While watching the lastest installment of the most played out show in the history of television (though it was funny to see that guy punch himself) I started messing around with google maps’ street view. I was searching in the los angeles area from the hollywood hills to south central. I found the watt’s towers and jordan downs where kane lived in menace II society. The coolest find I stumbled across was the house where craig lived at in the film Friday. On imdb, it says that the film was shot at 126th St. in Los Angeles. Well 126th spans over several miles in the Los Angeles, so there was no finding it clicking all the way down the thing. Then I remember smokey saying something about calling a bag of weed a “twenty twen twen” between normadie and western, which fortunately is only a span of a few blocks. After a quick virtual walk down the steet, there it was.
The house has since been painted a different color, but the brick porch remains in tact. The trees that seperate craig and Stanley’s yard are there in plain view. And kitty corner from the house the Ms. Parker’s with the retaining wall that the little dude takes the brick out and throws at bernie mac’s car.
Here see for your self. Click on this link, the on the street view button. Its on the south side of 126th St.
Next, its off to find tre’s house in boyz in the hood. Oh and on a side note, I just discovered the credits from quicksilver that list lawrence Laurence Fishburne as “Larry Fishburne”. Then after a quick look on imdb he was credited as Larry until 1992. Interesting tibit. Well to me at least.
As you can see getting home from my “bongs and beer-pong” wild teenage party I sit on the computer and while looking for additions to my birthday list i wondered what Joe was up too
Although my disappointment for my own brother-in-law not to mention me in any post I forgot to thank you for changing my life and showing my “Menace II society”
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