Home is Where the Heart Is
I watched a soundstage blaze devour nearly two city blocks worth of the Universal Studios backlot today. It was hard being so far away from the place where I'd spent my first significant gig in Los Angeles.
I found myself trying to identify the buildings, trying to remember every street and every highlight of the tour I used to give seven times a day, up to five days a week (it was a part-time job).
As the fire broke out, there was little information available online. I was tempted to call the fire station on the lot as I dug through my memory, trying desperately to recall the facts, routes and history I'd crammed into my head during tour guide training so many years ago.
Photos from the L.A. Fire Department Flickr feed.
It was no use. I helplessly watched the blaze take out facades I'd walked past and buildings I'd walked through. I worried that Stage 28, where Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" was filmed, and where my friends and I spent an evening as "atmosphere" for a Hollywood mogul's birthday party, might burn down too.
As futile as it might have been, and has maligned as the backlot might be, I couldn't help but think: I should have been there.
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