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Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge

Fan -

This does not look like the building in your pictures, but the other building in the movie.

I will go back to look.

Diana

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge

DMC
Fan -

This does not look like the building in your pictures, but the other building in the movie.

I will go back to look.

Diana


Yeah, the picture I posted from that site said the building appeared in Meeting at Midnight, but it's not the same building as the pictures I posted from the movie. I could check later, I know there's at least two exterior scenes in that movie.

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge

Dear DMC,

Off topic a bit, but thank you for your insights regarding a possible location for "Black Magic"/"Meeting at Midnight." I have always thought that the action probaby took place in Los Angeles, as there is certainly a "big city" feel, and, it seemed to me that Mr. Chan may have picked up at least one of his gifts (the jumping beans, and perhaps the others as well) just south of or near to the Mexican border. However, your possible Berkeley connection adds something to the mix! (In another film, Tommy appears on a case and his Pop asks him why he is not hard at work at his studies at University of California. This is most probably a reference to U.C. Berkeley, which could connect Son Number Three with that city. The exact film elludes me at present. So, as daughter Frances assists Chan in "Black Magic," could we surmise that her brother, Tommy, is hard at work in college in Berkeley while she is with her father in L.A.?)

Sincerely,
Rush

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge (The identity of the building)

I found that the building in question was the old Hall of Records in Los Angeles. You can see it with a little information on "Old Los Angeles" at this address: http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal6.html

Sincerely,
Rush

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge (The identity of the building)

Thanks for finding the building for us Rush. I have always wondered, it is so distinctive.

Is it still around? When we lived in LA county, in the 1960s, we tried to avoid going downtown at all, due to the traffic. We lived in Altadena.

Speaking of which, I have always thought that Charlie's time killing taxi ride in "Secret Service" ended up going through Pasadena (I know, it is supposed to be set back east somewhere, nevermind the bear on the flag).

We have always thought that the entire sequence from going through the lobby, getting in the taxi, and walking up that driveway to that dramatic music was silly and kind of funny. Don't remember if we've ever seen anything quite like it in another Chan movie.

Diana

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge (The identity of the building)

Ha ha. Yes that loong Taxi ride of Charlie's in "Secret Service" was astonishingly overdramatic. You think they could've used all that extra time to remove or hide the Bear flag atop the building.

Re: CC Seeing Double - A CC Challenge (The identity of the building)

Rush Glick
I found that the building in question was the old Hall of Records in Los Angeles. You can see it with a little information on "Old Los Angeles" at this address: http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal6.html

Sincerely,
Rush


Thanks Rush for solving the Mystery of the Mysterious Building!

Reminder: Round 9 of The Charlie Chan Game Sunday 5pm EST

Just thought I'd stick a reminder here. A new round of the Charlie Chan game this Sunday at 5pm EST.