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12.01.2009

3 more mistakes in Google Maps


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CONTEXT Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention.
The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport -- Renamed Bob Hope Airport in 2003.

Gemco -- Not a city just northwest of there, even if there's more cars surrounding this building than people in a small town

Vega -- I think this is pointing to someone's ugly car.

11.30.2009

3 more movies that show a real part of L.A. not commonly shown

NEWS ITEM "A Single Man" will show a niche of life in 60's Los Angeles.







"Mask" --Not the Jim Carrey movie, but the Peter Bogdonovich movie shows San Gabriel Valley and other north county areas; foto via IMCDB







"Repo Man" -- Lots of now seemingly archival locations throughout the Atwater region north of downtown; watch the trailer; foto via aric








"Real Women Have Curves" -- There's a great montage of East LA while the not-yet-a-major-star America Ferrera walks to her garment factory job; watch the trailer; foto via BlueGrassFilmSociety