This shot was taken sometime before the 1971 earthquake:
Earl Witscher, Modernage Photo Service Inc.
Little Tokyo today:
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Interesting note: Sometime , I believe in the late 1980's, the building shown below was stripped down to the steel frame...
Earl Witscher, Modernage Photo Service Inc.
...and this was built up around it. I have no idea how they pulled it off.
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Some Little Tokyo noire (neo-noire actually)
This screen grab is from the 1975 movie Farewell My Lovely with Robert Mitchum playing Philip Marlowe. That is Jack O'Halloran playing Moose Malloy
Farewell My Lovely (1975) - E.K. Corp.
The scene was shot inside the Far East Cafe on First Street. The Far East Cafe was closed for a few years after the 1994 earthquake, and I
have not been in there since it reopened. Prior to the earthquake,
the interior still looked like the screen grab 15 years later.
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