CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[Gone in 60]

I rode to Long Beach on an errand yesterday, wanting to test fit some luggage on my bike. I had a little time to kill along the way, so I decided to get some photos of some filming locations that were on top of my head in the area. Plus, Mother Nature flipped the switch to turn off our June Gloom and bring on sunny skies.

The Goodyear Blimp “airport “ was locked up and the blimp was no doubt flying around somewhere. But, the plot of Black Sunday involves hijacking the blimp from this location and using it to bomb the Super Bowl in a terrorist act.


The cruise ship terminal in L.A. Harbor has expanded quite a bit since the late 70s, but if you watched the show Love Boat, every episode started here.


Adjacent to the cruise ship terminal is the battleship USS Iowa, which has been used in multiple films.


The Vincent Thomas Bridge has been used in several films, but probably most ridiculously remembered for Nicholas Cage’s jump across a span of the bridge in the 2000 version of Gone in 60 seconds.


Finally, in plenty of crime films shot in the area, the bad guys like to meet up to plan their crimes in the container freight yards in LA Harbor. One off the top of my head is Heat. I guess it just looks cool. But the funny thing is, you can’t just drive into a container freight yard… they have security!

The intersection of Pine Street and Ocean Blvd is a popular setting in car chase films. The buildings are almost unrecognizable now, but in the original Gone in 60 Seconds , HB Halicki comes down this hill and goes around the building on the right.


This was also one of the intersections used where the two cabs are chasing Spencer Tracy in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.