Gower Gulch

[1] The Columbia Drug Store, which stood on the southeast corner for several decades, was a hangout for many western film extras in hopes of finding work, knowing the casting agents from the studio could reach them there.

The cowboy extras stood at the corner already dressed in their Stetson hats, boots, and bandannas, ready for saloon scenes, as cattle rustlers, or as members of a posse.

[citation needed] Charlie Chaplin made some of his first movies in this area.

[citation needed] In February 1940, actor Jerome Bonaparte "Blackjack" Ward became involved in a homicide on Sunset Boulevard at Gower Gulch, near Columbia Pictures studios when he shot and killed stuntman and background actor Johnny Tyke.

[1] The name "Gower Gulch" is painted on the side of a vintage western medicine show wagon.