Essanay studios

Small film studio started in Chicago in 1907. Essanay stands for swanson and anderson.the 2 primary owners and producers of the studios. Several years after opening in Chicago the studio open ed a branch in Niles canyon.ca just south of Fremont. It was here in the 1920s that several well known comedies of Charlie Chaplin were made
Essanay was eventually a absorbed by Warner Bros.relocated to Hollywood
And the rest as they say.

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If essanay studios hadn't relocated to southern California Fremont would have become Hollywood!