THE NERD PAYOFF
Why This Pin Earned Its Place
Beaumont’s apartment is best understood as an event in a network: writers met, argued, traded work, and crossed between books, magazines, and The Twilight Zone.
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Informal writers’ salon
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Twilight Zone creative circle
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Exact apartment unresolved
PEOPLE AND IDEAS HERE
The Human Network Behind the Address
The apartment and period are documented in memoir and circle histories, but the exact building remains unresolved and is not mapped.
Charles Beaumont
1929–1967
resident · Approximately 1953–1957
Beaumont hosted writers at his upstairs North Hollywood apartment.
Interaction circle
• The Southern California Sorcerers included Beaumont, Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, William F. Nolan, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison.
LOOK CLOSER
The Gloriously Specific Details
Location history
• The apartment and period are documented in memoir and circle histories, but the exact building remains unresolved and is not mapped.
Interaction circle
• The Southern California Sorcerers included Beaumont, Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, William F. Nolan, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison.
Map disclosure
• The marker is a coarse area point, not the residence or parcel.
INTERPRETATION · HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
The apartment and period are documented in memoir and circle histories, but the exact building remains unresolved and is not mapped.
INTERPRETATION · IDEA NETWORK
Beaumont’s apartment is best understood as an event in a network: writers met, argued, traded work, and crossed between books, magazines, and The Twilight Zone.
UNDERSTAND THE PLACE
Context Without a Doorstep
Public location
North Hollywood (neighborhood context)
Hours
Not applicable to a context-only record. A related public institution may have its own event schedule.
Access
Private residence or private residential area. The public point is deliberately coarse; do not route to, approach, or photograph a home.
Map disclosure
The marker identifies a general area, not a house or parcel.
Photography
Do not photograph residents, windows, or private property, and do not linger.
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