Talk:Los Angeles River

message: I am responding to the remarks about relocating millions of people, but I did not see an edit button for that talk. I'm new to this article and Wiki. The aritcle is very thorough and deseves kudos, but like so much other writing about the River it is mostly about the inconveniences it poses to civilization. As a result, it doesn't create an image of what kind of river this was in its natural state. There are also some minor inaccuracies. I would like to propose some changes. Chaca06 17:01, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was an amazing helicopter chase down the river in a movie in the 1980s, with James Woods I think. What about "Grease"? I recall seeing a car chase in '50s cars in some movie. The bridges are used routinely, but often for such short bits that they wouldn't be worth mentioning. -Willmcw 07:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, it was Blue Thunder, with Roy Schneider. -Will Beback 19:39, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

text: For awhile during the '70s & '80s it seemed like every cop show filmed in LA had a chase scene once a year that ended up involving the LA River. There have even been a few of scifi films that have used the LA River. If we ended listing every TV show and film that used the LA River, it would be a very, very long list. The rule should be that something should only be listed if the LA River played a significant part in the TV show or film, and it was being used as the LA River and not just as a convenient length of concrete to do dramatic chase scenes on. BlankVerse 13:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Films 

message: No mention of The Cats? If you don't know, you don't know. I'll cover it later. Alexander 007 10:17, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well? 199.120.30.198 (talk) 02:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: The Cats

message: *My first recommendation is to shorten the first paragraph to one or two sentences that accurately describe the river in a short and sweet manner consistent with most wiki articles.
*Second, would to move the rest of paragraph in another header which probably should be the first header called Geography.
*Third, would to link more of the cities, rivers, etc. Ronbo76 19:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup to remove tag 

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message: Are the left and right tributaries switched in the Infobox or is there something about rivers and direction that I don’t understand? jengod (talk) 13:31, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea, jengod.  Is "left" supposed to be the west side of the river, and "right" supposed to be the east side of the river? -- RobLa (talk) 05:43, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Left and right tributaries 

message: The info box says 47.9 miles, the lead says nearly 51 miles. Perhaps one or the other could be chosen as the length. I see the numbers are close, but not the same. The source for info box is a USGS National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data, accessed in 2011 and the original data are not visible from the links in the citation.  The source of the length in the lead is not given. It is possible that this sentence is the source: “LOS ANGELES RIVER Description of Invert and Cross Section Data    The Los Angeles River is approximately 52 miles long, with headwaters near Bell Canyon and discharging into the Pacific Ocean. ” from this California Waterboards [here https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/losangeles/board_decisions/basin_plan_amendments/technical_documents/2005-006/04_0712/Dry%20Weather/LA%20River%20Metals-Appendix%20A.pdf], dated July 2004. Anyway, it seems best to choose one source, and to explain different results from different sources for length of the river with concrete banks. - - Prairieplant (talk) 14:09, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of the river