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Originally Posted by HossC
The car in 'False Alarms' is never seen with a license plate, but the damage does look consistent. Nevertheless, it's a fun short, and has a few outside locations.
I don't know which street this is. It's a static camera angle that the fire truck drives through.
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The building behind the "76" sign is at the NW corner of La Brea and Third Street and has been mentioned on NLA a few times.
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=31561
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5143/5...85820993_z.jpg
GW posted news of a December-1932 burglary by the "
Monkey Bandit" that included removal of 5-gallons of a controlled substance - wait for it - alcohol.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=10721 At one time, the NE side of La Brea (immediate right in image below) was
Paul J. Howard's Flowerland Nursery, then a car dealership and eventually a Ralphs market.
In exploring this intersection several things come to mind. Third Street seems deceptively wider than La Brea. Maybe this is due to the Streetcar as the center of attraction, or the absence of lane markings. The False Alarms ending shots of "2-lane" La Brea are odd because the street traffic is clearly moved over to accommodate the production. La Brea also looks like it has fresh macadam and/or center lane divider paint. Some of the street numbers seem to have changed over the years too. (Above and behind the N La Brea False Alarm shot is a sign for a Cafe. A few short blocks north at Beverly would have been the McDonnell's drive in.
"Majestic"
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psxmsujm0z.jpg
McDonnell's
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/F/SELP...ence=006500831
