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The NASS video Los Angeles 1940s, Residential Area in color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound is a processed version of this archived footage.

Starting at about 02:18 a movie camera points backwards from a vehicle driving down a road, pointed at the car behind but also showing few buildings and mountains in the background.

However on the left there is a large, notable building of some cubically-shaped classical architectural style with a large domed roof and possibly some large sculptures of human figures. It feels like it might be a religious building or a mausoleum.

It certainly looks like it might still be around an notable as a Los Angeles landmark.

Is it possible to identify this building and by extension the name of the road being driven on in this video?

For reference, there's a little bit more about NASS in PetaPixel's Colorized Footage of San Francisco Taken Four Days Before 1906 Fire

screenshot from "Los Angeles 1940s, Residential Area in color (60fps, Remastered) w/added sound" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-xhtjOReM

detail of screenshot from "Los Angeles 1940s, Residential Area in color (60fps, Remastered) w/added sound" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-xhtjOReM

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Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation:

The Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is in Los Angeles, California. The shrine is a 75-foot-tall (23 m) structure of marble, mosaic, and sculpted figures and is the burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation. Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. and sculptor, Federico Augustino Giorgi, it was built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

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    @DavidSupportsMonica I've been to LA a few times. At first I thought it was the observatory but the observatory has a circular base and a higher dome
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented May 10, 2022 at 1:10
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    I grew up in LA, and the best I could come up with was the dome at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, also a miss. Searching by the image on Google didn't help. How did you search?
    – DavidRecallsMonica
    Commented May 10, 2022 at 2:18
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    with a replica of the Space Shuttle as well! goo.gl/maps/ADc9HVJJWKEJN4LK8 So that makes this Cahuenga Blvd? I lived in LA a while myself but I suppose didn't pay too much attention to the cemeteries, except of course for that Hollywood Forever sign on Santa Monica goo.gl/maps/Mqo7jhEVs2j8NSk59
    – uhoh
    Commented May 10, 2022 at 2:59
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    Has the dome been retiled recently? @uhoh I believe it's Maple St.
    – phoog
    Commented May 10, 2022 at 11:18
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    There was some restoration work done after the 1994 earthquake, which might account for the differences.
    – Roddy of the Frozen Peas
    Commented May 10, 2022 at 17:14

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