Hello, new readers!

I haven't mentioned it here, but I'm now doing a monthly column based on this site for San Pedro Magazine (I don't think they have a website). This may or may not mean that I'll be updating more often. In the meantime, feel free to browse the archives of Pedro movies linked on the right, there, and leave comments or questions about the movies or the site.

Pearl Harbor

Here are the last few Pedro moments in Pearl Harbor. In this scene, Japan is played by one of the dissappearing-gun emplacements at Battery Osgood/Farley.
It isn't as ironic as it could be I guess, because although they were (or would have been) used as defense against Japan, they were built back in 1919, considerably before WWII. Osgood/Farley will definitely show up on this blog in the future. Watch for it!























Here's a non-Pedro image for you:
The kid with the hat that says "Joe" on it is my brother-in-law Jake. He did live in Pedro when he was in this movie, so I guess there's a connection there.



I'll end this post with another non-Pedro image:

I don't know about you, but I find this hilarious. This isn't from an outtake, this was in the movie itself! They neglected to insert the sky. Way to go, Michael Bay.

Pearl Harbor

Okay, here's a post, at long last. Pearl Harbor was directed by Michael Bay, which isn't a reccomendation, but a warning. Avoid this movie at all costs. These shots are the first appearance of Pedro in the movie, where it doubles as Hawaii. That's the Warner Grand on 6th St., built in 1931. Enjoy, but stay away from this movie! I'll show you more shots of Pedro from this piece of dreck in my next post which will be soon. I swear.

Lazy

Now that I've successfuly driven away my "audience", let me say that I do plan on adding more entries to this... "blog". I don't guarantee more than one post a month, but I'll try to do at least that.

We'll see.

Promise: one more actual movie post this year.

I swear.

Chinatown

Chinatown was written by San Pedro native Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski in 1974. It's been on many "best of all time lists" and is probably one of the best movies shot in Pedro (according to movie critcs, so take it with a grain of salt.)












These scenes were shot in the Point Fermin/Sunken City area, and you can see Walker's Cafe in this first shot.
Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) tails Hollis Mulwray (Darrel Zwerling) to where water is secretly being let into the sea. You can see the pipe in the second picture.

The Point Fermin lighthouse is visible in the third pic, where Detective Loach and Lieutenant Escobar accompany Jake down to the cliffs to see the water drain out, but that never happens. This doesn't make those officers too happy.

Welcome again!

Hello to any visitors I have via the More San Pedro article about this site! I'll be putting up some more stuff later today, so look around, and feel free to check back periodically.

Films I have sreencaps from already (that aren't on the site yet):

Alex & Emma (Ports o' Call)
Being John Malkovich (47 Freeway, Schuyler Heim bridge)
Beverly Hills Ninja (steaming pile of... ahem, Sunken City)
Chinatown (Pt. Fermin Park, Walker's)
Gone In Sixty Seconds (2000) (Terminal Island, Vincent Thomas Bridge, old Passenger Terminal)
Gone In 60 Seconds (1974) (Terminal Island, V. T. Bridge)
Knight Rider (First TV show, definitely not the last!) (9th and Pacific)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (47 Freeway, Schuyler Heim bridge)
Out Cold (Little known murder farce, mostly shot in Pedro!) (7th St., Terminal Island)
Swing Shift (Grand Cottages, 9th St., Sunken City)
The Rock (Sunken City, Battery Farley, 37th & Carolina, 7th & Center)
Truck Turner (7th & Beacon, "City Hall")

If you have any suggestions, especially TV shows and older stuff (Tarzan! King Kong! Modern Times!) let me know in the comments section, or via email: devodobbs (at ) yahoo (dot) com.

If you have specific scene info, that also would be helpful.

Welcome!

Hello to any new visitors I may have since yesterday's book signing and walking tour! Please look around my little website, and feel free to leave comments!

If you are confused, I am refering to an in-store event at William's Book Store for Harry Medved's book Hollywood Escapes.

The official website is right here.

Fight Club

Fight Club is actually set in Wilmington, Delaware, home to many credit card companies. Funny, then, that much of it (at least, all four of these locations) was filmed in Wilmington, California (which was named by Phineas Banning, a native of Wilmington, Delaware).


The workplace of Raymond K. Hessel was a liquor store on Harry Bridges Blvd. (formerly B St.), somewhere between Figueroa and Neptune (where two other Fight Club locations were)(Possibly on Wilmington Blvd., I'm still not sure). It was also seen in The Rose.

The "Lou's Tavern" building (shown previously) was on the corner of Harry Bridges and Figueroa. It was Shipwreck Joey's, a former topless bar.

Tyler Durden's house, which served as the base of operations for Project Mayhem, was built for the production on the corner of Harry Bridges and Neptune Ave. It was known as the "Paper Street house", but not refered to as such in the movie.










The tire shop is on the corner of Avalon and E St., and it's the only one of these locations still standing.
Interestingly for such an "anti-consumerist" movie, there are several product placements, including the Goodyear banner seen here, and the coke machine in the back of Raymond K. Hessel's store. (Think about it, when have you ever seen a coke machine outside a liquor store? Much less behind one??)