Flint Ironstag: Anyone have a link to the same streets today?

The first clip starts on (probably) 2nd and Olive. Makes a left onto Grand, then continues on Grand until about 6th or Wilshire.

I can't place the next two clips, but in the second clip, it looks like they go by City Hall Park. If that is correct, they then make a left onto Main.

It's like playing LA Noire.

Check out the traffic signals... a good shot of one is at 3:39 .. in one part you can see a signal transitioning from go to stop.

That's cool, but it made me feel queasy after about two minutes. Things are very... tilty.

Yeah, whoever digitized it should have ran it through an anti-shake filter at least. Oh well, still damn impressive.

Flint Ironstag: It's changed a bit....

Yes. But check it out.... the tunnel at 2nd and Hill is there. Right when the clip starts (0:30), the camera is on 2nd, above Olive (Olive is the cross street). You can see the railing above the tunnel.

Old shot from below the tunnel.
And Now.

at 0:57, the Disney Concert Hall will be where the brick wall and palm tree are. Needless to say, all the buildings on Grand are gone. Also, because Grand is elevated, there isn't a sharp descent like in the clip.

Looks like it ends right at about Grand and Hope.

And inside the car:

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I was way ahead of the finance company. I knew they'd be becoming around and I wasn't taking any chances. So I kept it across the street in a parking lot behind Rudy's shoeshine parlor. Rudy never asked any questions about your finances... he'd just look at your heels and know the score.

So I let her have it, straight between the eyes. She didn't fool me for a minute, not this time. I knew I had hold of a red-hot poker and the time to drop it was before it burned my hand off. I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle of beer, the one I had wanted all along, only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea, and everything that went with it. I didn't want to go back to the office, so I dropped by a bowling alley at Third and Western and rolled a few lines to get my mind thinking about something else for a while.

Looked at the second and third clips again. Second Clip starts at 2nd and Olive also. Makes a left onto Grand. (Compare the clips by looking at the building on the left of the screen at the corner when the camera turns from 2nd onto Grand.) Goes down Grand to 5th. Turns right on 5th. What I thought was City Hall Park is actually a park that doesn't exist anymore. The Camera then drives past the LA Library, makes a right on Flower. Then the second clip stops.

The third clip goes up Flower and makes a right on either 3rd or 2nd. Flower doesn't go through to 2nd now. I'm guessing the camera makes a right on 3rd, goes up the hill, and then the clip ends.

Hand Banana: Probably obvious but these were used as the background scenery in movies were someone was supposed to be driving. They would film the actor in a prop car against a green screen with a film like this playing on it.

This is the correct answer.