Los Angeles residents can appreciate ...

I'm adding something important for Angelenos who are interested in local history. I'm adding it to the following post that can be found in an old thread that has been inactive for almost a year.

the park exteriors are at 6th and 7th at Alvarado (Macarthur park) in LA

the park interiors as well as Selina's tree we're in Cohn Park Lot #2 at MGM Culver city (town homes now in this location).

What I am looking for is the building used for the exterior of Gordan's apt. (I think it's in the Macarthur park area.

The area that is now serviced by the Metrorail Red Line station called Westlake / MacArthur Park constitutes the many long shots of moving pedestrians and logos on store exteriors, including Rexall's Drug, and on trucks, such as Westlake Moving.

Selina and Gordon enter her favorite park at MacArthur Park. As soon as they are surrounded by grass, trees and public restrooms, they are on the old MGM studio lot in Culver City. That studio lot is all gone now.

Another detail about the street scenes in an area that more than thirty years later got a Metrorail station. That area is now a dirty, smelly Latino shopping area with many panhandlers. I mean the sidewalks and taco joints are dirty and smelly. I don't mean the people.

Here is something about the movie that can make you sad, as if permanent blindness isn't sad enough. You witness on your flat screen that this neighborhood was much cleaner when the movie was filmed, and it had very few, if any, homeless back then. You realize that prejudice against groups of people have had worse consequences for Spanish speakers than it did for a white - collar professional such as Sidney Poitier's character Gordon.