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ChineseUm, Excuse Me, Does The Green Line Go To Tamarack?
Here’s some mass transit fun. While leaving the Pershing Square station on the Red/Purple line today, I saw this bizarre subway route map standing next to the escalator. It took me about half a second to realize this was a prop for some upcoming movie shoot. But they did a great job designing this totally fictional system map, which is fascinating. It shows a fake non-place, with some place names from L.A. and others from Washington D.C. Oddly, they’re using the real MTA “Metro” logo though. (Sorry, my camera freaked out here.)
Take a closer look. Meet you at Jack Avenue!
On the back of the map stand was this lenticular map, three maps in one actually, depending on the angle where you stood. This one has place names from New York City. Must have cost a bundle to make this.
The Pershing Square station was playing the part of the 14th Street Station on the Green Line. Okay then. Note Metro logo at left.
At this fake newstand was the security guy, keeping a close dutiful watch on all these expensive sets…oh no, wait…Dude’s reading a magazine.
The funniest part of this was that while I was taking these pictures, a number of people stopped and looked at this map, trying to figure out what the hell it showed and where they were. “Don’t bother homez,” I told the guy, who looked stumped, “that map isn’t real.” He wouldn’t believe me. As far I know, he’s still looking for the Gold Line to City Center Plaza.
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Probably a movie shoot.
Haha, I wonder how many more folks were confused by this.
Hahahahaha. That’s great. Poor anybody who was riding and didn’t know
the system by heart that day. Its really great how there’s no
disclaimer anywhere so people r even slightly hinted that this isn’t
real. Of course the city probably doesn’t feel its necessary since
nobody could ever possibly mistake this extensive “metro” rail map with
our sad reality of a metro rail map.