{"id":409,"date":"2004-08-11T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/11\/toluca-lake-california-25\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T06:30:00","slug":"toluca-lake-california-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/11\/toluca-lake-california-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Toluca Lake, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poor attempt to show what the Warner Brothers lot is like (satellite photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/terraserver.microsoft.com\/\">http:\/\/terraserver.microsoft.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the big white squares on the left are soundstages.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Big&#8221; soundstage is the thing that you see just before the Warner Brothers logo in the movies.  It has the same footprint as the other soundstages, but is considerably taller.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly less than half of the stages have regular shows that film in them &#8212; Friends (now Joey), ER, West Wing, Gilmore Girls, Two and a Half Men, and a few others I&#8217;m probably forgetting.  Most of the WB network shows shoot at a separate lot that is about a mile down the road.<\/li>\n<li>The soundstages that aren&#8217;t used for TV shows are usually either empty or else used for whatever movies are filming (at the moment Ocean&#8217;s Twelve is using three stages).<\/li>\n<li>The outdoor sets cover a big chunk of the east side of the lot and include everything from ER&#8217;s County General Hospital to a row of brownstones to the New York alley that the Spider-Man upside-down kiss was filmed in.  They&#8217;re used nearly every day for whatever is shooting that needs an outdoor setting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Warner Brothers Studio Lot\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"448\" src=\"\/images\/warnerbros-lot.gif\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poor attempt to show what the Warner Brothers lot is like (satellite photo courtesy of http:\/\/terraserver.microsoft.com\/). Most of the big white squares on the left are soundstages. The &#8220;Big&#8221; soundstage is the thing that you see just before the Warner Brothers logo in the movies. It has the same footprint as the other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/11\/toluca-lake-california-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toluca Lake, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}