metro area: san diego / carlsbad / san marcos, CA
hank dolworth’s house
from terriers posted in television by chewing_the_scenery
This was PI Hank Dolworth's house in Ocean Beach, San Diego, after he bought it from his ex-wife, in FX's underrated crime drama Terriers. Too bad it didn't last more than one season, although the name and the poster that made it look like a reality show about dogs probably didn't do their ratings any favors.
napoleone pizza house
from tom waits posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Tom Waits worked the graveyard shift here in the mid-sixties when he was fourteen. In the song "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" he sings "And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe Devilles," a reference to the Mile of Cars, the historic stretch of National City Boulevard currently home to twenty-one car franchises.