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    That "1938" photo with the tall gas storage tanks looks north up Center Street, and shows where Charlie Chaplin chased a woman around the NE corner of Jackson in Modern Times (1936), as you can see on this post below....
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    Charlie Chaplin filmed opening scenes here for his early masterpiece The Kid (1921). The abandoned campus building (3rd photo in this post) that is now an apartment building at Figueroa Street and Avenue 50, was used as the charity maternity...
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    These lost depots often appear in classic silent films, with Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, and Stan Laurel, as explained in my recent post http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/silent-cameos-of-the-lost-southern-pacific-depot/...
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    Great post. For a time both Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd rode Court Flight during their lunch breaks. You can see a great 3-D map of Court Hill, and Court Flight, on my blog post about silent movies and the...
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    That "1938" photo with the tall gas storage tanks looks north up Center Street, and shows where Charlie Chaplin chased a woman around the NE corner of Jackson in Modern Times (1936), as you can see on this post below....
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    Charlie Chaplin filmed opening scenes here for his early masterpiece The Kid (1921). The abandoned campus building (3rd photo in this post) that is now an apartment building at Figueroa Street and Avenue 50, was used as the charity maternity...
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    These lost depots often appear in classic silent films, with Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd, and Stan Laurel, as explained in my recent post http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/silent-cameos-of-the-lost-southern-pacific-depot/...
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    Great post. For a time both Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd rode Court Flight during their lunch breaks. You can see a great 3-D map of Court Hill, and Court Flight, on my blog post about silent movies and the...
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