Former site of historic Balboa Film Studios at 6th and Alameda in Long Beach.  This facility was the one of the finest, most advanced motion picture studios in the entire country from 1913 - 1918.  Balboa had the largest glassed-in studio in the country and, at its height, 18 buildings stood here.  In addition to this property, Balboa also utilized acreage in Signal Hill, where outdoor pictures and Westerns were shot.  Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Baby Marie, Mabel Normand, and many other great stars were filmed here.  The shortage of theatrical outlets overseas during WW1 and the sudden discovery of oil in Signal Hill spelled doom for the studios.  The buildings were razed in 1925.