This strip mall features a filming location for the 2007 film Superbad. This liquor store is where "McLovin" tries to buy booze, gets punched out by a robber, and meets the two cops (Bill Hader and Seth Rogen).

In the parking lot, Seth (Jonah Hill) gets run over by a sketchy Francis (Joe Lo Truglio).

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The tear-jerker/Bette Midler movie soundtrack vehicle Beaches (1988) filmed several scenes at the rental cottages of Crystal Cove State Park (specifically, it was Cottage #13).

The 45 different cottages were built in the 1930s and recently renovated for rentals. A restaurant, the Beachcomber Café, is located in one of the converted cottages and looks out on the ocean.

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When Francis Ford Coppola shot Apocalypse Now in 1979, he probably didn't realize he was going to give birth to the surfing industry in the Philippines.

One of the iconic moments of the film features Colonel Kilgore trying to convince his men to surf the beach as bombs and bullets fly.

After the filming wrapped up at this location, the crew left some of the surfboards behind. Some locals picked up the boards, and started surfing the break, now nicknamed "Charlie's Point." The beach has since become a tourist draw for surfing.

Source: BBC News

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The twist ending of Planet of the Apes was shot on Westward Beach in Malibu. The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was brought in as a writer for the film, and he was the one to come up with the ending.

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American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started the Las Vegas strip in 1946 by building the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. The hotel closed later that year, only to reopen in 1947.

On June 20, 1947, Bugsy was sitting in the living room of his girlfriend's house reading the Los Angeles Times. A car pulled into the driveway, and fired an M-1 carbine through the window. Bugsy was shot several times, including twice in the head.

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