TO....OBLIVION, Part 3: Anaheim's Center Street - Alexander Elliott Miller
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To….Oblivion is a suite of pieces for solo electric guitar and electronics, inspired by historic and lost landmarks around Los Angeles. Each movement consists of a live electric guitar part, sound effects and a slideshow of historic and contemporary images. This is a demo of Part III: Anaheim's Center Street.
In the mid-20th Century, Anaheim's Center Street was a vibrant, typical American main street; a strip lined with hotels, department stores, cafes, theaters, any number of small businesses and the site of several annual parades. By the 1970's, however, business had dried up, and the area succumbed to significant urban blight.
With much of the town falling into disrepair, the city initiated what it called Project Alpha: the complete demolition of a 200 acre section in the heart of the city for redevelopment. Beginning in 1978, most of Anaheim's historic core was entirely destroyed, buildings torn down, streets erased and remapped. Making matters worse, the city had begun demolitions before contracts from redevelopers had been secured. Shortly after all the buildings were gone, the money dried up, and much of the heart of old Anaheim remained empty dirt lots for the better part of the 1980's.
Many of Anaheim's well known present day businesses and attractions, such as DisneyLand, Angels Stadium, the Convention Center and Honda Center, are actually miles south of the original site of the city. But the traditional downtown area is now slowly bouncing back. Precious few remaining historic buildings have found reuse (with the Anaheim Packing House being a recent and notable example), but overall, the downtown district appears to have fully transformed, with much of the actual site of the original Center Street now a strip mall and parking lot.
I have lived on a sliver of what remains of Anaheim's Center Street since 2012. While this neighborhood was at first something of a mystery to me, my work on this project has given me a richer understanding of the changes that my neighborhood has experienced over the years, and that so many neighborhoods around LA are continuing to experience today.
Jeffrey ft. Joe Park (also mentioned Alan Rickman's Tragic Death)
After Alice Through The Looking Glass Jeffrey Sunny Baek interviews with Northwood High School Alumni student Winner of the Homecoming King 2008-2009 as well-known star of Northwood, with Jeffrey Sunny Baek talks about their both reaction about new Disney's Alice Through The Looking Glass went and mentioned about Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter and tragic death Alan Rickman as voice of Absolute the blue caterpillar/blue butterfly since first 2010 Alice in Wonderland and now Alan's new final movie for this movie, getting to see this sequel movie at 25 Century Cinemark Stadium, Orange, California, United States of America OC Orange County area, movie theater first time together, and then randomly talked about other topic about Jeffrey's friends so weird topic about his school related funny, but fun, enjoy this video.
AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres is an American movie theater chain owned and operated by AMC Entertainment Inc., which is itself owned by AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group. Founded in 1920, AMC has the second-largest share of the American market, behind Regal Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres. The chain has 346 locations mostly in North America, along with 86 more locations in mainland China, home of its corporate parent. The company's headquarters is in Leawood, Kansas.
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Jacksonville, Florida | Wikipedia audio article
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Jacksonville, Florida
00:02:25 1 History
00:02:33 1.1 Early history
00:05:13 1.2 Founding and 19th century
00:07:36 1.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:07:46 1.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:10:12 1.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:13:48 1.3.3 1980 to present
00:15:23 2 Geography
00:15:32 2.1 Cityscape
00:15:41 2.2 Topography
00:17:29 2.3 Architecture
00:19:30 2.4 Neighborhoods
00:20:27 2.5 Climate
00:24:27 2.6 Parks
00:25:12 2.6.1 National parks
00:25:39 2.6.2 State parks
00:26:07 2.6.3 City parks
00:31:30 2.6.4 Other
00:32:01 3 Demographics
00:38:08 3.1 Religion
00:40:42 4 Economy
00:42:27 4.1 Banking and financial services
00:44:44 4.2 Logistics
00:46:55 4.3 Media and technology
00:50:34 4.4 Military and defense
00:53:41 5 Culture
00:53:49 5.1 Leisure and entertainment
00:59:24 5.2 Literature, film and television
01:02:05 5.3 Museums and art galleries
01:05:35 5.4 Music
01:07:45 5.5 Sports
01:09:47 6 Government and politics
01:09:57 6.1 Government
01:13:02 6.2 Politics
01:14:39 7 Education
01:14:48 7.1 Primary and secondary education
01:16:33 7.2 Colleges and universities
01:17:55 7.3 Public libraries
01:19:30 8 Infrastructure
01:19:39 8.1 Transportation
01:19:47 8.1.1 Roadways and bridges
01:23:00 8.1.2 Transit system
01:24:29 8.1.3 Modal characteristics
01:25:35 8.1.4 Rail
01:26:43 8.1.5 Airports
01:27:45 8.1.6 Seaports
01:29:50 8.2 Utilities
01:30:58 8.3 Health
01:32:02 9 Notable people
01:32:11 10 Sister cities
01:32:25 11 See also
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Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With an estimated population of 892,062 as of 2017, Jacksonville is also the most populous city in the southeastern United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,631,488 and is the fourth largest in Florida.Jacksonville is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeast Florida, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.
Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. People from Jacksonville may be called Jacksonvillians or Jaxsons (also spelled Jaxons).
Pres Matthew Holland at UVU Business Resource Center December 8, 2016
President Matthew Holland speaks of UVU's impact on economic development in the community and the future growth of UVU.
Suspense: The High Wall / Too Many Smiths / Your Devoted Wife
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
National Capital Planning Commission Meeting - October 6, 2011
Málaga | Wikipedia audio article
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Málaga
00:02:21 1 History
00:06:18 2 Geography
00:06:27 2.1 Location
00:07:02 2.2 Metropolitan area
00:08:49 2.3 Climate
00:12:14 3 Main sights
00:16:29 3.1 Museums
00:18:10 4 Demographics
00:18:40 5 Politics and administration
00:18:54 6 Economy
00:21:22 7 Culture
00:21:30 7.1 Annual cultural events
00:23:34 7.2 Religion
00:24:12 7.3 Sports
00:26:49 7.4 Tourism
00:28:04 7.5 Other events
00:28:47 8 Education
00:28:56 8.1 Bilingual education in schools
00:29:43 8.2 Artistic training
00:30:30 8.3 Spanish as a foreign language
00:30:55 8.4 Universities in Malaga
00:32:03 8.5 International schools in Málaga city
00:32:23 9 Transport
00:32:32 9.1 Airport
00:33:37 9.2 Seaport
00:34:06 9.3 High-speed train
00:34:25 9.4 Roads and highways
00:34:51 9.5 Urban bus
00:35:13 9.6 Metropolitan bus
00:35:36 9.7 Mass transit
00:35:50 9.8 Malaga Public Transportation Statistics
00:36:35 10 Notable people
00:40:06 11 Twin towns – sister cities
00:40:18 12 See also
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Málaga (, Spanish: [ˈmalaɣa]) is a municipality, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 569,130 in 2015, it is the second-most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth-largest in Spain. The southernmost large city in Europe, it lies on the Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) of the Mediterranean, about 100 kilometres (62.14 miles) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 km (80.78 mi) north of Africa.
Málaga's history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the world. It was founded by the Phoenicians as Malaka about 770 BC, and from the 6th century BC was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage. Then, from 218 BC, it was ruled by the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire as Malaca (Latin). After the fall of the empire and the end of Visigothic rule, it was under Islamic rule as Mālaqah (مالقة) for 800 years, but in 1487, the Crown of Castille gained control after the Reconquista. The archaeological remains and monuments from the Phoenician, Roman, Arabic and Christian eras make the historic center of the city an open museum, displaying its history of nearly 3,000 years.
This important cultural infrastructure and the artistic heritage have culminated in the nomination of Málaga as a candidate for the 2016 European Capital of Culture.
The painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol and the actor Antonio Banderas were born in Málaga. The magnum opus of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, Malagueña, is named after the music of this region of Spain.
The most important business sectors in Málaga are tourism, construction and technology services, but other sectors such as transportation and logistics are beginning to expand. The Andalusia Technology Park (PTA), located in Málaga, has enjoyed significant growth since its inauguration in 1992. Málaga is the main economic and financial centre of southern Spain, home of the region's largest bank, Unicaja, and the fourth-ranking city in economic activity in Spain behind Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
AIR Dibrugarh Online Radio Live Stream
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3.28AIR Signature Tune/Opening Announcement
3.30 Mishing Geet: Artist: Moneswar Chayengia
3.45 Programme in Mijumishimi
4.05 Programme in Khampti
4.25 Programme in Wanchoo
4.45 News in Hindi
4.55 News in English
5.00 Programme in Idu
5.20 Programme in Tangsa
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6.00 Anchalik Batori
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6.10 Vrindagaan:
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6.45 Sandhiyar Anchalik Batori
6.55 Aajir Prasanga
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7.45 Adhunik Geet: Artist: Ditimoni Baruah
8.00 Time & Meter Reading: Sponsored Programme: GYANMALINI, Dibrugarh University:
8.30 Gnan Bijnan Talk on “Popiya Torar Kotha” By Dr. Pranabjyoti Chaliha Part-1
8.40 Programme Highlight
8.42 Commercial Spot:
8.45 Samachar Sandhya:
9.00 News at Nine
9.15 Commercial Spot:
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9.25 Nichar Anchalik Batori:
9.30 National Prog. Of Regional Folk & Light Music
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10.30 Close Down.
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5:30 Vandemataram/Opening Announcement Mangal Badya
5:35 Bhaktigeeti: 1. Artist: Romen Dutta (Borgeet-Madhabdev) Porobhate Shyam Kanu… 2. Artist: Arun Ch. Bora (Naam Prasanga) Potit Pawon… 3. Artist: Ashish Khound (Lokageet) He Probhu… 4. Artist: Umakanta Boiragi & Pty (Tokarigeet) Dehot Jilikala… 5. Artist: Sangita Chamua (Bhajan-Meera Bhajan) Koruna Chun-Cham…
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6:05 Gandhi Chinta & Programme Summary
6:10 Swasthya Charcha: Interview on “Jaundice” With Dr. Bipul Ch. Kalita Part: III
6:15 Bidyarthir Anusthan:
6:30 Gandhi Prarthana
6: 45 Folk Music: (Zikir) Artist: Altaf Ahmed & Pty
7: 05 News in Assamese
7: 15Ajir Dinto: /(Morning Information Service)
7.30 Quotation: GEETANJALI: 1.Artist: Ranjita Baruah Lyc: Samsuddin Ahmed Nisthur Aghatot…2. Artist: Runjun Baruah Phukan Lyc: Geeta Hatikakoti Samay Balit…. 3. Artist: Ruby Sinha Lyc: Dwijendra Mohan Sarmah Bon Polakhore…4. Artist: Rumi Anjana Dutta Lyc: Dinesh Baishya Sharator Prothom… 5.Artist: Reeta BaruahLyc: Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi Aag Phagunor…
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8:15 Morning News:
8:30 North East News Bulletin in English:
8:35 “SURAR PANCHOI” (Composite) Assamese Film Songs
8:50 Puwar Anchalik Batori:
9:00 Jilar Rehrup:
9:05 “ANTARA” (Composite) Hindi Film Songs/
9.35 Close Down.
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11.58 AIR Signature Tune/Opening Announcement
12.00 News in English
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1:00 News in English:
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1:10 Troops Programme/
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2.15 Dopahar Samachar
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3:30 Deori Song: Artist: Indian Deori & Pty
3:45 Programme in Mijumishimi
4:05 Porogramme in Khampti
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4:45 News in Hindi
4.55 News in English
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5.40 Programme in Nocte
6:00 Anchalik Batori
6.05 Programme Summary & Highlight
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8.42 Commercial Spot:
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Chicago Food Truck Festival | Wikipedia audio article
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Chicago Food Truck Festival
00:03:54 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:01 2 History
00:05:10 2.1 Beginnings
00:06:19 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:13:47 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:57 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:17:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:21:18 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:23:05 3 Geography
00:23:14 3.1 Topography
00:26:22 3.2 Communities
00:27:16 3.3 Streetscape
00:28:55 3.4 Architecture
00:31:25 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:33:53 3.6 Climate
00:36:27 4 Demographics
00:42:24 4.1 Religion
00:43:20 5 Economy
00:49:24 6 Culture and contemporary life
00:53:46 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
00:58:02 6.2 Festivals
00:59:02 6.3 Tourism
01:03:40 6.4 Cuisine
01:05:53 6.5 Literature
01:08:12 7 Sports
01:13:39 8 Parks and greenspace
01:16:11 9 Law and government
01:16:20 9.1 Government
01:17:33 9.2 Politics
01:20:30 9.3 Crime
01:25:21 9.4 Employee pensions
01:26:07 10 Education
01:26:16 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:29:35 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:31:29 11 Media
01:31:38 11.1 Television
01:33:14 11.2 Newspapers
01:34:09 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:35:32 11.4 Radio
01:36:15 11.5 Video Games
01:36:43 12 Infrastructure
01:36:52 12.1 Transportation
01:37:40 12.1.1 Expressways
01:38:28 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:40:15 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:41:01 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:41:44 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:42:41 12.1.6 Airports
01:43:43 12.1.7 Port authority
01:45:07 12.2 Utilities
01:46:26 12.3 Health systems
01:48:29 13 Sister cities
01:49:29 14 See also
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates—ranking it after the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of number five London and number six ...
Dragnet: Big Escape / Big Man Part 1 / Big Man Part 2
Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring. (Dunning, 210) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. After Yarborough's death in 1951 (and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode The Big Sorrow), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs (December 27, 1951 - April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor), played by Barney Phillips; Officer Bill Lockwood (Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952 - May 8, 1952), played by Martin Milner (with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode The Big Donation); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis (1952), then Ben Alexander (September 21, 1952-1959). Raymond Burr was on board to play the Chief of Detectives. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top-rated shows.
Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. (Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.) Underplaying is still acting, Webb told Time. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee. (Dunning, 209) Los Angeles police chiefs C.B. Horrall, William A. Worton, and (later) William H. Parker were credited as consultants, and many police officers were fans.
Most of the later episodes were entitled The Big _____, where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot. In numerous episodes, this would the principal suspect, victim, or physical target of the crime, but in others was often a seemingly inconsequential detail eventually revealed to be key evidence in solving the crime. For example, in The Big Streetcar the background noise of a passing streetcar helps to establish the location of a phone booth used by the suspect.
Throughout the series' radio years, one can find interesting glimpses of pre-renewal Downtown L.A., still full of working class residents and the cheap bars, cafes, hotels and boarding houses which served them. At the climax of the early episode James Vickers, the chase leads to the Subway Terminal Building, where the robber flees into one of the tunnels only to be killed by an oncoming train. Meanwhile, by contrast, in other episodes set in outlying areas, it is clear that the locations in question are far less built up than they are today. Today, the Imperial Highway, extending 40 miles east from El Segundo to Anaheim, is a heavily used boulevard lined almost entirely with low-rise commercial development. In an early Dragnet episode scenes along the Highway, at the road to San Pedro, clearly indicate that it still retained much the character of a country highway at that time.
Platinum Triangle in Anaheim CA
Rates: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . . . . Platinum Triangle 1818 South State College Boulevard Anaheim CA 92806 Adjacent to Anaheim Stadium, home of baseball’s Anaheim Angels, this 2-bedroom apartment features a full kitchen with an oven and dishwasher. Access to a swimming pool is also offered. Free WiFi is offered at Platinum Triangle, along with a private bathroom with a soaking tub for each bedroom. The living area features a flat-screen TV with sofa bed, and laundry facilities are in the unit. Outdoor BBQ facilities are available at Anaheim Platinum Triangle. Guests can relax in the hot tub or make use of the business centre during their stay. Disneyland can be reached in just 5 minutes’ drive. John Wayne Airport is 11.8 miles away. Free guest parking for 1 vehicle is provided.