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Not Hollywood Hills.
Well there's a clue in the flora on display I guess. Indicating (as part of the name, though not in nature limited to one location) other than Hollywood. If that makes sense.
Stock Photo
Correct. Yes the palms as Palm Springs. Elrod House (named for designer Arthur Elrod) being Willard Whyte's summer residence from DAF as you proposed @j_w_pepper .
Last week from Long Beach I stopped on my way to birdwatching (and general sightseeing for paradise courting apocalypse at Salton Sea an hour drive further) to get as close as I could to Elrod House, Palm Springs. It's a gated community of course, so I wasn't able to approach from streetside. Took some images of the ridge line and closer looking upwward.
Currently tours of the grounds are not offered as done some years ago. Rented out for luxurious stays at days or weeks at a time.
[From the novel Diamonds Are Forever, I also swung by Tiffany’s house at the address 515 Via Lolo. As expected nothing to see from the street above wall and hedge. But I relished the connection.]
Glad I took this opportunity.
So this seemed most recognizable to me, reverse view.
Bert Saxby really went down hill after his run-in with the CIA.
Getting back to your "EDTRA" question once more, by which I was somewhat intrigued, I found that it is actually ERTRA, and what was left of the name BERTRAM above the entrance. I found a bigger version of the May 1945 photo:
Higher up in the facade it says "BIERHAUS BERTRAM". And here's also an old picture postcard from better days:
The building was only turned into a department store in the 1960s, keeping only the main facades, and at present is being refurbished to much of its previous state (https://agn.de/projekt/ansicht/revitalisierung-und-umnutzung-kloepperhaus-hamburg - sorry, the page is only in German).
Great detail for the images on the linked page @j_w_pepper .
I may have a chance to visit Hamburg and see it in person late August, will keep you posted.
From travel last month, something could ring a bell in this image.
There is something to key in on as well.
Right on @j_w_pepper it's the Maiden's Tower aka Kız Kulesi on the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul, Turkey, near the Asia side. Maybe a little unfair I used depth of field to flatten it into the horizontal city view and didn't show any water.
As you said seen in FRWL
and TWINE.
I viewed Maiden's Tower first from land on the Asia side. Then I took a ferry west across the Bosphorus Strait to the Europe side station (the image with the book has it in the background). Then caught a boat tour back across specifically to Maiden's Tower and walked all through the site and structure. Had an Americano and croissant there in the shop.