The one thing that stands out to me is how big all the trees have gotten in these locations. So many had saplings when the movies were shot, and now they're huge, mature trees.
Once a month I take a trip in New England checking out abandoned railroad locations like the ones in Stand By Me. I love looking at old photos of the railroads and then finding the exact location now.
I really love the house from 'The Birds' ..even the whole small town is still so beautiful & tranquil... Happy to know they preserve many of its history
That's not the original bar that inspired the bar in Cheers, it's a recreation built after the series started (possibly long after the series ended). The bar that served as the exterior of the show (the interior looks nothing like the set) was called the Bull and Finch, later renamed Cheers to capitalize on the notoriety. It is located in Beacon Hill.
@@chuckolah4525 Same! As soon as I saw the clip, I stopped the vid and felt the need to comment. Ain't bothering watching anymore. This clip alone is just bollocks.
Blood Alley with John Wayne filmed in 1955 was filmed at China Camp State Park in Marin County, California. China Camp was in real life a Chinese fishing camp on San Francisco Bay. The camp and wharf is still there. The Great Wall set, was on the ridge above the camp and lasted about 10 years before fading away.
Those apartments used in The Shining are almost unavoidable. You cant miss 'em You'll see them every time you exit Highway 36 into Boulder. Seen 'em many times
It wouldn't be so bad if they edited some of the phrases that the AI can't seem to get right. Listen to how it pronounced Star Wars R2D2. The voice itself sounded much more natural than some of the others I have heard.
I love these videos that show before and after photos of past places....(I ESPECIALLY love the ones like this, with many now considered old movies that I loved and that I grew up watching!!! Such cherished memories!!!😉💜)
@drhkleinert8241 no, actually. They thought it would be a great chance to let the boys be scared for their lives and put a real, working train behind them..... 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Great job in getting the same/similar angle as the original shot. This must be very hard to do since most don't. I really like comparing pictures over time.
1:01 -- I used to live in NYC and always thought that building to the right was the ugliest in town and hoped Stay-Pufft would knock it down. Nice to see it has improved a bit. Or at least has trees blocking the view somewhat.
0:06 anyone notice that train track is missing a cross over track when one track goes a different direction from main track meaning a train would derail in this area 😂😂😂😂
It’s fascinating to remember these places and to see what has become of them. Schindler‘s list, however, showed a photo of what it used to look like. The only one that showed the past instead of the future now. Quite eerie.
You showed the "Cheers" set, then showed the interior of another restaurant that simply used the name and includes a bar that looks somewhat like the one on the TV show (not a movie). Why didn't you show the outside of the bar they showed on exterior shots, and show what THAT looks like now? Stuff like this make me not want to trust your information.
Hun, the photo was the true Cheers bar...your correct it doesnt look like the TV show nor does it on the outside, you walk up steps not down. Ive been there
The Bird's school house is still there, at least it was a couple of years ago. It is, actually, located in a different town from where the rest of the movie was filmed. There are other homes there now, but the scene is still recognizable. One of the rooms was converted into a store where you could buy items related to the film. You could not go any further into the house. Since then it has become a private residence with a sign on the fence asking people not to bother the owners. The first time there we did not know where the house was so we went into a information center to find out. On the way in we were attacked by some small birds who must have had a nest around. We were laughing on the way in and told the people inside that we must be in the right place. They knew about the birds and laughed as well.
There's a scene from the 1971 Elaine May comedy "A New Leaf," where Walter Matthau and David Doyle are riding on horses on a trail. I believe that was in Holbrook, Long Island, New York, and that trail has been paved over.
The beige wall, where Marty Mc.Fly returned from 1885, was filmed in my home town of Port Hueneme, (Why-nee-me). Used to be Anacapa St. Where I very literally grew up. I lived in that neighborhood for eleven years.
Was it a real railway? I work on a heritage railway and they use it for films often. Some of the productions only use the real railway for interior shots (e.g. carriage and station). For exterior shots, they literally built an entire shunting yard just for the film because real railways didn't have the right angles / use permissions available etc.
The Birds house is in the town of Bodega and the water shots were taken at Bodega Bay 7 miles apart as the video said.The dock scenes were taken at the Tides Wharf on Bodega Bay. It is still there but has been yuppy-field.
Lenina Huxley : [Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from. John Spartan : Huxley, what's that supposed to mean? Lenina Huxley : Do you see any cows around here, detective?
You missed 1 movie The Stand 1994. Just so you know the school they showed near the beginning of the movie is no longer there it burned down and is now a Senior center and the house where they picked up the person that Gary Sinise played was torn down.
Fun fact.... there was a Frederick Krueger that lived on Elm Street in Wyandotte, Michigan. He had a brother, William and a sister, Amanda. His grave is at Ferndale Cemetery in Riverview, Michigan.
My 2 favorites were Bullet with Steve McQueen racing thru the streets of San Francisco & Pulp Fiction’s Jack Rabbit Slims, it was a defunct bowling alley in Glendale.
Back in the 90's i used to drive by the Home Alone house. I can understand why the new owners put up a gated fence on it since a lot of sightseers always stop by and take pictures especially during Christmas.
Nice compilation! It's amazing how much the trees have grown in the period since these films/TV shows were made. A few comments: 3:50 While there was a scene at a stoplight in downtown Phoenix, this isn't it 🙂 This scene in the movie was about 10 minutes later after Marion had crossed into California's Central Valley (the Bates Motel is supposedly just off of Highway 99). 4:28 "ER. Two-dee-two's journey began..." Might want to review your AI narration before publishing. 5:45 The Vasquez Rocks in Red Rock Canyon. The number of films and TV shows this outcropping has been in cannot be counted. Probably the most famous, it's where Captain Kirk fought the Gorn. 14:35 You could have at least mentioned the title of the TZ episode: "100 Years Over the Rim."
Let's go further back. Near by a road under a highway in Texas, leading to the highway, ends at a fense. The pavement you see on the otherside of the fence was a runway for the previous airport. That airport was in at least one movie before even I was born. The origanal terminal was a large bulding with statues and other archetecture you rarely see today.
Couple years back visited Martha’s Vineyard and took a ferry over by Edgartown and on the side of the building where you catch the ferry they had a re-creation of the 3000.00 Award to whatever man that kills the shark that killed Alex Kintner sign . I got a kick out of that. LOL
The beetlejuice hous was again rebuilt on the same spot along with other sets / frontages in East Corinth, a village in the town of Corinth, Vermont for the 2024 follow up film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
The Twilight Zone clip you are using at 14:40 is not from the 1983 movie. Its from an original episode with Cliff Robertson, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim". This is episode 59 of the series and is the 23rd episode of the second season. It originally aired on April 7, 1961,
Had no idea that any part of a new hope was filmed in Death Valley but it makes total sense because it doesn't fit with any of the Tunisia stuff you see of the sand dunes
Wasn’t the church that stands behind James Stewart in “Vertigo” also used in the Hugh Grant/Julianne Moore film “Nine Months”? I have a photo of that church from 2014
Its interesting how green it is all now, lots of trees, bushes, Palms, grass...Best of all: The building from Fright Night is real, in the movie it looks like a Matte or a model...in real it looks really weird
Could’ve been a little more informative, such as the location of the Cordeleone family home or the train tracks in stand by me, and nearly half of the other locations!! This rates 5 on a scale of 1 to 10!!
The area around the toll booth where Sonny was killed in The Godfather later became The Nassau County Coliseum. The former home of The New York Islanders.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 @ 9:07 shows the intersection of Ft Tejon Rd and Longview Rd. That intersection is now 131st St East, that becomes Longview Rd further south. The town of Longview, California is just north of this area.
Really makes me miss those years. Everything was less, yet more than we have now. Miss the old buildings, empty roads, iconic casinos...
Yrs ago i once travelled through a historic railroad tunnel in Chattanooga, Tn that was rediscovered by a railroad museum.
The one thing that stands out to me is how big all the trees have gotten in these locations. So many had saplings when the movies were shot, and now they're huge, mature trees.
Yeh I noticed that too, small bushes in movies now huge rows of trees an the views hidden coz trees in the way lol
When I was a kid, we visited Bodega Bay where The Birds was filmed. Cool little town!
😨That Movie still Haunts me to this day. 😰😱
Once a month I take a trip in New England checking out abandoned railroad locations like the ones in Stand By Me. I love looking at old photos of the railroads and then finding the exact location now.
The possibilities are endless for countless more videos like this one. Right off the top of my brain, I can think of at least 20 more.
I really love the house from 'The Birds' ..even the whole small town is still so beautiful & tranquil... Happy to know they preserve many of its history
That's not the original bar that inspired the bar in Cheers, it's a recreation built after the series started (possibly long after the series ended). The bar that served as the exterior of the show (the interior looks nothing like the set) was called the Bull and Finch, later renamed Cheers to capitalize on the notoriety. It is located in Beacon Hill.
I was gonna say that! Lol
@@chuckolah4525 Same! As soon as I saw the clip, I stopped the vid and felt the need to comment.
Ain't bothering watching anymore. This clip alone is just bollocks.
It's unreal how places change over the years and yet stay the same.
I also find it so intriguing and exciting looking & comparing the old pics with their present locations
Trees seem to be taking over in a lot of the locations. It’s surprising how much difference they can make to the look and feel of a place.
Haha except L.A. (the T2 scene) 🌴 Actually looked like less 🌵 omg those poor beautiful f*ckers ☀️
Blood Alley with John Wayne filmed in 1955 was filmed at China Camp State Park in Marin County, California. China Camp was in real life a Chinese fishing camp on San Francisco Bay. The camp and wharf is still there. The Great Wall set, was on the ridge above the camp and lasted about 10 years before fading away.
Those apartments used in The Shining are almost unavoidable.
You cant miss 'em
You'll see them every time you exit Highway 36 into Boulder. Seen 'em many times
Great views, I appreciate the 'before' 'after' then side by side 👍👍👍
Great offering. Ignore the complaints from do nothings.
Great seeing all the film locations, but I really do hate AI narration. It's just lazy.
But inexpensive...
It wouldn't be so bad if they edited some of the phrases that the AI can't seem to get right. Listen to how it pronounced Star Wars R2D2. The voice itself sounded much more natural than some of the others I have heard.
Its jarring. I hate it as well
First blood is a masterpiece ever since 1982.
It's iconic how iconic these iconic locations are. Iconic! 😄
You noticed that too .... other than THAT, pretty good video.
Now I have to look up the definition of iconic! 😂
LOL I laughed at that too. Would have made a great drinking game :)
Please stop putting thumbnails over the last pictures of the video.
I love these videos that show before and after photos of past places....(I ESPECIALLY love the ones like this, with many now considered old movies that I loved and that I grew up watching!!! Such cherished memories!!!😉💜)
The railroad line they used in Stand by Me was already abandoned when they shot the film. It has since been converted into a rail-to-trail bike path.
What about the trestle? I immediately thought of that iconic scene!
And of course it was a Special Effect, in real the boys hadnt a train behind them.
@drhkleinert8241 no, actually. They thought it would be a great chance to let the boys be scared for their lives and put a real, working train behind them..... 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
A dirty little secret is that rails to trails are often land banked for the possibility of resurgence of rail.
Awesome comparisons. Job well done sir. Thank you for sharing.
Great job in getting the same/similar angle as the original shot. This must be very hard to do since most don't. I really like comparing pictures over time.
Probably "borrowed" the images from others that actually go to the locarions.
1:01 -- I used to live in NYC and always thought that building to the right was the ugliest in town and hoped Stay-Pufft would knock it down. Nice to see it has improved a bit. Or at least has trees blocking the view somewhat.
0:06 anyone notice that train track is missing a cross over track when one track goes a different direction from main track meaning a train would derail in this area 😂😂😂😂
yeah, very noticeable in the lack of visible track. big oopsie
Good to see more trees 🌳 have grown
These on-location venues and vignettes are so much more interesting than any CGI rendering could ever achieve.
Good for you for having an incredible variety of movies.
I really enjoyed this!
It’s fascinating to remember these places and to see what has become of them. Schindler‘s list, however, showed a photo of what it used to look like. The only one that showed the past instead of the future now. Quite eerie.
I loved all the movies you showed, the best....💜💜💜💜
You showed the "Cheers" set, then showed the interior of another restaurant that simply used the name and includes a bar that looks somewhat like the one on the TV show (not a movie). Why didn't you show the outside of the bar they showed on exterior shots, and show what THAT looks like now? Stuff like this make me not want to trust your information.
I stopped watching at one minute 51 seconds
Hun, the photo was the true Cheers bar...your correct it doesnt look like the TV show nor does it on the outside, you walk up steps not down. Ive been there
Inspired
It said that was the bar that inspired Cheers, not that it was Cheers in the TV series.
@@StephenPickells-bi2ii🤡
I live in Dallas and that city hall building is right across from the big public library in downtown.
The Bird's school house is still there, at least it was a couple of years ago. It is, actually, located in a different town from where the rest of the movie was filmed. There are other homes there now, but the scene is still recognizable. One of the rooms was converted into a store where you could buy items related to the film. You could not go any further into the house. Since then it has become a private residence with a sign on the fence asking people not to bother the owners. The first time there we did not know where the house was so we went into a information center to find out. On the way in we were attacked by some small birds who must have had a nest around. We were laughing on the way in and told the people inside that we must be in the right place. They knew about the birds and laughed as well.
Quick and to the point,great.
Well, I've always believed that our Boston City Hall was the ugliest in the country, but it seems Dallas can give us a run for the money!!
Correction:
In that black & white photo from the TWILIGHT ZONE,is from 1963, not 1983.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's my favourite TZ episode.
The Twilight Zone movie image was from the TV show, I believe.
correct
Yes, I believe you are correct.
This video is so interesting, Thank You.
The background jazz is awesome.
There's a scene from the 1971 Elaine May comedy "A New Leaf," where Walter Matthau and David Doyle are riding on horses on a trail. I believe that was in Holbrook, Long Island, New York, and that trail has been paved over.
I'd heard, as an Oregon resident, that ALL of *"Stand By Me"* was filmed in Oregon, even the railroad crossing with the boys running over the ravine.
Great video. Really brought back some memories
The beige wall, where Marty Mc.Fly returned from 1885, was filmed in my home town of Port Hueneme, (Why-nee-me). Used to be Anacapa St. Where I very literally grew up. I lived in that neighborhood for eleven years.
The Flintstones scene was filmed at Vasquez Rocks, a popular filming location seen in just about everything.
Notably, two Star Trek episodes: Arena and Shore Leave.
Ever wonder why all of the planets that the Enterprise visited all look like Earth and they all spoke English?🤔🤭
Bill and Ted as well?
I haven't researched it, but Blazing Saddles looks like Vasquez Rocks, too
Highly interesting. Lot of research goes into a video like this. Well done. 👍
Except when research did not go into it such as not knowing the location of the Cordeleone family home or the train tracks in stand by me!!
Cordeleone?
One I thought they would cover is the lake in Dirty Dancig. It's gone.
Wow! I'm going to go look that up! 👍
Seeing a railway ripped up and destroyed is a historical tragedy
Was it a real railway? I work on a heritage railway and they use it for films often. Some of the productions only use the real railway for interior shots (e.g. carriage and station). For exterior shots, they literally built an entire shunting yard just for the film because real railways didn't have the right angles / use permissions available etc.
good video , i enjoy watching these types of vids
Loved this video
Cars look great back then
The Birds house is in the town of Bodega and the water shots were taken at Bodega Bay 7 miles apart as the video said.The dock scenes were taken at the Tides Wharf on Bodega Bay. It is still there but has been yuppy-field.
Oops! The very last one of The Twilight Zone was filmed in 1961 not 1983.
Haaaa...Port Hueneme, Ca. Back to the Future done on the Seabee base
Lenina Huxley : [Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from.
John Spartan : Huxley, what's that supposed to mean?
Lenina Huxley : Do you see any cows around here, detective?
That Twight Zone episode was made in 1961, not 1983 (Cliff Robertson).
14:42 This was an original Twilight Zone episode called A Hundred Yards Over the Rim, season 2, episode 23, it aired April 7, 1961.
@ 13:33...It was actually Victorville and Apple Valley California!!
The ORIGINAL "Cheers" is the bull and finch pub and restaurants
I was gonna comment "what about Pee-wee Herman" just as a joke but OMG you actually included that crap
"Crap"? Aw.
You missed 1 movie The Stand 1994. Just so you know the school they showed near the beginning of the movie is no longer there it burned down and is now a Senior center and the house where they picked up the person that Gary Sinise played was torn down.
Interesting. Although the video misses naming where some of these places are located.
Maybe, but they sure are "iconic" 😄
Ghost busters, if only John Belushi was still around when they were filming Ghostbusters. He would have been iconic.
Maybe he was....
Bravo.....Well done!
Fun fact.... there was a Frederick Krueger that lived on Elm Street in Wyandotte, Michigan. He had a brother, William and a sister, Amanda. His grave is at Ferndale Cemetery in Riverview, Michigan.
My 2 favorites were Bullet with Steve McQueen racing thru the streets of San Francisco & Pulp Fiction’s Jack Rabbit Slims, it was a defunct bowling alley in Glendale.
Back in the 90's i used to drive by the Home Alone house. I can understand why the new owners put up a gated fence on it since a lot of sightseers always stop by and take pictures especially during Christmas.
Nice compilation! It's amazing how much the trees have grown in the period since these films/TV shows were made.
A few comments:
3:50 While there was a scene at a stoplight in downtown Phoenix, this isn't it 🙂 This scene in the movie was about 10 minutes later after Marion had crossed into California's Central Valley (the Bates Motel is supposedly just off of Highway 99).
4:28 "ER. Two-dee-two's journey began..." Might want to review your AI narration before publishing.
5:45 The Vasquez Rocks in Red Rock Canyon. The number of films and TV shows this outcropping has been in cannot be counted. Probably the most famous, it's where Captain Kirk fought the Gorn.
14:35 You could have at least mentioned the title of the TZ episode: "100 Years Over the Rim."
Stand by me. My favorite
I was hoping to see the vacant intersection near Mobeetie, TX. used in Castaway.
Interesting!
The last two pics of "Twilight Zone" is not from the 1983 movie, but from the old TV series of the 60s.
Let's go further back. Near by a road under a highway in Texas, leading to the highway, ends at a fense. The pavement you see on the otherside of the fence was a runway for the previous airport. That airport was in at least one movie before even I was born. The origanal terminal was a large bulding with statues and other archetecture you rarely see today.
Couple years back visited Martha’s Vineyard and took a ferry over by Edgartown and on the side of the building where you catch the ferry they had a re-creation of the 3000.00 Award to whatever man that kills the shark that killed Alex Kintner sign . I got a kick out of that. LOL
Here on YT are "Jaws-Movie Locations" and its crazy how less changed there in over 50 yrs
The beetlejuice hous was again rebuilt on the same spot along with other sets / frontages in East Corinth, a village in the town of Corinth, Vermont for the 2024 follow up film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
The Twilight Zone clip you are using at 14:40 is not from the 1983 movie. Its from an original episode with Cliff Robertson, "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim". This is episode 59 of the series and is the 23rd episode of the second season. It originally aired on April 7, 1961,
I heard that alot of the interior shots for Home Alone were done in a gymnasium. Is that correct? What traffic light in Psycho?
Great video.
Could of did with out the background music.
Just a suggestion for your future videos.
2D2..? Lol , ive heard of R2D2
Had no idea that any part of a new hope was filmed in Death Valley but it makes total sense because it doesn't fit with any of the Tunisia stuff you see of the sand dunes
Havenhurst and plummer is the san fernando valley
Great movie picks to cover, the movie Bullet could use 20 more minutes.....
Most interesting part is how movies moved away from on location filming
Wasn’t the church that stands behind James Stewart in “Vertigo” also used in the Hugh Grant/Julianne Moore film “Nine Months”? I have a photo of that church from 2014
Way cool!
Its interesting how green it is all now, lots of trees, bushes, Palms, grass...Best of all: The building from Fright Night is real, in the movie it looks like a Matte or a model...in real it looks really weird
We tried to see berry college that was in sweet home Alabama but it was closed because of Covid my favorites are stand by me and home alone
The Sad hill Cemetery has been restored, is in Santo Domingo De Silos, Spain.
th-cam.com/video/sdNZXusymuU/w-d-xo.html
Cool
how about the movie debby does dallas?
That was not from The Twilight Zone movie, but an old tv episode called, “100 Years Over the Rim”
Could’ve been a little more informative, such as the location of the Cordeleone family home or the train tracks in stand by me, and nearly half of the other locations!! This rates 5 on a scale of 1 to 10!!
The Corelone home is on Staten Island.
The family name is Corleone
So in the past they built actual structures instead of CGI yet the movies were cheaper to make even you add inflation?
The area around the toll booth where Sonny was killed in The Godfather later became The Nassau County Coliseum. The former home of The New York Islanders.
Just let me see now how about the location filem The Fog radio station and The Ring light house
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 @ 9:07 shows the intersection of Ft Tejon Rd and Longview Rd. That intersection is now 131st St East, that becomes Longview Rd further south. The town of Longview, California is just north of this area.
Would like to see the spots where X-MEN WOLVERINE was filmed and The Star Trek movies.
Would've like to see the sandlot site
At 2:09 the black 1978 Buick Skyhawks Turbo is replaced by a tubo Toyota. Bet the Sam guy still lives there. Both are black cars.
Pee Wee's bedroom is on the 2nd floor, he has to use a firepole to go downstairs but his house is only 1 story. That kinda bugs me.
Surprised how we see a lot more vegetation, trees and green in today's pics, surprising when everyone is telling us we are going drier and drier.
The train tracks were props in Stand By Me
Robot voiceovers = insta quit