{"id":61145,"date":"2025-11-20T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61145\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:17:08","slug":"long-beach-neighborhood-is-famed-anyplace-usa-for-film-industry-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61145\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Neighborhood Is Famed ‘Anyplace, USA’ For Film Industry: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 When people think of California’s Hollywood-esque neighborhoods, Long Beach may not be the first to come to mind.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cbefore Hollywood, Long Beach<\/a> was the epicenter of the early film industry,\u201d and that has continued to well into the current era of film-making, SF Gate reported.<\/p>\n

Nestled in Los Cerritos, which stood in for “anyplace, USA,\u201d are homes that were featured in the cult classics \u201cFerris Bueller’s Day Off<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDonnie Darko<\/a>\u201d and \u201cAmerican Pie<\/a>,\u201d all of which are within a half mile of one another, the newest outlet reported.<\/p>\n

\"\"The home featured in “Donnie Darko” is tucked away in Long Beach, SF Gate reports. Photo: Google Maps <\/p>\n

\u201cShaded by leafy trees and paved with wide roads, the neighborhood features Spanish Colonial estates alongside Tudor mansions, midcentury homes and a variety of other architectural styles,\u201d SF Gate reported.<\/p>\n

RELATED: ‘Dexter’ Shooting on Pomona Avenue in Long Beach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 When people think of California’s Hollywood-esque neighborhoods, Long Beach may not be the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-61145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}