Previously, I talked about the homes where Walt lived in and around Hollywood. For this column, I am going to share the locations of the various Disney Studios where Walt worked.

Again, let me remind readers that these are privately owned places, not tourist locations, even though two of them gladly welcome customers.

Uncle Robert Disneys Garage, 4406 Kingswell Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90027

In September 1923, Walt was living with his Uncle Robert (the younger brother of Walts father, Elias) and was unable to find any type of work at the Hollywood live action motion picture studios.

Frustrated, Walt decided to try to get back into doing animation as he had in Kansas City.

Walt bought an old used camera that was not in the best of shape, for $200 from a local Los Angeles camera shop.

His older brother Roy had given Walt $10 to make up some business cards and letterhead paper proclaiming Walt Disney, Cartoonist and using Uncle Roberts address as the location for his art studio.

Walt asked Uncle Robert if he could set up his studio in the garage adjoining the house. Robert charged Walt an additional $1 a week to use the garage, in addition to the $5 a week rent.

Walt had to tear up dry-goods boxes and find spare lumber to build a very crude camera stand and animation set-up. The equipment would not accommodate anything more complicated than the simplest of animation.

Walt went to see Alexander Pantages, who owned a theater named after him, the Pantages, in downtown Los Angeles, as well as several other theaters. Walt pitched the idea of doing a series of short 30-second joke reels, like the Laugh-O-grams he had done for the Newman theaters in Kansas City. These reels would be weekly exclusives to run during the newsreel that would help publicize Pantages theaters.

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A New Farm house in Queensland by Vibe Design Group. Photo: William Long

From a design business based in Melbourne, and in the first commission to renovate one of those traditional weatherboard Queenslanders that make the period suburbs of Brisbane so attractive, building designer Michael O'Sullivan has completed a project that has made the old house look more like its old self than it has for decades.

His New Farm clients had sought Vibe Design's input and out-of-towner status with the specific brief that they wanted a different story to what Brisbane-based architects were generally doing to update Queenslanders.

"They wanted a different interpretation," he says.

An original Queenslander in New Farm. Photo: William Long

What they have got in an addition that includesa new kitchen, master bedroom, several studies, and a stunning timber internal staircase that has enabled the removal of the front-of-house stairs, is a clarified and freshened frontage, albeit with an interesting new bracketing roof structure rising on the eastern side.

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O'Sullivan says this open-ended, squared-roof profile has several effects.

One is a "cradling" of the existing house, and the other is to allow the elegant lines of the original roof "to continue".

A stylish take on a Queenslander design. Photo: William Long

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FOODIE EMPIRE: Chez Sabine in Redlands now has dinner fare

Served all month, this French dessert called La Galette des Rois, at Chez Sabine in Redlands.

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Chez Sabine, a little French cafe at 615 W. State St. in Redlands, is generating a big buzz: merveilleux, magnifique, fantastique.

Those are the raves Im hearing from friends one of them a retired French teacher whos married to a Frenchman about this 2-year-old bistros sweet and savory crepes, omelets, sandwiches, salads, quiches and pastries. The special dessert this month is la galette des rois (kings cake), a buttery puff pastry filled with almond paste.

Now theres a new menu to drool over. Last week, the cafe introduced small plates paired with French and American wines, which will be regular fare 5-7 p.m. every Friday and Saturday.

Its a step-by-step approach to serving dinner, said Jeff Hecht, who owns the spot with Sabine Belhacene and her brother, Karim Belhacene.

The petite morsels will include a sort of pork pate called rillettes served with bread and mustard ($13), broiled goat cheese on toast topped with honey and herbs ($9) and a savory flan with mushrooms served cold with a tomato basil sauce and arugula ($9.50).

For information, call 909-793-2987 or visit chezsabineredlands.com.

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