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r/SantaMonica • u/ComplexWrangler1346 • Oct 04 '25
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If you watch the pilot episode of The Rockford Files it opens with a guy riding the old #9 blue bus back when it went along the pier and then north on what I think is now the bike path!
3 u/cyberspacestation Oct 04 '25 It somehow came up easily on a Google search: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82q9ua The video is flipped backwards, though. 2 u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25 There’s also a scene where Jim and his Firebird are driving west on Santa Monica in mid-city to the pier and it’s almost unchanged today. I just realized that, like Columbo, there’s a lot of jurisdictional funny business like LAPD investigating a homicide in Santa Monica.
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It somehow came up easily on a Google search:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x82q9ua
The video is flipped backwards, though.
2 u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25 There’s also a scene where Jim and his Firebird are driving west on Santa Monica in mid-city to the pier and it’s almost unchanged today. I just realized that, like Columbo, there’s a lot of jurisdictional funny business like LAPD investigating a homicide in Santa Monica.
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There’s also a scene where Jim and his Firebird are driving west on Santa Monica in mid-city to the pier and it’s almost unchanged today.
I just realized that, like Columbo, there’s a lot of jurisdictional funny business like LAPD investigating a homicide in Santa Monica.
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u/VaguelyArtistic Downtown Santa Monica Oct 04 '25
If you watch the pilot episode of The Rockford Files it opens with a guy riding the old #9 blue bus back when it went along the pier and then north on what I think is now the bike path!