Mt. Olympus, Los Angeles

[4] A 2013 edition of the Rough Guide to Los Angeles described the development's design as an "exercise in 1970s vulgarity that is to Neoclassical architecture what a toga party is to ancient drama, with faux palazzos, pseudo-Roman statuary, goofy marble urns, and snarling stone lions added pell-mell to charmless stucco boxes".

[5] One architectural history of California described it as "reminiscent of Las Vegas casinos" with slightly smaller lots and a tackier look compared to Trousdale.

[9] An 1894 newspaper article datelined "Little Mount Olympus, Los Angeles County" mentions establishing a spring in Laurel Canyon in 1875.

[8] The developers were Russ Vincent and Al Hess, who simultaneously marketed tracts called Hollywood Oasis, Dor-Mar Estates, and Willow Hills North.

[11] Early reports had it that scraping flat building sites out of the hill would require moving 12 million cubic yards of earth.