Universal City

But I think part of the problem that Universal ran into is that they'd hoped that their stalwart, their ever consistent, you know, since the late 60s park, Universal Studios Hollywood was going to make up for some of the gap.

Sadly, however, the Los Angeles area, like Altadena, Pasadena, around Universal City there and Hollywood, they had some pretty horrible fires last year.

And that knocked attendance for Universal down.

down pretty badly for months on end.

Right.

Universal City.

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think of the Minion.

And they want it so they can tax a brand new industry.

In Universal City, Sidney Sheinberg has waited seven years for this, since the Kojak ad.

MCA's lawyers in the Black Tower, the company's headquarters, write up what they want from the trial court.

First, Sony has to build in their $15 jammer that Ferguson refused to hear about so the studios can stop their shows from being taped.

So in 1985, the Copyright Royalty Tribunal in Washington sets it at 2% of what a store pays for each recorder and 3% of each blank tape's price.

Once the rule for records passed, the music companies refused to let any shop rent out their albums.

The studios in Burbank and Universal City do the same with movies.

Smaller tape companies let stores rent out their own movies, but customers come in for the hits, and a shop can't stay open without them.

This one involving a motorcycle.

This is over near Universal City on the 101 northbound.

The good news is we're not seeing any delays all in the green right now.

It is still early, but that slow lane is blocked at Barham Boulevard.

Thank you.

Universal City, California.

Spring 1962.

On a soundstage, a small set has been built to look like an attic.

He said to me, he said, Dearie, if you don't stop acting so hard, you will strain something.

right during rehearsal it was and mary and stella two girls i met heard him i was just all over confusion and i could feel myself blush a foot under the skin when i got home that night i bought all the souvenir postal cards of him i could find i have not signed up with any company as yet but you can bet when i do jack is going to be my leading man while i was trying to decide which company to go with one of the girls where i board a nice place and only six a week took me out to universal city and i went on in a scene right in the same picture with jack that universal city is sure a nice place you go out to hollywood on the street car and then take a jitney over coanga pass to the city a jitney my dear is an automobile you can ride in for a nickel and i have just had the most delightful times motoring about here and there and if it wasn't for the big signs on the front end people would think it was your own car and would you believe it in the restaurant i ate only two tables from king bagot's he's got the loveliest gray eyes at the city it is all white like an amusement park they have got a hospital and a big restaurant where you eat and buildings where big revolving things dry the film and miles and miles of stages for the people to act out on The scenes are put on the stages like they are in theaters.

They don't use real houses at all.

All the scenes in one set, that's what they call the rooms, are taken at one time.

New York Yankees legend Don Mattingly ties the record for scoring home runs in consecutive games.

And somewhere at a screening room in Universal City, California, executives at MCA and the Arthur Company take a look at what life was like for our ghoulish family of misfits when we last left them in 1966.

One immediate net positive in the show's favor, the return of the iconic Munsters theme song, followed immediately by that positive being taken away when they add words to the song.

We're the Munsters We're the Munsters We went to sleep many years ago And we woke up with a brand new show We're the monsters! We're the monsters!

And Paramount, they were... putting their VIPs here.

Universal City, when it opened in 1912, had everything, everything set up as a city except a hotel.

And the reason why they didn't set up a hotel is they made a deal here.

This was where everyone congregated and you had politicians making deals here.