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A photo mounted on the wall beside text that reads, “Executives - Legendary studio mogul Louis b. mayer cofounded and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) from the company’s inception in 1924 until 1951. Overseeing the production and sitribution of hundreds of movies through creative, financial, casting, and hiring decisions, his power was vast. He established MGM's reputation for big-budget films with some of the most popular stars of Hollywood’s classical era, including Judy Garland. Mayer could be very demanding of his stars, and the studio kept Garland on a destructive cycle of dieting and pills. Galrand later wrote that she was harassed by Mayer for years, though this publiciyt short casts him as a benevolent patriarch.”

Shout out to executives. Wait—

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A hat stand in a gift shop. Lots of Mario characters made to be oversized hats—goombas, Bowser, and Toad

Goomba hat

Universal Studios Hollywood

Hogwarts Castle at night

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

A quiet cobblestone street. The snowy roofs of Hogsmeade are approaching in the distance.

Love this liminal space

Universal Studios Hollywood

A set from the movie NOPE—it's the collapsed Star Lasso Experience building, broken neon signs and splintered wood

It's the thing from the thing!

Universal Studios Tram Tour

The set of Jupiter's Claim, a faux themed Western town, as seen from an approach tram car.

We're headed into the thing from the thing!

Universal Studios Tram Tour

An actor in a tan jacket stands on the porch of an old mansion. He's reaching into his jacket for a big knife.

Norman Bates just hangs out on the tram tour all day

Universal Studios Tram Tour

The interior of a shadowbox, seen through a peephole that obscures the borders of the photo. It's like a layered old sepia photograph, bridges and canoes and old houses and a rollercoaster

I love it so much

Abbot-Kinney

A rusty wooden box on a pole, about the size of a shoebox and at roughly head-height. There's a whole punched in one side and it says PEEK HERE

What's that?

Abbot-Kinney

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