A Saturday On Closed Down Hollywood Blvd - Pam’s Coffy & Vista Theatre / Crossroads Of The World

0:02 today's adventure

0:02 begins as the recording of this Saturday

0:05 December 7th

0:07 20 24 starting off here on the corner of

0:12 Sunset Drive well Sunset Boulevard and

0:15 Hollywood Boulevard oh actually

0:18 technically this is also Sunset Drive

0:21 where it connects with Sunset Boulevard

0:24 which becomes Hollywood Boulevard very

0:28 confusing

0:30 but Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard run

0:34 parallel to each other except for this

0:37 little spot right here these

0:40 Crossroads I'm going to start off here

0:42 and then I'm going to have myself a

0:43 Hollywood Boulevard day yeah definitely

0:46 a weird connection of road so you got

0:48 Hollywood Boulevard there you got Sunset

0:50 there you got

0:53 Hillhurst right there and then you got

0:55 Sunset Drive Right Here welcome everyone

0:59 out of the woo here it is nice it's

1:01 sunny out weather is good at the moment

1:03 a little warmer than it has been the

1:05 last couple days here in Soca at least

1:07 here in Los Angeles Hollywood I'm

1:10 inviting you to join me a little later

1:13 in the day 5 or 6 p.m. I need to go to

1:15 LAX Los Angeles International Airport

1:18 pick up my mom and dad who are flying in

1:21 from Florida got a family vacation

1:23 coming up soon they are arriving tonight

1:27 but before then Hollywood Boulevard day

1:30 I'm inviting you to join me shall you

1:34 current temperature at the moment at

1:36 11:52

1:44 71° one reason I started over here is I

1:44 wanted to check out the Vista theater

1:46 there's a new coffee shop that just

1:47 opened evidently Quinton Tarantino who

1:50 owns a movie theater few miles from a

1:52 here he has for quite a

1:54 while has evidently according to rumors

1:56 purchased the old Vista theater and is

1:59 start playing films in there as well and

2:03 a coffee shop has opened next door to it

2:06 so I'm going to get a cup of coffee from

2:08 there check out the Vista theater if

2:10 you're familiar with the punkin hardcore

2:12 scene you might remember an album lights

2:15 camera Revolution I believe the name of

2:17 it

2:18 was St right up here all the members

2:21 were standing right on the side of that

2:23 also DW Griffith Birth of a Nation

2:27 premiered here this was also the street

2:30 corner right on the corner of Sunset and

2:33 Hollywood where that massive one of the

2:37 biggest

2:38 ever sets that were

2:41 constructed by him was on this corner

2:44 they tore it down many many years ago

2:47 but they recreated it they have a little

2:48 homage to it over on Hollywood and Vine

2:52 now in fact the Holly the Hollywood and

2:55 Vine not Hollywood Vine the Hollywood

2:57 and Highland Hollywood and Vine's a few

2:59 blocks there I'm getting Sunset Vine

3:02 Highland all that confused Hollywood and

3:04 Highland is the Highland Center right on

3:06 that corner you know half a block away

3:09 from the Chinese Theater is they built

3:12 that set that looked just like that

3:14 abandoned set that used to be here the

3:16 biggest constructed movie set at that

3:20 time just a an epic an Epic film which

3:24 doesn't really get talked about too much

3:25 anymore fact they've removed the

3:27 placards and everything on the

3:28 recreation over there at that mall in

3:30 the corner of Hollywood and

3:32 Highland also a really great movie that

3:35 was filmed right here True Romance

3:37 tantino wrote it maybe my favorite

3:39 Tarantino film even though he did not

3:41 direct it I think he kind of was there

3:43 on set probably directing it the same

3:46 guy that directed Top Gun directed that

3:50 film but yeah right in this general area

3:53 was that massive set from DW

3:56 Griffith right over in here I haven't

3:58 pin boarded the exact

4:01 exact spot but it was on the corner of

4:03 Sunset and oh my gosh they're playing

4:06 Blazing Saddles here look at

4:09 that yeah true romance both the

4:11 characters are right here they saw a

4:13 movie they talked about getting some pie

4:17 they got some pie went on their first

4:18 date the coffee shop I want to check out

4:20 Pam's coffee right

4:24 there just

4:26 recently was I watched Pulp Fiction a

4:29 Samuel Jackson k kick

4:32 lately I watched Pulp Fiction I also

4:34 watched Snakes on a Plane on the flight

4:36 out here watch watching Snakes on a

4:37 Plane on a plane was definitely an

4:39 interesting choice then I also watched

4:41 Jackie Brown starring Pam Greer all

4:43 right much better than I expected I mean

4:45 really well themed in here I mean just

4:47 like a little Cozy Coffee Stand All

4:49 Around Pam Greer and some of her work

4:51 and some of the posters on the wall and

4:53 even have a little area over in the

4:55 section A lot of merchandise and things

4:56 in here as well and oversized posters

4:59 it's just kind of appropriate that's

5:00 right next to the Vista Theater which is

5:02 like really really cool I ended up

5:03 getting a couple little souvenirs and I

5:06 got a piping hot caffeinated beverage in

5:08 fact a cup of Quinton I got well also

5:13 they had a little VHS screening room

5:14 they were playing they were playing

5:15 Christmas Christmas movies in the

5:17 screening room either way I got a cup by

5:21 Quinton tarantina you've seen the shirts

5:22 you see this a directed by Quinton

5:24 Tarantino this is a cup that is by

5:26 Quinton Tarantino Pam's coffee right

5:29 here and it looks like they have the

5:31 ladder out they might be taking down the

5:32 fact that blazing cells may have already

5:34 may have already passed oh he's uh

5:36 actually he's putting a word up there or

5:37 he's putting another letter up on the

5:40 protocol yeah so there you go right

5:42 there oh maybe it was a misspelling

5:44 either way I just I just got some Pam's

5:46 coffee right there is the C

5:50 FY based on the

5:52 film spelled a little bit differently

5:55 than your traditional

5:58 coffee yeah I I'm so glad they open this

6:00 here some throwback films playing in

6:02 here oh I see the deer hunter poster

6:04 there through the through the wall

6:06 course Blazing Saddles then you got all

6:08 the different handprints down here look

6:10 at this William freakin exist right

6:12 there is that Toby Hooper sure is look

6:15 at

6:15 this it's got to be Toby Herbert I can't

6:18 tell if that says Toby but I'm going to

6:19 guess that's Toby cuz TCM I'm guessing

6:22 it was Texas Chainsaw Massacre

6:25 1974 classic Dabney Coleman oh my gosh 9

6:30 to5 freaking

6:33 awesome Princess Bride As You

6:36 Wish okay this is kind of neat Spike

6:46 Jones

6:52 black there's one right midn midn

6:57 is Blazing Saddles yeah minute till

7:00 midnight yeah very cool they got quite a

7:03 few little items in here so they have

7:05 like mates also they said they Place

7:07 certain movies on VHS they project it

7:09 off the VHS into like a a little small

7:11 room for the Maes and they have the big

7:13 showing at midnight there's shirt there

7:17 you also have a video archive Cinema

7:19 Club and a little tote bag

7:26 there thank

7:26 you oh yeah this so this is the Cinema

7:29 Club this is where this is where you go

7:30 in and watch the the

7:32 VHS okay so it's not on the actual big

7:34 screen this is where you go in and watch

7:36 the the vhs's this is so awesome this is

7:38 so awesome that

7:54 way pretty dang cool man pretty dang

7:54 cool

8:02 this is for elsewhere they're here in

8:02 town they're having a guy Fier lookalike

8:06 contest look at that and this already

8:11 passed there a VHS

8:13 Market over at the Chacha

8:17 lounge and the coffee's pretty good put

8:19 a little cream and sugar in it but the

8:20 coffee's pretty tasty a cup by Quinton

8:24 also got souvenirs got the little logo

8:27 there

8:29 yes Quinton brewed me up a cup of coffee

8:31 he wasn't in there but I'm going to

8:33 pretend he was pretend he was behind the

8:35 counter being a barista I feel like

8:38 Quinton and I kind of share a love of at

8:40 least one thing well probably a few

8:42 things but definitely piping hot

8:45 caffeinated beverages I know he likes

8:46 his coffe is

8:47 hot at least I'm assuming got a magnet

8:51 that's what that is there I got a little

8:53 ballpoint pin right there and a couple

8:56 stickers a little souvenir bag little

8:59 magnet to add my metal cabinets nice I'm

9:03 going by my old apartment over here wish

9:05 the Vista theater was open when I lived

9:07 here in 2017 to

9:09 2019 on Hollywood

9:11 Boulevard I lived out in Orange County

9:13 at different times but I lived here I

9:15 lived right over here for those two

9:16 years at that time Tarantino had did not

9:19 own it it right over here in this

9:21 building this big tall 1 two 3 four five

9:25 story building I was on the fourth floor

9:26 if I remember

9:28 correctly right right

9:35 there right here on Carlton halfway

9:35 between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard

9:38 it over to the Hollywood and Highland

9:39 parking structure P4 the green level

9:44 also a Birth of a Nation was a different

9:46 Griffith movie and tolerance was the one

9:48 that they built that had this set both

9:51 his films but so the premiere of the

9:55 other movie was at the vista and then

9:57 the set was the other was intolerance

9:59 like this escalator is wait am I going

10:02 up yeah I'm going up this escalator is

10:04 not working so going to walk it also DCA

10:08 Disney California Adventure had the

10:10 elephants same elephants from that set

10:12 used to be on their Hollywood Boulevard

10:13 they removed those too they moved them

10:15 from Hollywood and Highland and they

10:16 moved them from Disney California

10:27 eventually that's what it looked like

10:27 before they changed it that Archway is

10:29 still there there but they got rid of

10:30 the elephants and all that they got

10:32 there used to be a plaque that was

10:33 located right down here tell them why

10:36 they built it and all that but since

10:37 been removed but that was right over

10:38 there by the Vista theater where I just

10:40 was with the Pam's coffee this is where

10:43 the real set used to be and then this is

10:45 the recreation on Hollywood Highland

10:47 anyway it's kind of a fascinating

10:48 subject that's now gone both both the

10:51 original set and this Recreation Dolby

10:54 Theater has their wreath up in their

10:55 Christmas decorations curious to see

10:57 what kind of Christmas decor

10:59 is going to be near Hollywood and

11:01 Highland I always Park in the the same

11:03 area Street Park is very difficult to

11:06 find around the bulevard so it's easier

11:08 just

11:09 to to park in the structure here and

11:12 then you can just park all day and then

11:13 pay when you leave ah yes the Academy

11:16 Awards

11:17 steps with all the different names of

11:19 Academy Award winners like departed in

11:23 2006 No Country for Old Men 2007 great

11:27 movie

11:31 all right let's hit the boulevard the

11:32 Boulevard of Broken Dreams that's his

11:35 nickname among other things defitely

11:37 doing something over here in front of

11:38 the Chinese Theater on Hollywood

11:40 Boulevard there's they got it all closed

11:42 off at least this one particular block

11:44 and there's Quinton Star right there

11:46 there he is yes the always

11:48 impressive TCL Chinese Theaters formerly

11:51 the gromen Chinese Theater Sid in fact

11:55 you can see a lot of the handprints here

11:57 still say to Mr Sid

11:59 best

12:00 always you got George Burns right here

12:04 Ted I'm Going In Style also good luck

12:07 Sid Douglas Fairbanks speaking of

12:10 Blazing Saddles There Will Smith you

12:12 know this this is a scene from Blazing

12:15 Saddles it was playing over at the vista

12:17 where Harvey kman walks up and goes how

12:18 did he do such incredible stunts with

12:21 such small feet I think that's it I

12:23 might be paraphrasing but yeah x marks

12:25 the spot I don't know what's going on

12:26 with that but yeah

12:34 because I go to Hollywood Studios a lot

12:34 know near Orlando Central Florida over

12:37 few miles from my home in celebration

12:39 and they have recreated this exactly I

12:41 mean same dimensions and everything they

12:44 in Central Florida as it is here the

12:45 only difference is this little stand

12:47 here is over on this side that's really

12:50 the only difference but the everything

12:52 else is the same and way less handprints

12:54 obviously a lot more history here than

12:56 it would be however here one thing you

12:59 do not see at Hollywood Studios is Jack

13:01 Sparrow playing a guitar and Darth Vader

13:04 Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse right there I

13:06 mean you can see Jack Spar at the parks

13:08 but you're not going to see him playing

13:09 a guitar like this gentleman is they're

13:11 enclosing it so you see they're kind of

13:12 like enclosing it there they got the

13:14 workers here you got all the heavy

13:16 machinery out you got the Roosevelt

13:19 right over there and they are enclosing

13:21 that's open air at the moment but at

13:23 some point it's going to be completely

13:24 enclosed in fact you can see the workers

13:26 here they have the little thing they're

13:28 going to be pulling but they're doing

13:29 the countdown and they're going to be uh

13:32 think they're like pulling those cords

13:33 to like to secure the top of the roof

13:36 portion right

13:37 there that's what they were doing anyway

13:39 since I showed a star since I'm kind of

13:41 was just talking about him over at the

13:42 vista and all that but right here are

13:44 his handprints and his feet prints right

13:46 here ah the old $5 souvenir shop tucked

13:50 away over used to be able to go up that

13:51 stairway but not anymore they don't want

13:53 to go up that stairway anymore they have

13:54 it staned off you could probably just

13:55 jump over the stanion and ropes and walk

13:57 up there but yeah used to not to just

13:59 you know walk right up there and then

14:01 just like go to the kind of the top

14:02 floor overlooking the Chinese Theater

14:04 you really couldn't see much but you

14:06 could at least like kind of get a little

14:07 higher definitely got the streets all

14:09 blocked off I mean a lot of things a lot

14:11 of things always happen down here so

14:12 they always have events like this type

14:14 of place but right now cannot drive

14:16 through this portion of Hollywood

14:18 Boulevard that guy's banging on a metal

14:19 pole someone's getting a star soon right

14:22 over here next to Bruno Walter there's a

14:24 star that's about to be unveiled usually

14:26 when you see one covered like this it

14:28 means they're going to be doing a star a

14:31 little star ceremony within a couple

14:34 days after you see those realize right

14:37 in front of the Kimmel stage the Kimmel

14:39 entrance is where Eisner Michael

14:42 Eisner from Disney the Disney

14:44 Corporation of course who was

14:46 responsible for building MGM Studios

14:48 Holly now Hollywood

14:50 Studios back in the early 90s my

14:52 favorite themed park ever right in front

14:54 of the El Cap L Capitan Theater which

14:56 Disney owns

15:05 so right over there if you go around

15:05 that courtyard to the right is where

15:07 that original set Recreation was now the

15:09 archway is still there but yeah that's

15:11 where it was like right through there

15:12 I'll walk over there in AIT you could

15:14 rent one of these for $89 right here see

15:16 $89 you can rent one I think it's a

15:19 little bigger than that take a look at

15:20 Buster usually you can't stand here when

15:22 there's traffic going by because there'd

15:25 be traffic in the way but well I guess

15:27 if you had the walking Arrow but way you

15:29 can stand here because the the cones are

15:30 all

15:32 here there's Buster all stifi he's got

15:36 his beard on got a Santa cap he's got a

15:40 piece of candy in his

15:42 mouth old Buster busting out of the top

15:44 of RI

15:53 please I

15:53 know it's

15:55 a for you yes it is I want went up one

15:59 of the mini escalators to the topest

16:02 portion of an escalator that you can

16:04 take well actually no there's another

16:05 there's another escalator right there

16:07 but up to where the elephants used to be

16:09 so they still see the archway is right

16:11 here so it kind of still looks very very

16:13 similar looking into it but right up

16:16 there was where the elephants used to be

16:17 over there there is the school that John

16:20 Ritter went to you can see a little

16:23 painting it's way over there you can see

16:24 it's kind of silhouetted out see Mr

16:27 Ritter John it's on the side of that

16:30 wall painted over there right over there

16:33 might not show up very well but I

16:35 probably can't really I can't really

16:36 walk any farther

16:39 because this this is where I'm

16:42 at I going to try to go up a little

16:44 higher though way up here on this top

16:46 platform you see the top of the Chinese

16:47 Theater there I'm going to kind of zoom

16:49 out you can still hear all the

16:50 construction you got Kobe here some

16:52 Academy Awards you can also see this

16:55 little bow here which is place for Decor

16:58 looking down

16:59 also take a look over there you see the

17:00 skyline of Los Angeles the El Capitan

17:05 little antenna right there or whatever

17:07 you want to call that and all the

17:08 construction they're doing down there

17:10 soothing sounds of

17:21 sirens that's a big

17:21 bow it's a big what is this made out of

17:24 felt I don't know it's glittery never

17:26 been able to walk up this but this is

17:28 accessible too

17:29 go up one more

17:31 level okay all right all

17:35 right wow and everybody able to get this

17:37 high up so you got the Roosevelt over

17:40 there so I can remember seeing there was

17:42 a thing they did on Kimel years ago they

17:44 had Harrison Ford and he was talking I

17:47 think Chewbacca was down there or maybe

17:48 Harrison was down there Chewbacca was up

17:50 there and they filmed it on the roof

17:52 right there of the chemel show you can

17:54 even this is so high up you can even see

17:55 the football field over there from the

17:57 school that John rter went to I'm way up

18:00 here usually this is closed off but it's

18:02 wide open right now Buster is way down

18:06 there I'm way above Buster Buster is

18:09 usually looking down on me I'm looking

18:11 down on Buster right now with that very

18:13 dirty Santa

18:15 beard happy holidays from Hollywood we

18:19 have a Mufasa setup over here for the

18:22 live action Lion King and you also see

18:24 the little Hollywood Sign miniature

18:26 right down here in the in the courtyard

18:30 currently pets are animals allowed on

18:32 this lawn area except for lions that

18:35 could probably perch right up there

18:37 those would probably be allowed they

18:39 probably make an exception point you can

18:41 kind of see the Hollywood sign it's like

18:43 right there so pretty good view from

18:45 this little archw this bad

18:48 boy still

18:50 here public

18:53 phone I'm not going to use that the

18:54 reverse side of that Archway right there

18:59 so where I was looking at the Hollywood

19:00 sign I was like right there looking that

19:02 way walked down showed that pay phone

19:04 and now walking back to the boulevard

19:05 that direction I nearly forgot that they

19:07 put all this over

19:10 here the Scientology building this is

19:13 something they do for the

19:15 holidays you got the back when I lived

19:18 here I remember they had like a pretty

19:19 cool display you'd walk by and they had

19:21 it all all the Christmas stuff out here

19:23 they call it the winter wonderland

19:24 pretty neat it's not going on today but

19:26 they're setting up for it

19:28 kind of interesting they still do this

19:30 again it's been a while since I think

19:32 I've walked down the Boulevard in

19:34 December I've walked down the boulevard

19:36 a lot every time I visit here but when I

19:37 lived here obviously for those couple

19:40 years from 2017 to 19 before I moved

19:42 back down to Orange County I'd always

19:43 walk by here they'd always have their

19:46 little Winter Wonderland set up and they

19:47 still do they have it all have it all

19:49 ready to go but right now it's not

19:51 happening at this particular moment

19:53 self-driving car self-driving car

19:55 there's no one behind the wheel of that

19:57 car or inside that car self driving car

19:59 alert we're here at muso and franks

20:01 right now using it once upon a time in

20:02 Hollywood tantino movie this sign says

20:05 that till the 11th it's kind of hard to

20:07 read it but right here says through the

20:09 11th okay that's not really translating

20:11 to the camera very well but through 6:

20:13 p.m. on December 11th they're going to

20:15 have the road up there by the Chinese

20:17 Theater closed off when they filmed Once

20:20 Upon a Time in Hollywood that's when I

20:21 was living here from 2017 to 19 it was

20:23 one of those years Jordan the lion and I

20:25 were kind of neighbors we lived a couple

20:27 blocks from each other right down the

20:28 boulevard he Liv on one side of the

20:30 boulevard I lived on the other side and

20:32 we walked down here and watch them film

20:34 a scene with

20:36 Leo and Brad Pit driving right down here

20:41 with the driving scene got to see

20:43 Tarantino it's right over there from the

20:45 distance was pretty neat hard to believe

20:48 how long ago that was time really does

20:50 fly quickly it's closed right now but

20:52 Leo and Brad Pit were standing

20:53 underneath there when Leo's his

20:56 character is having a little bit of a

20:57 meltdown and he's like I'm a hasb been

21:00 good buddy I'm a hasb been it's like

21:03 right underneath

21:04 there oldest in Hollywood since 1919

21:07 muso and Frank Grill it's interesting

21:09 I've eaten a lot of places in LA and

21:11 Hollywood I've never eaten inside muso

21:13 and Frank I don't know why it's never I

21:16 never have been bu oh look at this

21:17 another another pay phone remember last

21:19 time I was here I walked by this as well

21:21 this one doesn't even have like the

21:22 handle or anything on it it's just just

21:24 the shell this little mural right here

21:28 probably be easier if I just went over

21:30 the top of it filmed it there you

21:33 go my Veer off over onto Sunset and to

21:36 other areas maybe Veer off the boulevard

21:38 a little bit instead of walking all the

21:40 way down the the usual Traverse I do

21:42 just kind of winging it look like the

21:44 Baja Beach Bar might have closed right

21:46 here yeah looks like Baja Beach Bar has

21:49 uh seen better days remember when this

21:51 was open house of margaritas is now shut

21:56 down and sealed up

21:59 look over there there is Frosty's

22:01 Christmas Bar says Christmas Starts Here

22:04 Frosty's Christmas bar The Ultimate

22:07 Christmas

22:08 bar it's according to what it says

22:10 painted on the side of the building geed

22:12 off I'm on the corner of shider and

22:15 Selma right here at the YMCA I

22:18 love love this old neon this YMCA Neon

22:21 right

22:28 there looks like it's all boarded well

22:28 at least

22:29 going down Selma that section's boarded

22:40 up oo filming over here do a little

22:40 filming always filming in

22:58 Hollywood look at this they got it all

22:58 there must be they must be doing a scene

23:01 inside here and they don't want the sun

23:02 to get in so they have it all blackened

23:05 out right

23:07 there that motorcycle is going to be

23:09 using the

23:11 production so many Productions go on you

23:14 just never really know what what

23:15 anything really is yeah that's a pretty

23:18 good pretty good chunk of space oh look

23:20 at this classic car

23:23 alert I popped over here off

23:26 Sunset Crossroads of the

23:29 world Chinese Theater obviously

23:31 prominently displayed at Hollywood

23:33 Studios Disney Hollywood Studios in

23:34 Florida but also when you're first

23:36 walking in you see a recreation of this

23:38 a recreation of the crossroads of the

23:41 world now many years ago again when I

23:43 lived around this area these Gates would

23:45 be open you could walk in peruse around

23:48 but you can't really peruse around too

23:50 much it's all sealed up I don't know if

23:52 anything's even happening back in there

23:56 I think it was Big Audio Dynamite fil

23:58 filmed a music video right up

24:00 there Big Audio Dynamite Crossroads of

24:03 the world they were like up there on the

24:04 little railing performing the whole

24:06 music video was right there this always

24:09 reminds me of Hollywood Studios when you

24:11 walk in you go over you get your guide

24:13 Maps when you're first walking in you

24:15 got the guide maps you can get there a

24:16 little pin trading and things like that

24:19 this honestly might be a few feet taller

24:21 and this does not have the Mickey

24:25 there's a a Mickey lightning rod at the

24:27 one in Florida this one does not have

24:29 that lightning rod on it looks like

24:31 there's a gentleman on patrol in there

24:35 and the base of this is a little bit

24:37 wider so the base of this well you know

24:40 what maybe it's not it might be the same

24:43 might be the same base size it's tough

24:45 to tell but I think this might be a

24:47 few percentages

24:56 bigger pretty cool

24:56 right yeah I don't think any I don't

24:58 think this is used for anything

25:04 anymore oh we out of your way there you

25:04 got a you're got a little robotic a

25:06 robotic delivery service going by here

25:09 uh Juan is what the thing says on there

25:11 is zooming by is it going to stop for

25:13 this little scooter it's going around

25:15 the scooter look at this okay what's it

25:18 going to do I don't want to get this way

25:19 I don't want to deter this robot it's

25:21 called a serve robotics this thing's

25:23 going by right

25:25 there right right across from the cross

25:27 you don't see the at Disney not yet

25:29 anyway maybe at some point you'll order

25:31 some merchandise at the you know one of

25:34 the gift shops at Hollywood Studios and

25:37 they will uh they'll bring it to you

25:39 where you need to go pretty fascinating

25:55 right SE a car self-driving car and a

25:55 delivery item

26:09 what are you going to do like the shape

26:09 of this building right

26:10 here walking down

26:13 Sunset right next to the Hollywood

26:15 Center which is such a cool old building

26:18 this has to have been used in countless

26:20 Productions I mean it's just such a kind

26:22 of an eerie old timey retro like Motel

26:28 slash accommodations place I don't know

26:30 what exactly it would be but you can see

26:32 it's missing one of the O's Hollywood

26:36 center it's got this retro brick work

26:39 you know concrete almost something like

26:42 you'd see it like a a beach motel but

26:45 it's not on the beach it's in Hollywood

26:47 you got the old signage right up there

26:50 little spray paint on there you got the

26:52 old neon you even got some bulbs up

26:54 there which I don't think they even work

26:55 anymore surrounding the Hollywood Center

26:58 Motel signage but if I was a you know

27:01 production manager if I was location

27:04 scout or filming a movie this would be a

27:06 perfect spot to do it to have it just

27:08 look how awesome this is it's like

27:10 something out of like Devil's Rejects I

27:12 me Devil's Rejects wasn't filmed here

27:13 that was out the

27:14 desert it kind of has that that kind of

27:18 vibe but people look obviously there's

27:20 newer cars in here look at this this is

27:23 really cool right

27:26 don't there's an old seven 11 machine or

27:29 7 Up machine right over there this has

27:32 to have been used in a lot of different

27:34 movies I would imagine this is probably

27:37 just kept here that way it could be

27:39 rented out by

27:46 Productions maybe I don't know I'm just

27:46 assuming all right strolling back up to

27:50 Highland all I'm on Highland strolling

27:53 back up to the boulevard I should say

28:01 Max Factor building now Hollywood museum

28:01 Mills Drive-In so if you're ever at

28:04 Downtown Disney well now it's called

28:05 Disney Springs this building is a

28:07 restaur they recreated this at Disney

28:11 Springs and it's a restaurant they got

28:12 it they have it kind of reversed was

28:14 like a pizza place and then there's like

28:16 a restaurant you can go in you can go

28:17 down below to like a little hidden area

28:19 it's pretty close to where the balloon

28:21 is a Disney Springs but they they paid

28:24 homage to this building here the Max

28:27 Factor building

28:32 as I'm mentioning tarantina this place

28:32 here used to be called welltopia now

28:35 it's just sitting empty it's all spray

28:36 painted over and all that but if you've

28:39 ever seen True Romance I mentioned that

28:40 earlier where the Vista was filmed at

28:43 theater they watched the movie

28:45 together came back to the comic book

28:48 shop this was the comic book shop where

28:51 they kind of shared a moment there was

28:53 the upper

28:54 portion inside there there was like a

28:58 second balcony above the comic book shop

29:02 and this is where they film those scenes

29:05 from True

29:07 Romance right here around the corner

29:09 there's a really cool some really cool

29:12 murals that have been painted on the

29:14 side right

29:24 here these are really cool back here

29:24 look at chaplain over here on the corner

29:27 you got Maryland you got

29:34 Elvis got John

29:34 Wayne right

29:45 chaplain May the Monroe Elvis

29:45 Presley John

29:51 Wayne and a mountain

29:51 range or something oh look at this I

29:54 never noticed this I never been this far

29:56 back in here Stella Adler Academy of

29:59 acting and

30:06 theaters wow I've never been around the

30:06 back

30:07 here look at this what is

30:10 this what the heck is this back

30:14 here

30:20 okay I never knew you could walk down

30:20 this little alley this far I don't know

30:23 why I would have assumed you couldn't

30:24 but yeah

30:28 it's quiet back in

30:30 here really

30:40 quiet you're really quiet it's really

30:40 unusual how just off you know half block

30:44 off the boulevard is this little alley

30:45 and it's so quiet back here I've never

30:48 walked this far I've walked up there and

30:50 showed those murals before walked past

30:51 those murals we're never down into this

30:54 far deep into

30:56 this like no one back back in here and

30:58 it's super

31:00 quiet at least at this time of the

31:17 public all right that's Anthony bouraine

31:17 but I must admit not too familiar with

31:20 who these other two gentlemen are that

31:21 there is a Subway in Hollywood in La not

31:24 a lot of people use it in fact when I

31:26 lived here I didn't really I use it a

31:28 few times but very rarely I kind of wish

31:30 I would have used it more yeah you can

31:33 get all around just like a lot of other

31:35 cities have subways but no one really

31:37 ever uses it here at least not like

31:39 other places walking over here past some

31:42 of the different stars and whatnot again

31:45 I'm not a th% positive on what is going

31:50 on we being built here but they're

31:54 they're getting this thing together

31:55 pretty dang quickly pretty dang quickly

31:58 and there's another view of Buster right

32:00 there yeah back in the day these used to

32:03 used to walk on these and as you walked

32:05 up them it would do the not like said it

32:06 would do like a little uh whatever you

32:08 would call it over here it would be like

32:10 some sort of indicator here and as you

32:12 would step on each one it would make the

32:14 note of each particular piano key here

32:17 was called sweets for a while it was a

32:19 store called sweets again this is in

32:21 that little segment of time when I lived

32:24 here it's been a couple things since

32:25 then and I think it was a popup recently

32:28 for something else and there was an

32:31 Elvira store in here that was part of

32:33 sweets for a while it was this massive

32:35 candy store and you could like there was

32:38 even a like a or like a uh an organ

32:41 piano in there similar to what they had

32:43 in the movie Big with Tom Hanks that you

32:45 could walk on I hope I'm remembering

32:47 that

32:48 correctly look at this wow look you can

32:52 peek in here now oh my gosh just

32:54 bringing back memories from gosh 7 years

32:57 years

32:58 ago 7 8 years ago going walking around

33:01 in here inside sweets or the sweet store

33:05 something like that the sweetness The

33:08 Sweet Spot the spots of sweets

33:11 sweet I think it was called

33:14 sweets yeah

33:22 wow again they had a pop up in there

33:22 semi recently oh here's a pretty good

33:24 view let me go over here and get a good

33:27 view of that stair case that you can see

33:28 in the Academy Awards they kind of

33:30 drench all this and

33:32 covering but if you ever watch the the

33:35 Oscars you can see that staircase right

33:38 there just like that where they walk up

33:39 and down and they go inside the

33:42 Dolby and what was the academy

33:44 award-winning film in 1970 your answer

33:48 would be Paton the next year was French

33:52 Connection and the next year The

33:55 Godfather and then the sting and then

33:58 the year I was born was The Godfather

34:00 Part

34:03 Two fun facts I always think of

34:06 escalators and people getting stuck on

34:08 them I think of M rats and Jason Lee's

34:11 Spiel that almost happened I saw someone

34:15 in

34:16 their child almost got stuck on one back

34:19 there it's kind of scary but luckily it

34:22 worked out okay and they were all right

34:23 but almost had a m rat's moment out of

34:26 order

34:28 out of

34:38 order I will thank

34:40 you oh this thing this thing's run

34:42 parallel to me look at this little uh

34:44 food cart thing is like running parallel

34:46 right there all right I'm over near the

34:48 airport take a look at

34:59 got a little while before I pick up my

34:59 parents about another hour hour and a

35:02 half so I'm going to walk over here and

35:04 check something out that's pretty

35:10 interesting traffic was pretty bad took

35:10 me probably an hour and 15 minutes to

35:13 get from where I

35:15 was to where I am now but I made it

35:18 corner of saula in

35:21 Westchester also got a

35:23 lollipop doing a lot of lollipops lately

35:26 like channeling tell syalis or something

35:27 I don't know I think it tell every time

35:29 I think of a lollipop over here at the

35:31 Paradise Theater they got some

35:33 interesting little information placards

35:36 in the ground oh I got to walk now in

35:38 the

35:40 ground I think there might even be maybe

35:43 they're not I think they might be items

35:45 that are buried in the ground time

35:47 capsules that's the word I'm looking for

35:48 time

35:50 capsules yeah here you go sealed herein

35:54 are

35:55 momentos of the Academy of motion

35:57 picture Art and

35:59 Science awards from 1957 bridge over the

36:03 river koi now I've showed this before

36:06 year or two ago but it's just

36:08 fascinating that this is still

36:11 here best performance by actor Alec

36:18 Guinness from Star

36:19 Wars it's also in the bridge in the

36:21 river koi

36:32 1956 Around the World in 80

36:32 Days you know that reminds me I want to

36:35 watch that cuz I'm going to start doing

36:36 international travel next year I should

36:39 probably watch Around the World in 80

36:41 Days I don't know if I've ever seen the

36:43 complete movie before I always reference

36:45 it and I've I know of it and I've seen

36:48 clips of it but I've never seen it in

36:49 its

36:50 entirety I might actually do that Yule

36:53 Briner best performance by an actor for

36:56 that film

37:09 Mill hary Cooper reflection with my

37:09 lollipop right

37:10 there Lawrence of

37:19 Arabia From Here to Eternity William

37:19 Holden great

37:22 actor on the waterfront Columbia

37:25 Pictures Marlin

37:26 brand sealed here in are momentos there

37:29 are time capsules possibly props

37:32 promotional material from all these

37:34 Academy Award winning films when they

37:38 when are they going to open

37:40 these why am I

37:42 yelling All the King's

38:02 All About

38:02 Eve I know what that's all about It's

38:04 All About Eve In the Heat of the

38:31 apartment goodness gracious there's a

38:33 lot of these My Fair Lady sealed here in

38:36 are motos from the 1964 best picture and

38:41 classic My Fair Lady Jack Warner Warner

38:44 Brothers what the heck that's

38:51 awesome yeah just right here near the

38:51 airport it's a good little waiting

38:55 point I'm going to go over over there

38:59 pick them up family vacation begins very

39:02 very soon very very very very soon some

39:07 other stuff on the ground over there too

39:08 I'll check out what that is I'm going to

39:10 keep look at Westside

39:11 Story right

39:13 there got Westside Story and the last

39:17 one a man for all

39:21 seasons 1966

39:28 oh this is a bunch of Airline stuff

39:30 first women flight attendant the flight

39:32 path president chairman wa Pat Patterson

39:35 Los Angeles World airport so it's a

39:38 little airport history as you stroll

39:40 through here which is really

39:42 neat here you go Sir Richard

39:45 Branson Virgin

39:52 Air he's on the little Walk of Fame when

39:52 it comes to airline travel

40:05 here I think that's it oh wait what are

40:05 these oh these don't these don't have

40:07 anything on them yet they're just empty

40:09 look that's just empty that one's empty

40:13 and all the rest of the empty they're

40:14 just waiting for someone else to be

40:17 immortalized here in the

40:23 concrete fascinating really would like

40:23 to know when these are going to be

40:24 opened up and what is buried underneath

40:27 here like what is just a couple feet

40:29 underneath this concrete concrete

40:33 pavement right

40:39 here there might be some really

40:39 interesting and

40:41 valuable movie props in history

40:44 underneath there scripts sign things

40:54 Etc never know oh there we

40:54 go and that's going to do it for today

40:58 I'll see you in the next video the

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A Saturday On Closed Down Hollywood Blvd - Pam’s Coffy & Vista Theatre / Crossroads Of The World

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