As with 'Hollywood Babylon", by the, now late, Kenneth Anger, it's all about yellow journalism for book sales & that is now used as 'click bait'. When a person does actual research, most of those ridiculous Hollywood stories are proved completely false & usually made up by the reporter as a sick form of attention seeking.
The one on Fairfax? If so, that wouldn't be far at all from the market, but maybe not the right time period? (sorry, my John and Paul investigative instincts kicked in there for a minute... I absolutely defer to your vastly superior knowledge here, but you've piqued my interest)
As with 'Hollywood Babylon", by the, now late, Kenneth Anger, it's all about yellow journalism for book sales & that is now used as 'click bait'. When a person does actual research, most of those ridiculous Hollywood stories are proved completely false & usually made up by the reporter as a sick form of attention seeking.
I used to live in Hollywood, so I got curious about the Ranch Market. There's a blog post on the history of it here, which you probably found already. https://martinostimemachine.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-hollywood-ranch-market.html
From what it sounds like here, it was a bit of a destination for the cool kids. There's a photo of Dean in front of it that the caption dates to 1955.
He parked across the street from it the day he died and was photographed there, but he was a regular at the Farmer's Market instead.
The one on Fairfax? If so, that wouldn't be far at all from the market, but maybe not the right time period? (sorry, my John and Paul investigative instincts kicked in there for a minute... I absolutely defer to your vastly superior knowledge here, but you've piqued my interest)