LA River channel, location?

[Prof Klyzlr]

Dear RMWebbers,

 

The music is alright, the visuals of a guy wearing a fireworks suit are a bit odd, but the backgrounds of the LA River channel and bridges screamed out to me as research fodder for a LA River layout. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the locations?
(It's rare to get even blurry bridge-underside shots, and I'd imagine any model of the channel really needs to nail the concrete bridge construction?)

 

Start looking closely at 1:07

 

 

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

[Glorious NSE]

http://goo.gl/maps/8L372

(Wonder if they had permission to be the wrong side of the railroad's fence...)

[trisonic]

I dunno, Martyn, but there have been so many films and vids using the "LA River" as a backdrop/integral part that it has long been a cliche!

Yet it is still being done.

 

Best, Pete.

[JWB]

I'm pretty sure the bridge seen closest is the Olympic Bl bridge. It's worth pointing out that Bob Smaus and Bruce Petty have both modeled LA-style concrete arch bridges and/or the LA River bank -- Petty to the point that he has police cars in the bed with giant insects crawling out of the drain pipes.

[Prof Klyzlr]

Dear JWB,

 

RE Smaus and Petty, can we define "modern"? Have to say I've poured over every Smaus article I could find, and all over Petty's website, but in direct comparison to the 00-10s era proto photos on RRPictureArchive and similar, and evewn Flickr, they seem

- a of a significantly earlier era

- decidedly "clean"

(Petty's concrete is nicely and subtly weathered, but FFwd to the "noughties", and the embankment appears to be a pockmarked collage of texture worn concrete, grafitti, painted-over/patched graf, concrete cancer bleeds, and algae-wrapped abandoned shopping trolleys, at least as far as the proto pics on RRPictureArchive and Flickr would suggest...)

 

Question, do we happen to know the actual depth of the channel (assuming 45 deg embankment walls), or have a profile available for the Olympic Bl section of the river?

 

Happy Modelling,

Aim to Improve,

Prof Klyzlr

[clark33]

Try Google image search '... los angeles river bridge ...'

[clark33]

Better still Google image search '... los angeles bridge river railroad 6th ...'

[JWB]

Prof, exactly what you did with timing the scene would be up to you, and somewhat up in the air. There are certainly expanses of concrete that are more or less bare of graffiti, others where it's painted out. In other cases, given the actual size of a model, the graffiti might not be all that noticeable.

 

 

[Adrian Wintle]

You could always model it as it was in ~'93 when the drought broke - full to the brim...

 

For a number of years prior to that the LA area was in a drought situation - hotel rooms had notices asking you to save water (while the City of Torrance watered it's grassy areas in the middle of the day!).

 

Adrian