Wagons in vintage Street scenes

It would be interesting to know the shooting locations for that movie. Certainly looks like it could be somewhere in the L.A. area..... Not familiar with the movie myself...

 

I'll guess that it wouldn't be too difficult for someone familiar with the L.A. area to figure out. It appears to be a Cadillac dealer's used car lot across the street. That would narrow it down to areas around Caddy dealerships that existed in the 50's. And if the building identified as a bus terminal really was a bus terminal, then that might narrow it down further.

 

I did some more research on the location of The Killing, the Cadillac dealership is Clarence Dixon Cadillac at 1440 North Vine Street, Hollywood CA.
The building now houses a Fed Express-Kinko's and looks virtually unchanged otherwise. As far as the Greyhound Bus station being real I couldn't find anything
on it.

 

The street number on the "bus station" is 1409. A Google search of 1409 North Vine Street in Hollywood shows that the building that was the bus terminal is gone and a McDonalds parking lot now occupies the space. The McDonalds is directly across the street from the building that is now the Fed Express/Kinkos (McDonalds is just out of view to the right in this picture.



https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&...,ca&ei=CBQNUryPGZCFyQGQzoDYDg&ved=0CC0QxB0wAA

 

Photograph caption dated November 29, 1988 reads,
"Five cars were gutted and windows shattered yesterday
in an abandoned building at 620 Colorado Ave.
in Santa Monica after an electrical transformer box
exploded. The explosion, heard seven blocks away,
severed overhead electrical lines that fell on the cars,
igniting them. No one was injured, police said.
The cause of the blast is undetermined.

 

A long line of cars wait their turns to fill up gas at this
Union 76 service station during the gas crunch of 1974
I worked at a Chevron station during the first gas crisis
in 1974 so I never had any problems getting gas and
neither did my friends. I had people driving in just after
the station closed and offered me double the amount of
what showed on the pump but I wouldn't do it.
I would look at every car or truck's gas gauge and if they
had a gas hog I would only give them a half tank and if they
had an economical vehicle I limited them to a quarter tank.
I figured we were all in this gas crunch together and I just
didn't want people running out of gas on the freeway or city
streets creating more lines of pissed off people, so in some
small way I thought I was contributing to the solution of the
problems.

 

Los Angeles County road workman inspects cars on January 4, 1974, that were washed fifty yards down Topanga Canyon south of Fernwood
in a mudslide. 1974

 

Looking west on 5th Street near Grand Avenue.
A small portion of the Biltmore Hotel is visible on the
left, with a convenient hotel parking lot as well as a
Dollar a day rent a car lot on the corner.
Across the street, also on the left side is the
Los Angeles Public Library, its tower being dwarfed
"between" the twin ARCO towers in the background.
Several cars are traveling west bound on 5th Street.
March 25, 1971.

 

More than 23,000 cars and at least twice as many people
were recorded at Los Angeles International Airport as
summer travel reached its peak. Cars with overheated
radiators caused traffic to be backed up as far east of the
airport as Aviation Boulevard. 1972

 

San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. Damage was locally severe in the northern San Fernando Valley, and other effects were strongest to the south of the epicenter where the earthquake produced extensive surface faulting in the mountains as well as urban settings along city streets and neighborhoods, where uplift and other effects affected private homes and businesses. The San Fernando earthquake was one in a series of thrust earthquakes that affected the Los Angeles area and a study of the Sierra Madre Fault indicated more substantial thrust earthquakes had previously occurred in the San Gabriel Mountains region. total damaged estimated at $553 Million with 64 confirmed deaths.