Tag: Los Angeles
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Episode 5: “Lunch With Father”
Episode # 5. SEASON FINALE. Ollie introduces himself to a Dartmouth alumnus, receives a summons from his father, and visits the Hollywood Canteen to see Elle… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING… with… MUSIC: SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly, Epidemic Sound and Freesound While On the Tinsel Front purports to tell a…
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Episode 1: “Washed Out”
1942. After washing out of flight school in Louisiana, Pvt. Oliver Whelan is assigned to an U.S. Army Air Forces base near Los Angeles, California. He eagerly heads west only to find that there’s been some kind of mistake… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING… with… MUSIC: SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly, Epidemic…
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The Sunset Limited
Ollie: Am catching the train to L.A. tonight, well, actually, tomorrow morning. It leaves around three AM… The train Ollie would have taken from Louisiana to Los Angeles was the Southern Pacific’s SUNSET LIMITED. “The Sunset Limited is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 1,995-mile (3,211 km) route between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, California, with major stops in Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Tucson. Introduced…
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Union Station
Ollie: Dear Bet: A few hours ago we pulled into Union Station in Los Angeles. It’s a big, beautiful building — tall ceilings, impressive wood beams, beautiful Spanish tiles… L.A.’s famous train station — where a newly arrived Ollie takes note of a beautiful girl named Elle — was only three years old in 1942.…
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Pacific Electric Railway Red Cars
Ollie: As instructed, I got off the trolley at the National stop and walked up a block… “The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.” Wikipedia Los Angeles’ once great transit system plays a…