metro area: los angeles / long beach / santa ana, CA
pointes high school
from grosse pointe blank posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
Very little of Grosse Pointe Blank was actually filmed in Detroit's upscale suburb Grosse Pointe. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles was used for Pointes High School where Martin Blank and Debi attend their ten-year high school reunion.
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from buffy the vampire slayer posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
The Sunnydale home (1630 Revello Drive) of Buffy, Joyce and Dawn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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from star trek (2009) posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
This Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, California was used for scenes of the Enterprise's engine room in the first J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie. For the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, they upgraded and filmed the Enterprise interiors at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
sunnydale high school
from buffy the vampire slayer posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
In Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Torrance High School was the stand-in for Sunnydale High School, located right over the hellmouth in fictional Sunnydale, California.
view full location details...rinky dink ice cream parlor
from dick dale, surf rock posted in music by pete_nice
Dick Dale started performing with his guitar at the Rinky Dink Ice Cream Parlor at this corner beginning in 1959.
By 1961, the film Gidget had been released and sparked an interest in surfing culture. Dale had a large enough crowd to start playing the Rendezvous Ballroom, and his first big hit with the Del-Tones was "Let's Go Trippin'."
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