Biography | Walt Disney — The Hyperion Lot Where Snow White Was Drawn, Now a Grocery Parking Lot

People look for the studio in Burbank. The film that made the company solvent was drawn a few miles south, on Hyperion Avenue. On 6 July 1925 Walt and Roy Disney put four hundred dollars down on a vacant lot in the Ivanhoe Tract. Construction followed. By mid-February 1926 the move from Kingswell Avenue was finished. The address was 2719 Hyperion. From 1926 to 1940 the lot filled in: an animators' building, a sound stage, ink-and-paint rooms, vaults. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was made here and released in 1937. In 1938 the brothers put a deposit on fifty-odd acres in Burbank. The staff left Hyperion in 1940. The buildings that could be moved went with them. What stayed was sold. In August 1966 a wrecking crew took the rest down. Walt Disney died that December. Los Angeles declared the site Historic-Cultural Monument No. 163 on 6 October 1976. A marker stands. Gelson's Market later occupied the ground; the supermarket's posted address is 2725 Hyperion. The pin is the documented lot, not a studio tour. Photo: Walt Disney Studios, photographer unknown, public domain. The Hyperion courtyard in 1929.