Here’s a few minutes of grooving black and white footage shot from the rear of a car in Burbank, California in the late 1950s. We are in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles, a dead-ass Valley strip near Warner Brothers filled with places called ‘The Tick Tock Lounge’, ‘The Kings Arms Steakhouse’ and an odd used clothing store called ‘Put-N-Take’ featuring ‘Stars and Socialites Apparel.’ The accompanying music choice is excellent– D.J Mad Mike’s monster hit “Slappin’ Rods and Leaky Oil” by the Savoys, 1959. By the way the date this was shot has been arrived at (not by me) by identifying a Corvair at 1:22. Though technically first sold in 1960, the Corvair’s were on the market the previous fall. Of course being in Los Angeles we have no way of knowing what the hell season we’re in but it’s as good a guess as any…