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[sarge]

Roger:

It was the Three Stooges delivering ice. I always wanted to believe they were the same steps for both films, just a decade and a half later or so, but I don't know.

That would be brilliant if they were, though...

[E7]

Another LA landmark might be even more appropriate for this forum, and has an even more prolific cinematic and literary history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_Flight

Rich

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Roger:

It was the Three Stooges delivering ice. I always wanted to believe they were the same steps for both films, just a decade and a half later or so, but I don't know.

That would be brilliant if they were, though...

Yes, and it might very well have been as imitation then was frequent, but look for yourselves and decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7B0NdbCSog

[rogruth]

L&H and the Stooges.Who ever was responsible,probably a group effort for both groups,were of genius level.
My opinion of course.

[rogruth]

Rich,

You may be right but the funicular just isn't funny.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

L&H and the Stooges.Who ever was responsible,probably a group effort for both groups,were of genius level.
My opinion of course.

And, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and then there that other set of brothers, Marx,

[HONDO74]

Laurel and Hardy 'the music box'
Is it the same stairs. ??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-tLlrFq2Q

[rogruth]

L&H and the Stooges.Who ever was responsible,probably a group effort for both groups,were of genius level.
My opinion of course.

And, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and then there that other set of brothers, Marx,

Of course.

[webenda]

Funicular sounds funny.

I rode the Angels Flight Funicular in 1969, before they shut it down and put it in storage for 27 years for an urban renewal project. It was 10 cents one way in 1969. Now I think it is $1.00.

Laurel and Hardy's "Music Box" steps are at 925 Vendome Street, Los Angeles, CA
The same steps were used in the Charley Chase film, "Isn't Life Terrible." (No houses at the base of the steps in 1925.)

The Three Stooges, "An Ache in Every Stake," steps are at 2234 Edendale Place, Los Angeles, CA.

(It is actually 2254 Edendale Pl if you are driving to the location, but Google Earth takes you there if you use 2234 for the address.)

An Ache in Every Stake Steps

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Edit1: Typo--road changed to rode.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks for tracking down those addresses, Wayne!

[webenda]

You are welcome Rufus.

The Angles Flight Funicular replaced a set of steps in the affluent Bunker Hill region of Los Angeles.

If you didn't want to pay the fee to be hauled up to your house, there were steps on the other side of the Hill Street tunnel.

Notice the trolley tracks and overhead trolley wire in this photo. Steps were part of the public transportation system back then,
allowing easier access to homes from where the trolley or bus dropped off passengers.

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If you didn't want to ride the funicular you could always climb over the rubble and take the steps.

Taking the steps.

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I suppose this sign over the Hill Street tunnel belongs in the "Signs" thread.

Speed Limit in the tunnel.

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Edit 1: Typo-"effluent" should be "affluent."
Edit 2: Missed one-"our" should be "your."
Edit 3: "Buss" should be "bus."

[ChipR]

Wayne,

"effluent'?????

ChipR

[webenda]

Chip,

Would you believe some people called the affluent living on Bunker Hill effluent?

No? Well would you believe it was a Freudian slip?

Then how about I am bad at spelling?

The last excuse is correct. Thank you, I made the correction.

[ChipR]

Wayne,

1 &2 sound good to me.

ChipR

[rogruth]

Is that an observation tower in the middle?

Do you know what the rise is here?