I agree. If you want an unfortunate example of trying WAY too hard to do period, see the short lived TV series Mob City. It had just about everything individual thing going for it but, both the script and the production departments were just RUBBING YOUR NOSE in what they were doing and SCREAMING "period LA."

As far as I can recall this is the only Tarantino movie with a truly happy ending and it even had "happy ending music" over it!

FvF also was pretty effortless when it came to the period stuff. It's my guess that both films had almost no CGI. Probably just some touches of CGI to cover up practical effects or things in the distance. OUAT...IH didn't even do that. As "accurate" as it was in recreating Hollywood there are many shots of LA where they didn't try/couldn't afford to CGI out newer buildings and the like. I think it was a good call, make the close up street level stuff look right and then don't hassle the details of the vistas. Having said that realize I know a lot about LA architecture and grew up in Hollywood and Westwood (where much of the stuff with Sharon Tate at the movies was shot).

I really never expected to hear "Ninety-three, K H Jaaay..." coming out of a radio ever again!

As I said, Westwood Village, where she went to the movies, and the drive down Wilshire boulevard to get there when she picks up the hitchhiker. Is right near the house we moved into after we moved out of the funkiness of West Hollywood.

Westwood is/was (it's changed a lot) the little downtown area for UCLA. One door east of the theater she went into was one of the Hamburger Hamlet restaurants which were sprinkled around LA from the late 1940s til the last one closed last year. An upscale version of what we used to call a "coffee shop" back when that meant a full service restaurant with a big menu. We ate there as a family very often. I can also remember sitting at the counter late at night making notes on the script to the audio of Unguarded Moment and in the next chair was Neil Simon doing the same thing. We often ran into Charles Bronson and his family there too. We didn't know them, they didn't know us (though I was later in an acting class with his daughter), but he knew who dad was and so there was sometimes a wave as one family entered or exited.

When I mentioned up above that it was nice to see Rick Dalton, a mid to low level movie star, portrayed with an appropriate level of income I was talking about this sort of stuff. This was just an average restaurant, good food, clean, well run. A lot of celebrities lived pretty normal lives because there wasn't the sort of money floating around that there is now (for people who are moving up in their careers) and no one cared that much and when they did they were polite.