October Road in Monrovia
It’s been a long week. There’s a cold going around Mayflower. Stephanie is just coming off of it and I seem to be merging on to the expressway to Chicken Soup land. Good times. On a Friday night during these exciting times we go to bed early. Or at least we want to. As soon as we turned out the lights, we saw alien craft out our back windows.
What the? Oh, wait: we live in Los Angeles. It’s a film shoot.
Stephanie did a quick bit of sleuthing and found out that a show called “October Road” is shooting all over town this weekend. They’ll be down at the good old Aztec/Brass Elephant all day tomorrow.
The coolest thing? They made it snow. The whole block and all of the lawns along the street were covered with snow and the houses all had Christmas decorations up. It was pretty surreal. There was even a contraption up on a crane to make snow fall during the shoot. (I apologize for the horrible picture here.)
Here’s a better shot of the giant area lamps that they were using to light the entire block up:
There was a pretty good crowd doing more or less what I was doing: Watching the Hollywood people work and taking pictures. None (or very few) of the people in this shot were involved with the shoot. They were all just locals taking in the strangeness.
The only actor there whose name I recognized was Laura Prepon. She seemed nice enough, agreeing to take pictures with the people standing around when she was done working. I didn’t really want to wait around for that, so here’s a very blurry shot of a famous person.
Anyway, fun times in Monrovia, I guess. I’ve lived in and around LA for 13 years now and I’ve never really watched a film shoot happen. There sure is a lot of waiting about.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Turns out that Monrovia in in Massachusetts. Who knew?
From the City Manager’s Office:
Filming. The ABC television series October Road will be filming Christmas scenes, including Christmas decorations and simulated snow, on Friday, September 21, 2007, at 243 N. Encinitas, the 100 block of W. Lime and the west side of the 400 block of S. Myrtle. The scenes in the downtown will require a street closure in the 100 block of W. Lime and will be filmed overnight between 12 midnight and 7:00 a.m.
I’m glad they’re going downtown at midnight, because I don’t think I can stand the sound of the director’s bullhorn much longer. Ah, Hollywood.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Wow, you’re in the hip and happenin’ neighborhood! I love the alien craft pictures, it looks like you woke up on the set of the X-Files.
Hope you’re all on the mend and disembarking the Chicken Soup Express. We’re sadly still stuck on it. Paulie says, trust in the healing power of ramen.