called the Harbor Building).

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At several points during Joe Sacco's "cartoon journalism" graphic novel, Safe Area Goražde, he references the ongoing Dayton Accords that war-weary Bosnians watched on TV.

The Dayton Accords (or the Dayton Agreements) were negotiations held between the various actors of the 3.5 year war in the Balkans. The meetings were held at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, and the signatories included:

Slobodan Milošević
Alija Izetbegović
Franjo Tuđman
Bill Clinton
Jacques Chirac
John Major
Helmut Kohl
Viktor Chernomyrdin

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Edith Masefield was living in this small cottage in the fishing village of Ballard (near Seattle) when she was offered $1 million from developers to tear down her home to make room for a Lifetime Fitness and Trader Joe's. She refused the offer, and the "mixed-usage" commercial building engulfed the rest of the block, but her house defiantly remained.

As William Yardley at the New York Times put it: Ms. Macefield’s refusal to sell her house made the news more than once. In a city knotted over its shifting identity, she seemed a familiar face, old Seattle, vulnerable but resistant to the march of gentrification and blandness.

Edith Masefield spoke English, French, German and Italian. She was the cousin of Benny Goodman, and she played the clarinet and sax. She self-published a book that was 1,138 pages long called Where Yesterday Began un

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