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464 STEMBRIDGE

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464 STEMBRIDGE
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“The Stembridge Story” Stembridge Gun Rentals was the armory for Hollywood’s most famous motion picture and television productions, which was started by James Sydney Stembridge and was originally located on the Paramount Studios lot through an arrangement influenced by legendary motion picture producer Cecil B. DeMille, who had the foresight and business sense to aid his friend James Stembridge in creating this legendary Hollywood arsenal. The business was started shortly after World War I and at its height the arsenal contained 10,000 guns. Had the Japanese attacked the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, the Armory was prepared to provide a full-range of arms from Wheelocks to machine guns in order to defend the nation. James Stembridge died in 1942, and his nephew, Ed Stembridge, who had joined the company in 1933, supervised the Armory for in excess of 50 years when Sid Stembridge assumed leadership. Sid Stembridge operated Stembridge Gun Rentals, Inc., which he created after the sale of the Armory