Lasky Ranch, Los Angeles

Lasky Ranch, Los Angeles

The process of archiving old documents has a powerful component of Sherlock Holmes. The photos sometimes are either not labeled at all or labeled in a very cryptic or sometimes confusing manner. Sometimes they are in order, and therefore their relative position to other photos, better identified, allow for identification, and sometimes its as much as a guess as it is certainty.

"Lasky Ranch La" is what is labeled behind this picture. On the back is also "000 3" with the 3 handwritten. The three items right after it are the same size photos, with the same "000 3" on it, and therefore, I have assumed that the four photos were processed at the same time, and therefore are related to each other. But, if I accept that premise, to what are they related.

Lasky Ranch was a Movie Ranch, where the studios would go out to the San Fernando Valley and build sets and do outdoor action scenes and recreate things, like a World War I setting. This would account for the fact, that the pictures depict what appears to be a French castle and a World War I airplane. SO IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THESE FOUR PICTURES were all taken by someone, Hi? Sasha?, during a day trip to the Lasky Ranch in the Los Angeles area.

That´s my story.

The Lasky Ranch is an interesting story. It was the site of many silent movies made by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd
https://silentlocations.com/tag/lasky-ranch/
and was moved, rearranged, and moved again, where movies such as Gone With The Wind, Mission Impossible, and, most recently Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which, if not actually filmed on the Lasky Ranch, depicted the use of Movie Ranches, when Brad Pitt returns to an area he knew well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ranch#Lasky_Ranch_%E2%80%93_San_Fernando_Valley_Providencia_Ranch

It is unknown who the two boys in front of the plane are.

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