Neal. Jack.

This poster is a reproduction of a picture of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac that was taken by Carolyn Cassady in San Francisco in 1952.

This is the same picture on the cover of Neal Cassady’s unfinished biography, “The First Third.”

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Deckard lived here in Blade Runner.

Ennis House is the largest of four textile-block homes Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Los Angeles. (Although originally and currently known as Ennis House, it was known as the Ennis-Brown House from 1980 until August 2005.)

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No more speed.

And all apologies to Golden Earring because this surely isn’t what they meant…

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The Amazing Spide-Man scrubber thing for the bath.

Early Sunday morning, before aisles at Target are peopled with people, Spider-Man, the web-spinning action hero, serves as an anchor for a body scrub thingy.

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Jacaranda Tree Petals.

Fallen petals from a jacaranda tree on the winding, wet sidewalk that snakes its way through Tustin’s Pine Tree Park, parallel to Bryan Avenue.

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An Eichler-esque beach house.

An Eichler-esque beach house on the boardwalk between Balboa and Newport Beach piers.

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No ifs, ands, or Utt Buildings.

Empty since 1973, the Utt Juice Co. buildings were once home to the city of Tustin, California’s largest employer. There are two buildings: a Victorian Italianate built in 1914, and a neoclassical brick building that was constructed in 1922.

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Newport Center.

Located in Newport Beach, California, in Newport Center, this building was designed by William Pereira. In addition to this building and its twin, Pereira designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco’s needle-like Transamerica building, UC San Diego’s Geisel Library, and the legged Encounter Restaurant that sits about 70 feet above the ground in the center of LAX’s Theme Building complex.

Off The Road.

Sissy Spacek played Carolyn Cassady. Her husband, Neal Cassady, was played by Nick Nolte. John Heard played Jack Kerouac.

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Lovell Beach House.

Located on Balboa Peninsula — at 1242 West Ocean Front, right off Balboa Boulevard and adjacent to Newport Elementary School and right at the edge of the boardwalk — this house was designed by R.M. Schindler in 1926.

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Hung Vuong sign.

One of Hung Vuong’s specialties is pho, a noodle soup that can include chicken or beef or other ingredients.

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Yoga works floor.

This — at Yoga Works in Costa Mesa — right before a Level 1-2 class at 8 a.m., before all the earnest yogis begin filing in and laying their mats down.