L.A. mystery street in "Dead Man's Curve"
Elson Trinidad
><<[The next line sounds to me like:
>"I flew past LaBrea, schwapps, and Crescent Drive"]>>
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>This is coming off the top of my head, and it's after midnight (Pacific
>Time), but I think the reference is to *Schwab's,* a pharmacy on Sunset at
>the eastern end of the stretch known as "Sunset Strip" or "The Strip."
>This is the legendary drug store where Lana Turner was supposedly
>discovered sitting at a bar stool at the soda fountain.
The long-gone Schwab's Drugstore was located on Sunset & Highland, over a
mils and a half from where the Sunset Strip begins (The 'Strip' is the
area of Sunset Blvd from Crescent Heights (or Fairfax) to the east, to
the Beverly Hills city boundary to the west. The Drugstore was across the
street from Hollywood High School. To go "La Brea - Schwabs - Crescent
(drive? Assuming it's 'Crescent Heights') would indicate going westward on
Sunset, though the first two are out of sequence: Schwabs would be first,
then La Brea. But I guess it sounds better in the phrasing...
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Kentaur
"I flew past LaBrea, schwapps, and Crescent Drive"]>>
This is coming off the top of my head, and it's after midnight (Pacific
Time), but I think the reference is to *Schwab's,* a pharmacy on Sunset at
the eastern end of the stretch known as "Sunset Strip" or "The Strip."
This is the legendary drug store where Lana Turner was supposedly
discovered sitting at a bar stool at the soda fountain.
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Ken Williamson
Kim Cooper
: <<[The next line sounds to me like:
: "I flew past LaBrea, schwapps, and Crescent Drive"]>>
:
: This is coming off the top of my head, and it's after midnight (Pacific
: Time), but I think the reference is to *Schwab's,* a pharmacy on Sunset at
: the eastern end of the stretch known as "Sunset Strip" or "The Strip."
: This is the legendary drug store where Lana Turner was supposedly
: discovered sitting at a bar stool at the soda fountain.
the lyric -- the drugstore was located just East of the corner
of Sunset and Crescent Heights, so it fits the narrative. I've
always wondered exactly where Dead Man's Curve was, tho', as the
Beverly Hills stretch of Sunset is a pretty pleasant driving street,
with only a few tough hairpins over by UCLA.
-Kim
Brian D. Phillips
: Beverly Hills stretch of Sunset is a pretty pleasant driving street,
: with only a few tough hairpins over by UCLA.
If I recall, it is the same curve that Ernie Kovacs died on.
Brian
JimAKing
writes:
> I've
>always wondered exactly where Dead Man's Curve was, tho', as the
>Beverly Hills stretch of Sunset is a pretty pleasant driving street,
>with only a few tough hairpins over by UCLA.
I believe that Dead Man's Curve is at the intersection of Sunset Blvd and
Cory Avenue where the west section of Doheny splits from Sunset (two
blocks west of the south Doheny intersection) just before you enter
Beverly Hills from West Hollywood traveling west. Apparently the curve
was more pronounced in the 60's before Sunset was widened in that area.
Today the Jag would end up in the lobby of City National Bank. I passed
it this afternoon and imagined the "Jag sliding into the curve". At a
high rate of speed, it would be fatal.
By the way, the lyric is not...
"I flew past LaBrea, schwapps, and Crescent Drive"
...but actually is...
"I flew past La Brea, Schwab's, and Crescent Heights"
(La Brea as in La Brea Av, Schwab's as in the drugstore, and Crescent
Heights as in Crescent Heights Blvd, to rhyme with "six tail lights")
~ Jim
Kim Fosbe
>In article <474o5n$5...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Kentaur <ken...@aol.com> wrote:
>><<[The next line sounds to me like:
>>"I flew past LaBrea, schwapps, and Crescent Drive"]>>
>>
>>This is coming off the top of my head, and it's after midnight (Pacific
>>Time), but I think the reference is to *Schwab's,* a pharmacy on Sunset at
>>the eastern end of the stretch known as "Sunset Strip" or "The Strip."
>>This is the legendary drug store where Lana Turner was supposedly
>>discovered sitting at a bar stool at the soda fountain.
>The long-gone Schwab's Drugstore was located on Sunset & Highland, over a
>mils and a half from where the Sunset Strip begins (The 'Strip' is the
>area of Sunset Blvd from Crescent Heights (or Fairfax) to the east, to
>the Beverly Hills city boundary to the west. The Drugstore was across the
>street from Hollywood High School. To go "La Brea - Schwabs - Crescent
>(drive? Assuming it's 'Crescent Heights') would indicate going westward on
>Sunset, though the first two are out of sequence: Schwabs would be first,
>then La Brea. But I guess it sounds better in the phrasing...
I always thought it was Slauson, but I don't know LA vey well. I know that
Slauson and LaBrea intersect, but both of them are streets that people
like me who have lived in Illinois and Nebraska know.
Norm Katuna
writes:
>In article <478bub$n...@marina.cinenet.net>, mo...@cinenet.net (Kim
Cooper)
>writes:
>
>> I've
>>always wondered exactly where Dead Man's Curve was, tho', as the
>>Beverly Hills stretch of Sunset is a pretty pleasant driving street,
>>with only a few tough hairpins over by UCLA.
>
>I believe that Dead Man's Curve is at the intersection of Sunset Blvd
and
>Cory Avenue where the west section of Doheny splits from Sunset (two
>blocks west of the south Doheny intersection) just before you enter
>Beverly Hills from West Hollywood traveling west.
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No, I don't think that was where it was.
I used to cruise Hollywood and Sunset blvds in the 60s. Lot's of times
we would continue on Sunset through Beverly Hills and into West L. A.
and Brentwood. Deadman's curve was just outside of Beverly Hills at
the west end, between Beverly Hills and UCLA. Probably 1/4 to 1 mile
outside of Beverly Hills, from what I remember. It has been close to
20 years since I was last in that area, so senility could be setting
in.
Norm Katuna
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David
CATHERINE ROPER
Brian D. Phillips (bph...@curly.cc.emory.edu) wrote:
: :I've always wondered exactly where Dead Man's Curve was, tho', as the
: : Beverly Hills stretch of Sunset is a pretty pleasant driving street,
: : with only a few tough hairpins over by UCLA.
: If I recall, it is the same curve that Ernie Kovacs died on.
: Brian
Dead Man's Curve is a treacherous bend on Sunset Boulevard in Los
Angeles. Ironically it was very close to Whitter Boulevard where Jan
Berry, one of the performers of "Dead Man's Curve" was paralyzed in a car
accident.
Catherine
BEL
corvette, that would be on Whitten Street in Beverly Hills, approaching
the first curve south of Sunset...Although I agree that a more romantic
site for dead mans curve would be @ 3/4 mile west. It is imposssible to
drive through that stretch without speeding just a little.
happy motoring idyl
BEL
writes:
Actually I looked up the address and realized that it wasn't Whiten
Street but Whitier DR. in the 800 block, and coincidentally it was
across and just up the street from where Bugsy Siegal was murdered on
North Linden
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