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While out and about racing up and down the streets of L.A. running my errands, I crossed paths with a movie set crew a couple of times on Angeles Vista Blvd in the View Park / Windsor Hills area while headed back to my domicile in the Diablo Mesa dark side of town. I popped off some photos and did a little of the- "get outta here you don't belong"- snooping around.
The word is someone has a deathwish and shot at a patroling L. A. County Sheriff's car off of Crenshaw on some side street. Don't know the rest of the story. LAPD & L.A. Unified School Dist. Police gave back up.
"We want to be free... Free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!" It started out with old classics and lowriders and Harleys converging on the bridge and a car show broke out. Then some knuckle head brought unnecessary attention to the whole thing by lighting a smoke canister / bomb. From the distance I guess it looked as if some one was doing a burn out. The L.A.P.D. comes and breaks up the show. But as the photos prove the SHOW still went on.... UNDER THE BRIDGE.
Burden had Metropolis II's cars specially manufactured in China to his custom specifications — unlike Metropolis I, which just used off-the-shelf Hot Wheels toys. "The original toy cars have very thin axles that wear out too fast," says Burden. Given that Metropolis II is supposed to run three days a week for the next 10 years, how will it avoid the "wearing out" problem? Burden's no-nonsense answer: "We made a lot of cars."
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Dragnet pedal car and driver in Lima, Ohio, during 1963.
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Produced from the original negative in my collection.
"The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent."
"Dragnet", the TV show (top), was just one of hundreds of times that the Los Angeles City Hall has been used as a filming location.
Back in the early '70s, Steve Tansy and Chuck Miller built the pint size cars with full size V8 engines, they were called " ZINGERS".
Los Angeles City Hall building. The building was designed by John Parkinson, John C. Austin, and Albert C. Martin, Sr., and was completed in 1928. Said to based upon the Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The concrete in its tower was made with sand from each of California's 58 counties and water from its 21 historical missions
Due in part to seismic concerns, prior to the late 1950s the City of Los Angeles did not permit any portion of any building, other than a purely decorative tower, to be more than 150 feet (46 m) high.[citation needed] Therefore, from its completion in 1928 until 1964, the City Hall was the tallest building in Los Angeles, and shared the skyline with only a few structures having decorative towers,
An observation level is open to the public on the 27th floor. The Mayor of Los Angeles has an office in room 300 of this building and every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:00am, the Los Angeles City Council meets in its chambers.
The building has been featured in the following popular movies and television shows:
Adventures of Superman: The building appears as the Daily Planet building beginning in the second season of the 1950s TV series. At the time the TV program was broadcast, the show's Daily Planet building (Los Angeles City Hall) was frequently confused with the similarly designed Pennsylvania Power & Light Building in Allentown, also built in 1928. Additionally, the exact design of this building is used as the Newstime magazine headquarters in the Superman comic books.
Alias: A CIA black ops unit is located behind a maintenance door at Civic Station.
Dragnet: The building appears as itself in the TV series. The first episode of Dragnet (1951) Season 1, Episode 1: "The Human Bomb", Original Air Date: 16 December 1951, was filmed at Los Angeles City Hall. It was embossed on Sgt. Joe Friday's famous badge number 714 that was displayed under the credits.
Perry Mason: The City Hall building appears in the view from Perry's office window. This has led viewers of the show to spectulate where the fictional office would have been located in downtown Los Angeles.[11]
Tower of Terror: In this 1997 made-for-TV movie, the main character's love interest works at a fictional newspaper, The Los Angeles Banner. The newspaper's logo is based on the top of the city hall.
Adam-12: During the seventh season opening credits montage, City Hall is shown directly at the end, as the building that officers Reed. and Malloy drive away from. It is also shown on the embossed badges numbered 744 (Malloy) and 2430 (Reed).
The 2003 Dragnet series used the L.A. City Hall building aerial shot and badge throughout its introduction.
War of the Worlds: The City Hall was destroyed in the 1953 film version (although the H.G. Wells book has the aliens attacking London, the setting was changed to Los Angeles for the film).
The building has also been featured in the following other media:
In the Midnight Club: Los Angeles video game as part of Downtown Los Angeles.
In the upcoming video game, L.A. Noire, City Hall is featured as itself in 1947 Los Angeles.
In Mission: Impossible, "Ultimatum" 1972: A thermonuclear bomb is planted under City hall in a sewer duct by a frustrated nuclear scientist in order to blackmail the US government into changing of its foreign policy and replacing some "corrupt" Congress and cabinet members. If demands are not met, the 50-megaton bomb will detonate, destroying all of Los Angeles County. The IMF must locate and defuse the bomb before it is too late.
In GTA:San Andreas video game as part of the city of Los Santos.
In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (Japanese manga series), the building serves as the headquarters for one of the main occupation armies of the antagonist Principality of Zeon, under Garma Zabi.
In Miss Murder, music video by the band AFI (April 2006).
In Escape From L.A., the building is shown sunken, along with the ruins of Los Angeles, as Snake Plissken operates his submarine toward the prison.
In SWAT 3, one mission has the player rescuing hostages and defusing a bomb within the top floors of the building.
It was the first week of school after summer and some knuckle heads do a drive by on a group of teens walking down the street across from Crenshaw High. Two were hit but thankfully no one was killed.
The cowardly perpetrators that shot this young man don't need a reason.... Pay back.... mistaken identity.... wearing the wrong colors.... walking by your self..... walking in a group.....maybe he looked like a rival... so lets just Blast him any way..... what you looking at?..... hey lets not forget the young deaf woman and young deaf man that were gunned down when they were signing one another because the dumb ass thug thought they were throwing up gang signs. Our justice system is too slow, we need to execute these cold blooded murderers, execute them even if their victim lives so they can't contaminate the rest of the planet, OHH I'm sorry did I say something politically incorrect? Ask me if I care.
In memory of George Stamouvlasis 1928-2013.
George you will truly be missed. He immigrated to the U.S. from Greece. In 1965 he and his wife opened up Capitol Burgers on the corner of Pico Blvd and Victoria Ave, in Los Angeles. He served up the best pastrami sandwiches, french fries/chili fries and chili dogs in town. The burgers were excellent but they took a back seat to his pastrami sandwiches. In my opinion "Johnny's Pastrami" in Mid-City - Los Angeles, and "Johnnie's Pastrami" in Culver City and "The Hat" in Pasadena and Simi Valley can't touch "Capitol Burgers" pastrami sandwiches.
George's family still runs the place, so drop by and say hello and grab a pastrami sandwich or burger or both.
The Brown Stone Lofts soon to be open. In the 30’s and 40’s, The Brownstone was the place to be and be seen. Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and countless others stayed and played here. Anthony Quinn lived in Suite 318.
Thank God the bank was closed.
"HEY, FOOL! YOU BETTER SLOW THAT CAR DOWN! DON'T COME DRIVING DOWN THROUGH HERE LIKE YOU CRAZY! THIS A NEIGHBORHOOD -- THIS AIN'T NO RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT! You could have killed that sign, anything! I ain't a-playin' with you. I'll put a hurtin' on you, boy. (Willie the wineo aka Richard Pryor)
Miss K on stage with tha Killaz at indie club Kitsch Bitch, which on this occasion was held at Madame Jojo's. It was our last gig with Jasmine and our second-last ever. Photo: Sarah Demetriou. Originally appeared in Miss K's Killaz flickrset.
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Here's the second screenful of this week's trannyflickr faces project.
1. She wore a veil, she looked good in black, 2. Mole..., 3. Drama, 4. ■ RADIOLAND, 5. IMG_1593, 6. New outfit, 7. Untitled, 8. Headache, 9. Tranny RAGE!, 10. No photoshop here!, 11. IMG_6573, 12. lilith_tigress06, 13. close up, 14. A CENTURY (÷2) of,, 15. Relaxed, 16. Self, 17. zwischenstand..., 18. Untitled, 19. new dress in black and white 4, 20. 'morning, 21. DSC_0643_a, 22. latex gail 015, 23. Goodnosh, 24. Glitterdork, 25. Auburn, 26. For the Trannyflickr "faces" project, 27. Red Top Close Up, 28. I'm too old for this, 29. P7010305, 30. happy to see u seeing me
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.