On the way back to Los Angeles after the game, the plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude and crashed on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The lyrics are mostly just a recitation of Los Angeles-area streetnames: Doheny, Cahuenga, La Brea, La Jolla, Sequoia, Alvarado, Santa Monica, Beverly, and Vine (Figueroa is also a Los Angeles street).
Around 1946, he moved to Los Angeles where, by the early 1960s, he had set up home on Beverly Boulevard.
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