Was the 2008 Housing Collapse Predicted by Hollywood? w/Phil W. Bayles

We're talking about the very real and physical place that is Hollywood, CA on this episode of Seemingly Unrelated. Why are the hills around Los Angeles filled with the rich and famous while the valleys are home to much more socio-economic diversity? Did film studios set up shop in Hollywood because of the weather? Has the 9th circuit court of appeals been holding back patent law for 150 years? Were the seeds of the Great Recession sown in the Great Depression itself?We dig into these questions with our special guest co-host Phil W. Bayles!Plus, the most famous billboard in the world tricked us all into thinking it was a legitimate piece of history. All this week on a star studded episode of Seemingly Unrelated.Here are those wild 9th Circuit Cases I mentioned in the episode: Click Here or https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.f1.067/page/n611/mode/2up#Hollywood #RealEstateScam #Edendale #BoyleHeights #UniversalCity #ThomasEdison #Hollywoodhistory #historypodcast #podcastBibliographyBelderrain, De, and Francisca Lopez. “THE AWAKENING OF PAREDON BLANCO UNDER A CALIFORNIA SUN.” Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California 14, no. 1 (1928): 64–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/41168829.“Boyle Heights and Its ‘Pioneer Aristocrats’ – Boyle Heights Historical Society.” Accessed October 13, 2025. https://bhhsla.com/boyle-heights-and-its-pioneer-aristocrats/.“Boyle Hotel (Cummings Block).” LA Conservancy, n.d. Accessed October 13, 2025. https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/boyle-hotel/.Chalmers Publishing Company. Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1910). With New York The Museum of Modern Art Library. New York, Chalmers Publishing Company, 1910. http://archive.org/details/movinwor06chal.Clinton, Craig. “Old Imprints- Southern California 1900-1935.” Old Imprints- Southern California 1900-1935, April 23, 2014. https://ilab.org/assets/catalogues/catalogs_files_1745_southerncaliforniarealestate_2014_04w.pdf.Edidin, Peter. “La-La Land: The Origins.” Week in Review. The New York Times, August 21, 2005. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/lala-land-the-origins.html.Electricity Magazine Corporation. Motography (Apr-Dec 1911). With MBRS Library of Congress. Electricity Magazine Corp., 1911. http://archive.org/details/motography56elec.“Federal Reporter (F1), Volume 067 : West Publishing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.” Accessed October 13, 2025. https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.f1.067/page/n611/mode/2up.Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights. “Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights: From Elite Suburb to Immigrant Enclave.” Accessed October 13, 2025. https://scalar.usc.edu/hc/jewish-histories-boyle-heights/from-elite-suburb-to-immigant-enclave.“Motion Picture Studios of California.” July 23, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060723010635/http://employees.oxy.edu/jerry/mpstud01.htm.Newspapers.Com. “Montpelier Morning Journal from Montpelier, Vermont.” February 3, 1913. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/404073993/.PBS SoCal. “This 1897 Film Was the First Movie Made in Los Angeles.” October 2, 2016. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/this-1897-film-was-the-first-movie-made-in-los-angeles.“Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List.” Accessed October 13, 2025. https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BensKid1909.html.Swartz, Mark Evan. Oz before the Rainbow : L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” on Stage and Screen to 1939. With Internet Archive. Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. http://archive.org/details/ozbeforerainbowl0000swar.The Homestead Blog. “Boyle Heights at 150 Postview: ‘Bringing Boyle Heights to the Front as a Residence District,’ Los Angeles Herald, 3 June 1906, Part Three.” April 4, 2025. https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2025/04/03/boyle-heights-at-150-postview-bringing-boyle-heights-to-the-front-as-a-residence-district-los-angeles-herald-3-june-1906-part-three/.The New York Times. “TimesMachine: Saturday October 2, 1915 - NYTimes.Com.” n.d. Accessed October 13, 2025. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/10/02/issue.html.