Filming Downtown L.A.

Sometimes I think that Downtown Los Angeles is one giant film set. Over the past several decades, the big movie production houses have sold off their back lots and now seem to use real world environs. Walking around Downtown, one often finds really odd things left over from old film shoots. My favorite was a restaurant store front on the edge of Skid Row that read "Burgers 'n Shit."

Really, you can't paint over that stuff once you are finished with the one-day shoot you did here? The neighborhood (Fourth & Main Streets) has to look at it for months?

Here is what I saw when I was Downtown a couple days ago. I think Fourth/Main must be the most-filmed-intersection of the most-filmed-neighborhood on Earth. Literally!