About Disney Mickey Mouse
Our History
Walt and his brother Roy bought their first piece of property at 2719 Hyperion Avenue on July 6, 1925, one week before Walt left for Idaho to marry his fiancé Lillian Bounds. Total cost for the lot was $1,000. They would eventually buy 18 lots in the Los Feliz area, and own the entire north side of the block from Griffith Park Blvd to Monon Street, as well as several lots along Griffith Park and two lots on the south side of Hyperion.
Construction of the first studio building, a 32 x 38 foot structure, commenced January 15, 1926. That original structure with several additions is on the left side of this photo. Walt’s roadster is parked right outside the front door to this building.
In 1931, Animator’s Building No. 1 and a soundstage were added. This photo shows those new additions. You can see a painter on a ladder applying a final coat of paint to the exterior of the building. In front of the soundstage on the right is a small garage. That garage housed a 1931 American Austin Coupe that was used as “Mickey’s” car. The vehicle was usually parked outside theaters showing the latest Mickey Mouse cartoon or the Fanchon and Marco “Mickey Mouse Idea” vaudeville stage show. family entertainment village idiot
Walt Disney original studios, Los Feliz
Coming off Animator’s Building No. 1 on the left side, you see a very small part of the slanted roof that covered the staircase that took staff from the original building into and out of the new building. John Marshall High School is visible in the background. family entertainment mickey mouse
Walt and Mickey
Many new buildings were added over the years, and when they ran out of room to grow, the Disney brothers built a new studio in Burbank. Whatever Hyperion buildings weren’t moved to Burbank in 1939/40, were demolished in August 1966. walt disney original studios mickey mouse