Domestic architecture is the theme here – the stuff built in the Hollywood Hills, which is not like much else in the country.  The entertainment industry generates a lot of money, and people spent it lavishly – with mixed results.

Turn right on Mulholland and you find this.  David Gebhard and Robert Winter in their guide to architecture out here comment that Los Angeles may have more Streamline Modern buildings than any place in the world.  Here’s one:

A photo of Just Above Sunset essayist Phillip Raines cleaning Streamline Modern glass blocks, not here, but near Atlanta…

Note: The Lethal Weapon movies were produced by Ron Silver.  Does he hate second rate mid-century modern architecture?  Perhaps so.  He owns and is restoring the 1923 Frank Lloyd Wright Storer House just above Sunset Boulevard -  see these photos in these pages from last September.

Next door to the Lethal Weapon House is this thing.  Riggs pulled down the wrong house.