Hi Lester, Thank you for your response. I too thought that it might be a card parlor or something like that. Anyway, I have a copy of my greatgrandfather's, Benjamin Forrest Hadley's, WWI draft registration. He was 40 years old at the time and it lists his current employer as Famous Players Lasky Cor. and occupation as 'timekeeper'. It also has a checkmark in a box marked White and another checkmark in a box marked Citizen within another box marked Indian. I don't know what that might mean. I just happened to get this by accident from my cousin who was researching our grandmother for an adoption record. Melinda -----Original Message----- From: Lester M Powers [mailto:lesterps@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:45 PM To: SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Melinda Pickering Subject: Re: Famous Players Melinda Pickering asked: > Does anyone know what kind of business was "Famous > Players ..." located at Selma and Vine in Los Angeles, > CA in 1918? My g-grandfather worked there. This could perhaps turn out to be exciting, and thus my reply must begin with a scolding before getting to the good part (and the good part is GOOD!): Scolding: When will people learn to include little things like whatever "g-grandfather"'s name was? Sheesh! How are we supposed to snoop at the library with no name? Let's see, this looks like a good book here -- I'll just look in the index under "blank." Golly darn. OK. Now the good stuff. Upon a preliminary look-see, "Famous Players" was also known as the "DeMille and Lasky Barn." If the name DeMille sounds familiar, yes I believe this is the Cecil B. DeMille type of DeMille, as DeMilles go. Your great grandfather's "Famous Players" later became ---> Paramount Studios. <--- I'd say that's pretty good stuff for a family history. I would be *very* interested to know HOW you learned that great-grandfather worked at "Famous Players at Selma and Vine." There's just got to be more goodies here, though hidden. Lester Powers lesterps@juno.com PS: Yes, at first I *did* think that "Famous Players" must have been a saloon. Was I ever wrong! ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.