Streetscape

Fake books for the movie industry

By Kevin Roderick | January 27, 2013 8:32 PM

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Vose Street in North Hollywood is a workaday LA industrial street under the final approach path for jets landing at Bob Hope Airport. Valleywood shops and services, the Doc Johnson factory for rubber sex toys, and a mysterious driveway marked Faux Library.

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At the end of the driveway, another hidden corner of glamorous Hollywood: "Fake books for the Movie Industry."

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