great flick for the old car buff!!
Lots of exteriors, lots of traffic, a real time capsule, scenery predating the urban sprawl monster!
shareSo was "Vertigo", when James Stewart rode around the streets of San Francisco.
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Great location film! I grew up in Los Angeles, born in 1948; and I
remember when Los Angeles looked like that. I am addicted to films
that have great scenes with old Los Angeles. The city had such character
then....unlike now.....the urban sprawl monster....as you so aptly put it.
"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
Yes. How many Studebakers do you see roaming the streets nowadays?
shareIf you want to see old cars, watch the re-runs of Highway Patrol on THIS TV 5am
et. In fact a lot of the outdoor locations of this movie reminds me of Highway Patrol.
Also, it's fun to catch an adress and google map it and see how things have changed. Or haven't.
shareI do exactly that! At the beginning of the film, it shows a street sign indicating we're at the corner of the 1300 block of S. Roxbury Dr. at W. Pico Blvd. Using Google Maps's Street View, man, that area has changed. On that corner now is an Arco gas station (probably the same corner as the Standard Oil station in the film), a parking lot for a Chase bank branch, a Community (Walgreens) Pharmacy, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Everything up and down both streets is SO different now.
I also liked to do the same thing with "Adam-12" re-runs when it was on the Me-TV channel. One could pause the DVR and make out the street signs at times. I was surprised a lot of times how much hadn't changed from that era, mostly in residential areas.