First Aspect
Guru
Been there. Awesome. Nice town. Nuff said. There are 14000ft snow capped mountains above those rocks.I don’t think you are entirely wrong. A lot of 50s westerns were shot a few miles from the studios in Hollywood. A place called the Alabama Hills in Lone Pines. Very barren and desert like.
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The similar shots from Star Trek with Jim Kirk running around after aliens with green lizard heads, or God, I think,.in one of the movies, are actually closer to LA.