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Today’s question:
QUESTION: If you could visit the filming location or one TV show or movie, which one would you visit? Also, have you ever been to a filming location (either before, during or after filming?
Talk about it….
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Does Bodega Bay count? I’ve been there many times, and The Birds was filmed there. I’ve probably been to many filming locations just because I’m from San Francisco, and so many movies and TV shows have been filmed there. When I was a teenager, we used to hang out at Mel’s Drive In on South Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. That’s the Mel’s they used in American Graffiti. When I was a little kid, my uncle’s barber shop was used in a TV show cop show.
If I could visit a filming location, I’d like to see the railroad museum, where they use the trains when filming western movies.
Wasn’t Mel Drive in also in ‘Guess who is coming to dinner”?
Dawg, your wish has come true.
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That’s so cool, now I know where I will be going on my next vacation.
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I’d like to visit the island where Blue Lagoon was filmed named Nanuya Levu. It’s part of Fiji and privately owned.
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I used to live in SF and have visited the exact locations of many TV and movies – The Streets of San Francisco, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Mrs. Doubtfire, etc.
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Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita…maybe I’ll visit on my next road trip to SoCal. Dozen of movies were filmed there, notably for me, “Motel Hell” (1980) and “The Devil’s Rejects” (2005).
In high school (I went to YV), we went to football camp in Tomales Bay and stayed in the Tomales Bay High School Gym (luxurious!). The high school was across the street from a home where some of the original “Scream” movie was filmed (there’s a long shot of it at the very end of the movie). Much of that movie was filmed in the North Bay in Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Glen Ellen, and Tomales.
Guess who is coming to dinner had many scenes from San Francisco, and of course the car chase with Steve McQueen in Bullit, still one of the best movie car chases. Dustin Hoffman driving on the Bay Bridge in ” The Graduate”.
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One of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies, Vertigo, was also filmed in San Francisco. And of course, there’s Dirty Harry.
Would like to visit some movie location(s) that has a Castle theme, … textured walls, furniture, decor, fabrics, etc.
More into the stagecraft of old world and gothic look in movies. Harry Potter kind of thing.
We did visit the Mrs. Doubtfire house that relatives out of town wanted to see.
I was in Mo’orea when they were filming Bounty in the early 80’s Couldn’t get a rental car or a scuba tank filled. They took over the whole island.
I would like to visit where the Lars Homestead was filmed in Star Wars A New Hope
That would be quite a trek. On the other hand we are pretty close to where Endor and Jabba’s sail barge were filmed.
Yes, went to Manawaiopuna Falls which is the waterfall from Jurassic Park. It was AMAZING and a bucket list item for me. Only can access by helicopter.
I was in S.F. and watched them Filming Nash Bridges in the 90’s…..The Yellow Cuda Convertible was the Highlight for me…
Being a SF Native, I’m familiar with most locations the Clint Eastwood movies were shot in. I delivered food-service products to the Happy Donuts on 3rd street in addition to many downtown eateries in the 70’s. Never had the opportunity to hang out and watch filming though.
Would like to check out Superior, Az; Globe etc. And other close towns that were favorites for films like U-Turn.
When I was a teen I dated the son of a Hollywood producer. We went to Universal studios one summer and saw the filming of:
Batman and Robin., Bewitched, I dream of Jeanniw and the Monkees.
Visited the Alfred Hitchcock Psycho house and the set of Leave it to Beaver.
A Trip I will never forget!
The filming of Streets of San Francisco was always fun to watch, as I had a crush on Michael Douglas 😉 Bewitched. I dream of Jeannie and The Monkees. Visited the old Psycho house and leave it to Beaver home. A trip I will never forget!
These are the places I have been where movies were filmed. Carmel and Montery Clint Eastwood’s movie “Play Misty for me”, still a good movie, the original “Fatat Attraction”. Having lived in Manhattan for 4 years, certainly are familiar with many areas where movies were filmed. Woody Allen’s “Manhattan, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, and many others. I lived in Westport Ct for 2 years and the movie David and Lisa was filmed there, and “The Swimmer” with Burt Lancaster was filmed partly in Westport and Fairfiled county. Many Danish movie’s were filmed in Copenhagen, even some that were not Danish, such as “Smilla”s sense of Snow, it has some beautiful pictures of Copenhagen. Exodus and “Cast a Giant Shadow”, were filmed in Israel and I recognized some of the scenes.
The restaurant in Danville where the Robin Williams comedy movie was shot, and all over Bodega Bay
Recently watching The Matrix Resurrections I was surprised to see the street my office is on in the final chase / combat scene.
As a kid I remember visiting the Ponderosa Ranch that Bonanza was filmed on and being aware that all of the adults had a sort of reverence for the place (great show, I just hadn’t seen it yet).
Many years ago I was in the Pleasant Hill library and spotted a movie, “Prayers for Bobby.” In seemed interesting and so I checked it out, came home and popped it into the DVD player. I was surprised that the first scene, set in someone’s back yard, said “Walnut Creek, California.” I thought that was interesting, a movie set in Walnut Creek. I then became confused as the next scene was the family at the Walnut Creek train station. It did not look at all like Walnut Creek. I continued to be confused as the film followed characters around town but nothing seemed to match my understanding of Walnut Creek. It turned out that the film was based on a Walnut Creek family but filmed in Detroit. I learned that Detroit is popular for filming as there are many empty building and streets available for rent at low cost.
Bobby was the close to same age as one of my relatives. I took a look at her Las Lomas High School yearbooks and Bobby was there meaning the book, and film were based in local city but not filmed here…
Bobby Griffith is not forgotten.
-Ponderosa Ranch, Incline Village, Nevada.
-Geisel Library, San Diego, California – seen in the opening credits of the 1980s TV show “Simon & Simon.
-Flatiron Building, San Francisco, California – seen in the opening credits of the 1980s TV show “Crazy Like A Fox.”
-Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California – aka St. Gregory Hotel from the 1980s TV show “Arthur Hailey’s Hotel.”
-Southfork Ranch, Parker, Texas.
-Crystalaire Place, Granada Hills, California, aka “Seaview Circle, Knots Landing, California.”
-Miravalle, Spring Mountain Vineyard, St. Helena, California aka “Falcon Crest.”
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I also spent much time on the sets of many music videos filmed throughout Los Angeles.
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