Actually, a friend was the stunt coordinator on Grease 2 and we filmed at Norwalk High…I think they mentioned the first one was filmed there too. Carthay Center School (my old school, like voxpop, I grew up on Commodore Sloat Drive) can be seen in a few scenes of Paul Mazursky’s “Alex in Wonderland”. In the background of one scenes you can see the awful insurance building being constructed on the site of the freshly demolished theatre. However, if you run the film slowly, you can see Donald Sutherland drive by our old gas station when he drops off his daughter at the school…there was a gas station attached to the property along with Figart’s electronic store. In front of the Theatre was the Green’s grocery store/deli.
I sadly saw the ‘69 demolition. Like another poster on the Carthay Circle page on this website, I also grew up on Commodore Sloat Drive and went to Carthay Center School. An artist family (my profession as well) now lives our old house and their nephew painted a mural of the theatre on our old garage! Mr. & Mrs Green were our neighbors and owned an actual grocery store on the Carthay Theatre building. In the black and white photo above, you can see the edge of it to the left, behind Padilla’s gold miner statue. They had the best sandwiches there…sawdust on the floor of the deli…anyway, it makes me sick to see that horror of an insurance building that was forced into and onto that historic ground!
Actually, a friend was the stunt coordinator on Grease 2 and we filmed at Norwalk High…I think they mentioned the first one was filmed there too. Carthay Center School (my old school, like voxpop, I grew up on Commodore Sloat Drive) can be seen in a few scenes of Paul Mazursky’s “Alex in Wonderland”. In the background of one scenes you can see the awful insurance building being constructed on the site of the freshly demolished theatre. However, if you run the film slowly, you can see Donald Sutherland drive by our old gas station when he drops off his daughter at the school…there was a gas station attached to the property along with Figart’s electronic store. In front of the Theatre was the Green’s grocery store/deli.
I sadly saw the ‘69 demolition. Like another poster on the Carthay Circle page on this website, I also grew up on Commodore Sloat Drive and went to Carthay Center School. An artist family (my profession as well) now lives our old house and their nephew painted a mural of the theatre on our old garage! Mr. & Mrs Green were our neighbors and owned an actual grocery store on the Carthay Theatre building. In the black and white photo above, you can see the edge of it to the left, behind Padilla’s gold miner statue. They had the best sandwiches there…sawdust on the floor of the deli…anyway, it makes me sick to see that horror of an insurance building that was forced into and onto that historic ground!