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retrowavelength <retrowavelength@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:555ECCC3.5030800@yahoo.com:
> >For those of us not paying attention years back,
> >where does the name "Spider Pool" come from?
>
>
> The Spider Pool locale was a fanciful Hollywood Hills estate (a
folly?)
> assembled mostly by Mr. Jack McDermott back in the 1940s-1050s.
>
> According to the tales, one of the Jack's jobs was to scout outdoor
film
> locations, and some of his property was used to construct movie set(s)
> but to standards that made them more permanent than typical fake sets.
> Part of the site was a tiled swimming pool area with a large tiled
panel
> that may have been a manmade waterfall. The panel depicted a huge
spider
> web and spider with a fly or wast entrapped. The estate was used for
> years by pros and amateurs as a photo shoot site. It eventually was
> forgotten but in 2004 a few of us nuts in this group began analyzing
the
> backgrounds of the old photos to see of the site could be discovered.
> Many of the initial researchers spun off a Yahoo group, The Spider Pool
> Research Group. Eventually, the location was discovered and though the
> pool and almost all of the tiles are gone, the panel and some of the
> attached tile walls were still there. The Spider Pool Research Group
> still soldiers on today seeking info on other photo sites and
> photographer and model information.
>
> There used to be a website dedicated to explaining the Pool and its
> history but I haven't looked for it in a long time.
>
> I'm including some pics of the old site and some more recent.
>
> --rwl
>
Very cool.
And may I say that these pics are the first I've seen where I can see the
spider. (That kind of explains a lot in itself.)
Thanks very much for your trouble.
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