Season 4, Episodes 22-23

 It's been a while since I posted! I'm back with a couple of episodes with some cool truck footage.

 Shock it to me (Episode 22)

No idea where this is, except it's definitely nowhere near Washington, DC. Maybe Arizona?

 

This is Washington, DC, though not the city morgue.

 

It is the Russell Senate Office Building. Here it is today; the cameraman would have been standing by the US Capitol to take this shot.

 

A stock shot of Dr. Zharko's island. I wonder where this really is.

 

Leadside (Episode 23)  

The National Museum. Not the Smithsonian, it's the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

 

Here it is today.

 

There is some fun truck footage in this episode. I thought it might be difficult to figure out where it was but it turned out to be pretty easy, though I can't ID the Atlas business or the billboard with the ad that starts with You'll.

 

This is the building that made it easy. TV 40 was KLXA, and this was their studio at 816 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles. Not the Maryland state line!

 

The building is currently empty but still stands today.

 

A nice thing about the shots of the truck is that the footage actually matches the road, at least until the end of the sequence. After passing the studio, the truck passes another building which has a billboard mounted next to it. That's a very orange car ad! Don't know which make, though. Camaro?

 

Today, we can see that there is a new building, but the billboard apparatus appears to be the same!

 

The truck passes a parking lot . . . 

 

. . . still a lot, though the area is more built up now.

 

After some dialogue inside the truck, the camera cuts back, and the truck is exactly where we left it, now at the other end of the parking lot with the other billboard.

 

This billboard is still extant as well.

 

Immediately past the billboard we see a sign for appliances.

 

The traffic light causes a little slapstick humor. I don't know if this is also Highland Street - certainly an interesting dog-shaped sign in the background.

 

When the light changes we see more of the building with the appliances sign, and with it a sign for plumbing. It turns out this is J. Hokom Plumbing Supply, also seen in the 1948 film Walk a Crooked Mile.

 

Here is the building today.

 

Later on we see the truck, this time going the opposite way.

 

As the truck passes the TV 40 studios again, we can see an Esso truck on the corner, and the billboard we see in the first shot, now clearly visible as Chevrolet. 

 

Today that location is Just Tires.

 

Besides the trucks, it's also worth taking a look at ARDVARC. Here we can clearly see that it is a cathode ray oscilloscope from DuMont Laboratories.

 

This model was manufactured in 1954. See the Oscilloscope Museum for more information.