4 things about los angeles

Sean Bonner spilled meme all over me, so . . .

Four Jobs I've Had In My Life in LA:
Working Actor
Struggling Actor
Desperately Struggling Actor
Writer

Four Movies About LA I Could Watch Over And Over:
Swingers
LA Confidential
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner

Four Places I've Lived All Over L.A. (With Food Memories From Each):
Sunland: Walking to Bob's Big Boy for Big Boy Combos with my parents
La Crescenta: Big chicken and beef bowls from Yakis
Westwood: 45-cent frozen burritos from breadstix
Pasadena: Super Fire Hot Wings at Hooters in Old Town, where it all began

Four LA-Themed Shows I Love(d) To Watch:
CHiPs
Alias
Three's Company
Emergency!

Four Places I Would Vacation At In LA:
Shutters in Santa Monica
Any campground in the San Gabriel Mountains
The Biltmore downtown
The Ritz Carlton in South Pasadena

Four LA-Based Websites I Visit Daily:
blogging.la
BoingBoing
Nickerblog
Bill Rini

Four Of My Favorite Foods Found In LA:
Huevos rancheros from Cafe Verde
Big chicken bowl w/ potato salad and extra green sauce from Yakis
Petit fillet from The Arroyo Chophouse
Grilled Dodger Dogs from the Inner Reserve level at Dodger Stadium

Four Places In LA I Would Rather Be Right Now:
Somewhere with my wife
Amoeba Music
Echo Mountain
Zuma Beach

Tagged:
Annie
Shane [done. HAWESOME]
Xeni
Ryan [done, and happy birthday!]

(photo via atomicShed on flickr)

Comments

[justin kreutzmann]

this tagging business is catching on...I can think of 4 things I'd rather do than be tagged!

Kidding, it's all in good fun.

[Michael Dowling]

Dude, Wil!

Three's Company was based in San Diego, not LA.

(although, to a San Francisco native like me, it's all the same "SoCal" anyway :) )

[Scott T]

Sorry, Michael, but you're not quite right--and Wil was HALF right. "Three's Company" was set in SANTA MONICA. It is immediately West of L.A. on the beach. Don't you remember the opening credits? Jack is riding on the bike path and he trips himself over seeing some hot women? That was on the bike path in Ocean Park. That's the beach section of S.M.

I have fond memories of a lot of what you have on your list too, Wil. But where's Helm's Bakery? Maybe they were already gone since your're a BIT younger than me. I can still remember the smells of Helm's Bakery truck with their maple bars and custard pies. After all these years I can still taste it!

Scott

:)

[Wil]

Santa Monica, Hollywood, Torrance, Long Beach, Venice, The Valley, East Side, West Side . . . they're all part of what we who live here call "LA."

[Michael Dowling]

I beg to differ. :) Actually, while the *filming* of Three's Company took place in Santa Monica, the show and its characters were based in San Diego:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075596/trivia

and:

http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/4/16/13588/4193

"San Diego made popular by Three's Company, [...cut...]"

:)

-Michael

[favor_the_bold]

Oh my gosh! Emergency! !! I totally loved that show. I was the only girl in my first through thrid grade class to have the lunch box. I was so proud of that lunch box...still have it to this day, 25 or so years later.

[Wil]

Michael, your trivia link to imdb reveals:

The pilot took place in a triplexed apartment area in North Hollywood, called the "Hacienda Palms", but the main series was at an apartment house in Santa Monica.

and

The exterior shots of the Roper's apartment was an actual corner apartment-house in Santa Monica. Permission was obtained by the owners for filming rights.

But San Diego has, uh . . . Sea World! Yeah! Go San Diego!

[drave117]

I can't believe LA Story wasn't on that movie list! It's the sweetest movie I've ever seen about LA!

[RU Serious]

We tried this one with my home town in New mexico, but nobosy could think of 4 of anything except stop lights.

[nolagirl]

I could do it for New Orleans, but I can't think of four TV shows...or four good movies. As in "movie that doesn't show Nawliners with super deep Southern accents." We sound like we're from Brooklyn, actually.

[kblue]

After reading all these comments, I want to go to the beach (which is unlikely to happen for months). I must say, it made me happy to see that Alias made the list for tv shows. The first two seasons or so were great...even if things have gone downhill more recently.

[Lisana]

Hey, Wil, do you know "Hamburger Rock" in the San Gabriel mountains? :) I actually lived in SG for a couple years when I was 6 and 7, and we would go up to the catfish fishing place and feed the fish, and then on up to a little tavern type place in the mountains every now and then. I remember playing Asteroids on the arcade machine they had there, and we'd have a sandwich for lunch.

[mceachern]

Emergency! What a fantastic show. I looked for the DVD's of those for ages but couldn't find them until I decided to try again today; inspired by this post. To my good fortune netflix has season one and two, whoo hooo!!

[Aris]

Umm, what about the Apple Pan - which is (was?) on Pico in West LA - right near where Captain Video & the Picwood Bowl used to be (i'm going back to the early 80's when I lived in LA).

I have fond memories of going to the Apple Pan with my dad.

[annie]

you and your tracktor beam. grrrrrrrrr......