Karate Kid and the Preservation of Architecture

One of my favorite things about Southern California is the architecture and the signage frozen in time. And having recently rewatched The Karate Kid, I like this site that revisited the film’s locations and found little had changed in 22 years. Daniel’s new apartment building (shown as “a dump” in 1983, mind you) and his high-school (the real-life version of which has since closed) look exactly the same. Must be the lack of humidity.