On 06/22/2012 08:54 AM, Carl Pultz wrote:
> Foggy recollection: Capitol bought the Melrose Ave. studios, which had been
> a radio network facility - right? I read that the big room had fine
> acoustics, which they had a hard time replicating in the new tower studio.
> This comes from a book on Sinatra, so not from a technical POV.
>
Yes, the Capitol facility on Melrose Avenue had once been NBC's 
Hollywood facility. NBC later built a new "Radio City" complex in 
Hollywood, which opened in 1937 and which eventually supplanted their 
West Coast headquarters in San Francisco.

Capitol started in....1942, I believe, but I don't know what year they 
took over Melrose.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago