Chikkins.

Los Angeles is a very interesting town. Years ago, a chum from university hooked up with a fellow bear that lives in LA, and ended up settling down with him in the City of Angels. I visited them back in the late `90s, and took these pictures while we were driving around; I believe this junk-yard was located somewhere near the Muzak building (I've said it before and I'll say it again: picture how Muzak would look, and you'll get an idea of what THAT building looks like). I was pretty excited at this apparently random photo-find, but was advised that these sorts of sights are a dime a dozen - given the amount of TV and movie production in that city (duh), there are plenty of scrapyards around town that have piles of old sets in them. They mentioned driving by a pile of stuff that appeared to come from a recent Star Trek: TNG shoot. In addition to this sort of stuff, there are used clothing stores entirely comprised of old costumes, from your generic extras-outfits, to items of clothing that are labelled with the star and movie from which they came. The orange jacket, white T-shirt, and blue jeans as worn by Will Smith in MIB was on display when I was there, to be had for about $2,500USD. Yikes! And, where in Toronto your high school/university job was waiting tables, or in the sticks where it might be working on a farm, in LA the work as animators, or extras, or cartoon writers/illustrators, or, as my chum's partner did, theme-park design. He fell into this as a job just out of high school, and now travels the world creating rides. Last year, he was in Toronto as the creative director for the new Italian Job ride at Paramount; it is his voice you hear from the speakers as the ride pulls out of the loading area.