Historian campaigns to have
Los Angeles location renamed Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley after the silent movie stars who filmed there
There’s a short alley in Hollywood, running east-west between Cahuenga Boulevard and Cosmo Street, which currently has more than 100 five-star reviews on Google. One user describes visiting the street as “akin to a Catholic entering the Vatican”. Another calls it “the Holy Grail of
Hollywood sites” and others have hailed it as “iconic”, “legendary”, “of monumental significance” and “sacred ground”.
There is a reason for these glowing reviews of a tiny strip of Hollywood real estate. This passage is featured prominently in three silent classics: Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), Buster Keaton’s Cops (1922) and Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! (1923). Film historian John Bengtson is leading a campaign to have the street named Chaplin Keaton Lloyd Alley and the recent surge of
Google reviews is the latest move in his crusade.