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  Near The Airport

  I love when businesses near an airport tip their hat to aviation in some way. The all-timer is the Air Line Diner sign at the Jackson Hole a few minutes from LaGuardia (better known as the Goodfellas diner!)… I also love Jet Stream Liquors near Burbank Airport in North Hollywood. If you know of others,…

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  The Library

  I recently posted about how Columbia University’s wood-paneled lecture hall is THE go-to lecture hall for filming locations; for libraries, it’s the Brooklyn Historical Society. As a location scout, you walk in and just go: “OK. We’re done.”

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  Bribe

  I was scouting a liquor store once, and as I was leaving the owner said, “I hope you decide to film here,” and shook my hand with a sly wink – and slipped me one of those tiny bottles of Jack Daniels. I sometimes wonder if this was smallest attempted bribe in Hollywood history.

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  Alimony Road

  “It’s Friday night and I’m driving down Alimony Road” sounds like the start to a bad country song…and is also what I’m literally doing right now.

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