With boxer Ted Lewis, 1918

These photos were taken in front of the 10-room house that sat on the north-end of the Chaplin studio lot. When Chaplin purchased the property in 1917, this house was included and he had originally thought about living there, instead his half-brothers Sydney Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden each lived in the house for a time, as well as Chaplin’s valet Toraichi Kono. The house was demolished in the 1950s and a Safeway supermarket was built in its place.