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And I'm pretty sure you can't recreate Chicago or New York very well with LA.
Except they do it all the time. Downtown LA is used to resemble NY or Chicago in commercials, movies, and TV shows all the time. Many times when they show a subway shot that is suppose to be in NYC it's actually LA's subway. So many movies I see set elsewhere like in Chicago or NYC will film on LA city streets for certain scenes. Most people don't even recgonize when they do that, but like many of us here we could probably point it out, I do it all the time. The building Jerry Seinfeld lived in on his show is actually an apartment building in the Koreatown section of LA, if they panned out farther you'd see palm trees next to it.
You can also see there is a Taco Bell directly across the street, complete with surface parking and deserted sidewalks. The only thing that resembles Manhattan in that neighborhood is the brick exterior on the building.
woh, I'm surprised LA has buildings like that. It still isn't like a CHI or NYC (and even other northern) though, because they would have busy streets and tall buildings, ansd wouldn't have a taco bell with a parking lot, like toughguy said.
woh, I'm surprised LA has buildings like that. It still isn't like a CHI or NYC (and even other northern) though, because they would have busy streets and tall buildings, ansd wouldn't have a taco bell with a parking lot, like toughguy said.
yeah but those aren't downtown, mostly in the southern industrial part of the city.
and that Taco Bell in LA isn't in downtown either. The downtown area of LA is dense with people in the streets and sometimes will double as Chicago or New York for TV or movies.
woh, I'm surprised LA has buildings like that. It still isn't like a CHI or NYC (and even other northern) though, because they would have busy streets and tall buildings, ansd wouldn't have a taco bell with a parking lot, like toughguy said.
They don't seem to have any shortage of people on this street in Downtown L.A. and plenty of tall buildings too. Stereotypes can be so hard to let go.
New pic. Downtown?
http://www.its-fun.net/emerald/ritz%20april%2016.jpg (broken link)
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