Harold Lloyd Estate (Greenacres)

A prop bomb took Harold Lloyd's right thumb and index finger in 1919. He wore a prosthetic glove for the rest of his life and kept doing his own stunts in it, including hanging off the clock face in Safety Last four years later. He built this in the late 1920s and stayed until he died in 1971: forty-four rooms, a nine-acre golf course, a canoe run. He left it to the public as a film museum. The neighbours objected to the buses, and it was auctioned in 1975 and subdivided.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Santa Monica Pier — 6.8 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 16 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 18 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Portolá Trail Campsite (2) — 3.4 mi
• Serra Springs — 3.5 mi
• Hancock Park-La Brea — 4.4 mi
• Campo de Cahuenga — 5.1 mi