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As it had on every other evening since July 4, 1974, CBS broadcast its nightly one-minute-long (natch) episode of "Bicentennial Minutes" in primetime. May 19's episode happened to feature British-born songwriter and composer Jule Styne as the narrator, describing an event in the American Revolution that occurred exactly 200 years before, on May 19, 1776. That episode is not available, but here's May 7's "Bicentennial Minute," featuring director Otto Preminger: https://youtu.be/u1HwX6TdHbk

By the end of the month, he would be on the cover of Time magazine. On the night of May 19th, Atlantans were happily paying $9.50 to see Paul and Wings in concert as part of the band's multi-city, blockbuster tour. This tour marked the first time in a decade that Paul had performed live on tour in North America. Of course the last time, in 1966, he had still been a Beatle.

2700 Vermont Avenue, not far from USC, to be precise.

The generic establishing shots in the "ABP" sequence, until the very end of the montage, were clearly filmed in NYC. But when the camera pans to the ABP bar exterior, it's the building above. Probably because it was a lot easier for the L.A. crew to "dress" a local building in ABP signage for a day than all flying to New York and doing it there.

https://youtu.be/VS3Acv-ymLI

You can see how the montage switches over just before the "Truck Lettering" signage (itself possibly painted for the shoot, to make it more generic), with that "Truck Lettering" building's address number, 2678, visible.

On the Sunset Strip in L.A.

Between competitions on "Battle of the Network Stars V," which was broadcast in November 1978.

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A photo that kind of exemplifies a certain kind of Northern California cool, or cosmopolitanism, of the early 1970s: a British car, with the Northpoint shopping center in the background, with the Akron and Mayfair stores, where you could buy then-trendy apartment accouterments and foodstuffs.

This was at a Washington Senators game, during Charles's first visit to the US.