A self-drive tour of Los Angeles storybook houses
![The Egasse-Braasch House in Eagle Rock](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/cf8d5ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6292x4153+0+0/resize/1440x950!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2Ff5%2Fe1389f6b4a47a32ca0f291e90f7b%2Fla-photos-1staff-634787-hm-halloween-homes-04-mjc.jpg)
The Egasse-Braasch House in Eagle Rock, where renters Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote their Oscar-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.” (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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Humphrey Bogart’s one-time home in Beachwood Canyon, (Bogart was living in the house when his friend and neighbor Peg Entwistle committed suicide in 1932 by throwing herself off the Hollywood Sign). (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Egasse-Braasch House in Eagle Rock, where renters Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote their Oscar-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.” (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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Humphrey Bogart’s one-time home in Beachwood Canyon, (Bogart was living in the house when his friend and neighbor Peg Entwistle committed suicide in 1932 by throwing herself off the Hollywood Sign). (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Hlaffer-Courcier house, inspired by art director Harry Oliver’s Tam O’Shanter Restaurant. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Hlaffer-Courcier house, inspired by art director Harry Oliver’s Tam O’Shanter Restaurant. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 624 in Culver City. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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One of the Columbia Ranch Dwarf Houses on Hollywood Way in Burbank. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Columbia Ranch Dwarf Houses on Hollywood Way in Burbank. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
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The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 624 in Culver City, CA. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge.