# What Is That Industrial area In LA Where All The Car Commercials Are Shot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064 "2015-10-18T23:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/1 "2015-10-18T23:30:09Z")
It has concrete overpasses and very few buildings. I’ve seen it in many car commercials, it was also used in “Fast and Furious”, “American Graffitti”, and “Repo Man”-to name a few. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/2 "2015-10-18T23:32:55Z")
The Los Angeles Aqueduct. Prolly the parts in or around City of Industry. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/3 "2015-10-19T00:08:10Z")
LA River > [@](#): > > Numerous films and television programs have featured various sites along the Los Angeles River. Films involving the river include Transformers, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Last Action Hero, The Gumball Rally, Chinatown, Them!, The Core, In Time, It’s Alive, Grease, Point Blank, Repo Man, Fear The Walking Dead, The Italian Job, Point Break, Gone in 60 Seconds, To Live and Die in L.A., Blood In Blood Out, Cleopatra Jones, Blue Thunder, I Got The Hook Up and Drive. > **[Los Angeles River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River#)** > > The Los Angeles River (Spanish: Río de Los Ángeles), historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish, is a major river in Los Angeles County, California. Its headwaters are in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and it flows nearly 51 miles (82 km) from Canoga Park through the San Fernando Valley, Downtown Los Angeles, and the Gateway Cities to its mouth in Long Beach, where it flows into San Pedro Bay. While the ... ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/4 "2015-10-19T00:28:35Z")
Its a river that was concretized to stop flooding. Some want it restored. It was never an aqueduct. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/5 "2015-10-19T00:30:54Z")
L.A. River. The 4th Street Bridge is popular, and goes over the river. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/6 "2015-10-19T00:54:24Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > LA River > > [Los Angeles River - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_River#) > [@madsircool](#): > > Its a river that was concretized to stop flooding. Some want it restored. It was never an aqueduct. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > L.A. River. The 4th Street Bridge is popular, and goes over the river. Mea culpa. I don’t live there and was going by memory, which was obviously a tad off. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/7 "2015-10-19T02:24:24Z")
Also the Walt Disney Concert Hall is in almost every car commercial with a city scene. I think the newly opened Broad Museum across the street will start to show up more as well. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/8 "2015-10-19T06:17:18Z")
And if it isn’t downtown, it’s the PCH near Point Mugu. That rock is in so many car commercials, I felt I had to take a picture of my car there, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/9 "2015-10-19T07:55:44Z")
By PCH, do you meant the Pacific Coast Highway? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/10 "2015-10-19T10:14:11Z")
That’s why I learned to call it as a kid in LA. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/11 "2015-10-19T10:32:43Z")
The Vincent Thomas Bridge (down in Long Beach) and the Four Level Interchange in downtown Los Angeles also get a lot of play in car commercials as well as film and television features. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/12 "2015-10-19T14:04:11Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > That’s why I learned to call it as a kid in LA. That’s what the locals call it. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-industrial-area-in-la-where-all-the-car-commercials-are-shot/735064/13 "2015-10-19T19:25:27Z")
It’s actually a soundstage on the Moon; they just dress it to look like Los Angeles.