While in Orange County, California last week, I stayed at my former roommate's mom's house. One night, we decided to pop in a DVD of Airplane! (1980). It had been ages since I last viewed the movie (I have it on VHS, but have (at present) no working VHS player).
It was fun seeing Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) before the upper deck roadway and other changes were made just before the 1984 Olympics.
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| Above, Howard Jarvis in the taxi cab in the movie. |
Many of the actors in the movie have since passed on, such as Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielson and Howard Jarvis (the man who sat in a taxi at the airport throughout the movie). Jarvis is best known for Proposition 13, the Jarvis-Gann property tax reduction initiative.
The first time I saw Airplane! was during its initial release in a double-feature with Caddyshack at the theaters in the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California. The theater was full and the audience enjoyed both movies.
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