Episode 359- A Store in Hollwyood About Forgotten Parts of Hollywood

Guest host James Lott Jr talks about a Store, Counterpoint Records and Books, in East Hollywood that has grea rare finds. He showcases two of the things he found.
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Executive Producer -Doug Hess

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's go Bye Forgotten. Welcome to another edition of Forgotten Hollywood.
I'm actually coming to you from Hollywood. I'm James Lott,
junior guest host. Doug Haster is on assignment, like literally
really is on assignment. I couldn't make it for this episode,

(00:23):
so it's me. Well again, you seem to like me
sometimes when they come in here, but I'm here just
to help keep this huge hit show for us that
Doug has produced and put together and created today's episode.
It's slightly do it because I'm coming to you from Hollywood, California,
and it's not Forgotten. I want to tell you about

(00:45):
a store. It's called Counterpoint Records and Books, and you
go to counterpointla dot com for details. But they have
a whole section of records books, including Forgotten Hollywood like gems.
I have gotten several things from there. Records, tapes, yeah,

(01:10):
tape folks, eight tracks, CDs, cassettes, reel or reel. They
have special books from hot from Hollywood projects, scripts. They
have special books on on Forgot, parts of Forgotten Hollywood
and stuff. It's a great book. It's in East Hollywood,

(01:33):
so it's on five nine to nine. There's Nope, that's
like I said, forty nine eleven Franklin Avenue. It's across
thereat from Big Gelston's Mark which is are our big
one of our big grocery stores. Here they have new
nused and there's a couple of things that I got
that I'm really really proud of that I wanted to
share with you guys. One I found for a dollar. Now,

(02:01):
if you listen to my show, have you heard of me?
I did a special on this album. It's by the stylist.
It's called Heavy. It's a rare album but then get
a lot of attention. It's in great condition for being
fifty years old, and the stylistic is obviously yeah. But
you're by Gally Wow and all these Breek kids back then.
There is an album that wasn't a hit and it's
a great condition. It's used by me. It looks almost

(02:23):
new and I got there for a dollar. They have
a whole section of vinyl and stuff. And also speaking
because we've talked about them on this show in the
previous episodes. Back in the day, the Barrymores, it's called
the Barry Moores, Hollywood's first family. Ford by Leonard Malton

(02:44):
and I'm gonna tell about something about that in a second.
But it's by Carol stein Hoffmann. It's a giant I
mean like giant heavy. It's gonna use it's gonna use
that as a as a weapon, cocktail cocktail book, a
table book, and beautiful pictures, Oh my goodness, and the

(03:04):
whole stories. It includes Drew because a lot of things
I've seen from the Barrymore's and they don't usually include
Drew in their but they include the include her father,
and they include Drew. It's a great picture of all
the Barrymore is back in the back in the day.
Leonard Malton wrote this in the back of the blurb

(03:27):
John Barrymore, his extraordinary family remained a source of endless
fascination to me and to many others as well. The
idea that one of the twentieth century's greatest actors was
a reluctant thespian and that his equally celebrated brother would
have been content to paint and compose music is all
part of the mystique. Isn't that same sense of discovery

(03:49):
on a personal, first hand level that makes his book
so rewarding. Even familiar passages of the very Moore saga
have new life in this telling. Because of the unique material,
Hoffman was able to draw upon the many rare striking
and offer revealing photographs speak for themselves. It's by Leonard Malton.

(04:14):
Side note from me, we don't forgot Hollywood. Leonard Malton
of course, legend in the film credit business. Right. I
got to meet him. My story is, I was just
when I was a host producer at Afterbus TV, which
was located in North Hollywood. Yeah, there's a North Hollywood folks.

(04:34):
Uh and uh. I came in like I normally do.
My shows were a little later. Always came a little
early to get myself set up and and everything. And
I have all these bags with me. I'm a bag
Lady's all these bags with me, and I'm coming in wherever.
And I walked by. I see Leonard Moulton. We had
because we had a we had a we had four
studios and then we had some place to sit and

(04:54):
stand outside when you're a guest until you get pulled
into a studio. And I I was just like doing
my thing, and I was always let her momson and
they were talking to some younger woman and tried to
be his daughter, and I sat next to them. I
was there, These tables are back to back to each other,
and I got a table right next to her. Put
my stuff down and get myself together. And usually as

(05:17):
a general rule, they didn't want you to clump and
fan girl over them very much with their here force
my show, unless the host of that show when she
just wants wanted to take you around and show you
to meet people. Yeah, but you just kind of even
say hi, but leave them alone. So I usually have
people use it doesn't say much well because I was
very popular for the TV, and they, like you said,

(05:39):
because it was me, they didn't they didn't get upset
because it was because it was really organic. I started
talking to the daughter and then started talking to Leonard.
He was talking to me. He was sitting there and
started talking to me, and we started talking and he
was really nice, and we talked for about ten minutes.
As I was getting ready and post it together, and
she goes, do you want a picture with him? I said, yes,

(06:02):
I do, so we took the pictures together. It was
really great. And that was kind of frowned upon to
you there that mus see me a little bit. It
wasn't you know certain protocols were but he was like
the producers. They were like, Jay's it's you, It's James
On Junior, and we know you didn't you weren't trying anything.
And we heard him ask you do you want a picture?
And so it was fine because there's more for him.

(06:24):
He went to picture with it. I was a fan
and so I got pictures with Leon Malton. I have
my my pages somewhere James Jamidia somewhere. Super nice guy
and I just again alleged I got to meet him.
And that's a great one of the great things there.
Carol stein Hoffman is a painter, clinical art psychotherapists who

(06:47):
that is writer. She lives in the Central Coast. She
was saying that she calls this Hollywood for his family.
Spending over six generations, to continents and three centuries, the
family of actors that will be known as that Barry
Morris has become an emblem of the American stage and
screen from Elizabethan, England to present day Hollywood. There's never

(07:10):
been a more talented, romantic, and complex family tree. For
the Barrymoores. Acting was in their blood. So there's more
they writing there, of course towards the end, there's John.
Jack Barrymore would have traded acting for the life of
an artist, but with film he had found his medium.
The huge audiences of the movies brought him to fame

(07:33):
that is larger than life personally craved, and the luxury
of retakes accommodated his self professed lazy character. John's marriage
to the beautiful young Angeenudlorus Costello, also of an acting family,
would be a Hollywood union at rival all others. Their
story of their first embrace during the during the scene

(07:54):
of the seabeast, a kiss that continued long after director
cut was the stuff of life, and their honeymoon to
the Galapaelos Islands provided a fitting fairytale escape. But the
story doesn't end there. Of their two children, son John
Drew Barrymore, collaborated on the book actually would follow in

(08:15):
the acting tradition, and his daughter Drew Barrymore rains today
as a savage child star turned screen idl and powerful producer.
I know also he currently done his book. Okay, the
pictures are amazing, you guys, the pictures are amazing. So
just you're a good chance to find it are for

(08:37):
yourself is great. But if you're a good chance you
find yourself in Hollywood. Go to East Hollywood. Frankment is
a major street in Hollywood. Take it all the way down.
Go east if you're coming from the west, or go
west you're coming east. And Counterpoint Records is cute record book.
Chos is cute store. My friend Tony Moore, friend of
James Media, also shot his short film there, Kevin. So

(09:00):
that's why I know about it. So I go there
on occasion. Find gems in there, like that book and
like that record, So check it out. Forgotten Hollywood is
a TV is a show. It's a TV show, it's
a it's a it's a show, it's a podcast sometimes
video show. But it's also a thing. There's a lot

(09:24):
of Hollywood that is simply just not talked about, some
things that were very popular, some things that weren't popular,
and all through Hollywood proper that there's no really city
of Hollywood. It's just kind of part of la we
called Hollywood. There are a lot of places that preserved
or that have some of these rare things you'll hardly
ever find. So if you have your list that that

(09:47):
movie you're looking for, or that CD or that tape,
or that song. Counterpart Records is one place to go
to check that out. And again they don't maybe they
don't pay me to say this or anything. It's just
it's just that it's a want to share knowledge to
the forgotten Hollywood community. And if you're in La, go there.
And once we get Dug to La, I will take

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it up. Today we take it as alway taken them
to this episode three f Romos at three sixty. We
are off Labor Day. We will talk to you next time.
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