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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I remember going to the top of the Bonaventure for drinks in the 1980s.
It revolved very sloooowly. My friend and I thought it was great. Does it still revolve?
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Yes, it does and coincidentally, the Bonaventure's pool deck makes a teensy cameo in Collateral.
As the East Los Angeles Station has come up again, I wanted to bring
GW's excellent screenshot post of
The Postman Always Rings Twice forward to remind us of happier,
noiry days at the little station. It still stands, still boarded up and shorn of all context at 5480 Ferguson Dr, Commerce:
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
I was mixing up Lana with Barbara as far as whose husband was dropped off in East L.A.--Barbara dropped hers off at the Tropico station (rebadged "Glendale" for Double Indemnity). Lana's husband Nick was dead by the time of the train station scenes with Audrey Totter when Lana arrives back from Iowa... anyway, the station in Postman was indeed the East Los Angeles station. Here are some screenshots:
All pics Warner Bros. |
There's a nice undated shot
here showing the station covered in creeping fig