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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
...and Yes, I used to go to Video West quite often.
Still there after all these years. 
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I probably met you back then
E_R, who knew?
Video West was the first strictly video rental place in West Hollywood when it opened in 1983,
even before Wherehouse or Tower or any of the others. And how, I don't know, but, yes,
it is STILL there! In fact, it's the only one left that I know of! There used to be dozens around.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
...like where exactly the PDC is located in separate photographs, for example.
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Speaking of the PDC,
Pacific Design Center:
I suppose these buildings haven't been mentioned on NLA because they don't really conjure up images of
the past or noir, although many 1970's photos have shown up on NLA and that's when the first of the PDC
buildings appeared in 1975. Argentinean architect Cesar Pelli is the designer and called it Center Blue. A
Los Angeles times critic mentioned that it looked like a whale and the name stuck. The building is commonly
referred to as the Blue Whale.
Center Green opened in 1988. Although nicknames were bandied about for this building like "the cucumber,"
which probably didn't stick because it's not at all shaped like one, and "Emerald City," most people ordinarily
just refer to it as "the green building."
There are a couple escalator towers that have circles of light which can be manipulated to shine different colors
or multiple colors or they can fade in and out or any number of other patterns.
A long planned third phase, Center Red, was announced in April 2006, and was completed in 2011.
It looks like the prow of a ship sailing into port. Some have tried naming this one the ruby slipper, but
I hear "the red building" most often.
Business Wire
There is a smallish building, comparatively, on the grounds, occupied by MOCA and it has a yellowish sandy
finish to it, but is not glass, as the others are.
Yelp
I read one time the design was supposed to reflect what the natural crystal shapes of various minerals are like,
but I don't recall that mentioned any other time.
I'd lke to see the buildings lit up at night on a regular basis, or at least on weekends. but they are rarely illuminated at all. The fountains outside are lit up frequently, though.
from a Shutterstock video time lapse
The buildings are probably too obvious to be used much in films or tv shows as after one time in a famous film they'd
be pretty recognizable. I know that the film LIPSTICK, a thriller, released in 1976 and shot before the Blue Whale
was open was filmed there. The green building was Sandra Bullocks apartment building in DEMOLITION MAN. I 've
noticed that many automobile commercials have used them as a backdrop.
Go Los Angeles