{"id":418,"date":"2011-02-20T20:58:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T22:22:36","slug":"the-sands-of-iwo-jima-in-hollywood-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"The Sands of Iwo Jima in Hollywood South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"420\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=420\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg?fit=275%2C425\" data-orig-size=\"275,425\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg?fit=275%2C425\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg?resize=194%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg?resize=194%2C300 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima_poster.jpg?w=275 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>For over a century, San Diego County has provided locations for hundreds of major motion picture films. Since the early 1940s a popular site has been the beaches and hills of Camp Pendleton, one hundred miles south of Hollywood. The sprawling, 125-thousand acre Marine Corps base would host the filming of several patriotic epics during World War II before scoring a huge hit at the decades end with &#8220;The Sands of Iwo Jima.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the story of the filming of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Hollywood-South.pdf\">The Sands of Iwo Jima.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D418&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century, San Diego County has provided locations for hundreds of major motion picture films. Since the early 1940s a popular site has been the beaches and hills of Camp Pendleton, one hundred miles south of Hollywood. The sprawling, 125-thousand acre Marine Corps base would host the filming of several patriotic epics during World War II before scoring a huge hit at the decades\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122; end with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Sands of Iwo Jima.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[424,421,426,879,427,425,428,429,420,423,422],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-allan-dwan","tag-camp-pendleton","tag-edmund-grainger","tag-filming","tag-forest-tucker","tag-graves-b-erskine","tag-hollywood-south","tag-howland-m-smith","tag-john-wayne","tag-republic-pictures","tag-u-s-marines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pVcZn-6K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}