How wonderful someone solved the puzzle. I am so glad that so many gave it a try and had so much fun. It pleases me to know that I caused some of you to lose sleep, pull out your hair, and learn something in the process. Congratulations. In response to the puzzle.
Lady Dalbin,
I took another eyeball stressing trip thru the mighty web and found
your structure in question, hopefully with all the answers.
The structure is the pagoda in the Yamashiro Japanese gardens that
were built in 1914 by the Bernheimer brothers the pagoda is 600 years old and
imported from Japan. In this garden were 30,000 varieties of plants,
waterfalls,goldfish (KOI), and a private zoo with exotic birds,and monkeys.
Originally the pagoda sat beside a lake with Australian black swans now the lake
is a modern swimming pool. During the great depression it was still open for
public viewing at a rate of 25 cents.
The camouflage was a disguise during the anti-Japanese time of WWII it was
turned into a boy's military school. In 1948 it was purchased by Thomas O.
Glover and was restored back to the gardens and is still being worked on by his
son.
The club in question was the 400 club which was headquartered at
Yamashiro in the late 1920's at that time Lillian Gish was a member. As for
Johnny Depp and Leann Rimes they are among the famous patrons of today.
The location of this non registered Hollywood historical place is
1999 N. Sycamore Avenue Hollywood, CA 90068.
Lillian Gish was a American stage, screen and television actress
whole career spanned 75 years from 1912 - 1987 born in Springfield Ohio U. S.
October 14, 1893 and passed away February 27, 1993 in New York City
As for a tie with a park in San Francisco I believe it
would be the Japanese Tea Garden in the Golden Gate Park which hold
the record for being the oldest public Japanese garden in the United
States. It was built and designed by Makoto Hagiwara in 1895 and he
resided there in the garden from 1895 - 1942.
As for the Capital Record Building which is at 1750 Vine St. Los
Angeles CA the spire on the top of the building has a aircraft warning light
that blinks out the city name in which it resides and which all this research is
about H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D in Morse code.
For those still looking for the answers I am sure a few more hours doing Google search will satisfy your curiousity.
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