| P: Okay, I give up. Why did you
take a picture of a tunnel. J: This is a tunnel in Griffith Park. But that's not the important part. This was the tunnel to Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and the one through which Biff and Marty drove in Back to the Future 2. I think this is the end they came out. P: Why not take a picture of the side where they went in? Wouldn't that be more recognizable. J: Now you tell me. Where were you when I took the photo? P: You didn't take me with you. J: Well, maybe if you were an imaginary woman. |
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| J: Hooray for this sign. This is the best shot I could get. Again note the June gloom haze. |
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| J: Believe it or not, this is the torpedo tube of a Russian sub. The folks who bought the Queen Mary later bought the Red Scorpion from the old Soviet fleet. |
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| J: Here is the sub docked along side the Queen Mary in Long Beach. |
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| J: Travelers on the Queen Mary used to look up at this large piece of art and not only find out the time on the clock, but follow where they are on their journey. You can just make out the tracks in the picture between England and New York. There are small ships that move back and forth on the map that indicate location. |  |
| J: The Watts Towers. They were
built between the 1920's and the 1950's. It's some sort of work of art, but really it's
just steel and concrete with inlaid chunks of colorful ceramic tiles. P: You got out of your car in Watts? J: Yeah. After I took the picture, a local guy walked by and told me he used to climb this thing when he was a kid. It has a locked fence around it now. That was kind of interesting. Despite where I was I didn't really feel like I was in a terribly dangerous place. The guy who stopped to talk to me didn't seem threatening. Maybe I was just wearing the right gang color that day. |
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| J: Olivera Street in downtown Los Angeles. Lots of little stands selling the same Mexican crap they sell in Tijuana. About a block away is where Los Angeles, as the settlement of El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, was founded. There's a little Catholic church there now. You have to love the Mexican Catholics. Lots of bleeding Jesuses, flaming hearts and sad Marys. Real creepy stuff. |
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| J: Dum da dum dum. Dum da dum dum
dummmm. P: What? J: That's supposed to be the Dragnet theme. P: What... J: No wait! I know. What's Dragnet, right? Dragnet was an old television show in which Jack Webb and Harry Morgan played detective in the LAPD. You may know Harry Morgan as Col. Potter on M*A*S*H. Hold on, what's M*A*S*H you ask? M*A*S*H was a show in the 70's about a mobile surgical hospital in the Korean War. No wait! What's the Korean War, right? Well as the cold war began to heat up after World War II, the communists... P: No, I was just going to ask what the building is. J: Oh, it's city hall. |
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| J: As I mentioned before, there are
scores of beggars and bums in the streets of Los Angeles. This one also happens to be
stark raving mad. He was standing on the corner wearing un sombrero grande yelling
incoherently at passers-by. P: Why is this one blurry? Is he prehistoric too? J: Shut up. |
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| J: My hotel was located in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. I took a picture of this sign as proof. |
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| J: This is the "I have to burn
the last picture on the roll" shot. I'm pretty sure it's the tower at LAX. Bob, this
one's for you. But since the only really famous person I saw was in the terminal at the
airport, I even have a story related to it. I was returning to the gate from the restroom
when I noticed a woman walking the other direction. She was wearing a tight yellow t-shirt
and no bra. So I'm watching a nice pair of breasts bouncing at me when I decided to look
up. The woman was wearing sunglasses and when she smiled at someone she knew as I passed
her, I figured out who she was. It was the lovely and reasonably talented Ashley Judd. I
don't know what Mama Judd would think about the unrestrained boobies, but I'm okay with
it. As it turns out, she was on my flight. P: Should have gotten a picture of that. |
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