Hollywood Center Motel’s Seedy Past
- Dec 7, 2022
- 5 min read
Over the past century, 6720 Sunset Boulevard has seen murder, prostitution, rockstars … but it all began with a wife-swapping scandal!
Denver transplants Edmund and Blanche Scholtz bought the home in 1921 and added a bungalow court of several duplexes to the property between McCadden and Las Palmas. Their 17-year-old daughter Jane enjoyed the Hollywood socialite scene.
The next year, she married dancer-actor Walter Emerson, grand-nephew of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson—but three weeks later, wedded bliss was interrupted by statutory rape charges.