Instagram - AdamTheWooATW Would have recreated the volleyball scene but by doing so might have ....took my breath away . Yesterday's video th-cam.com/video/cm2CcESXFdw/w-d-xo.html
LOL Playing with the BOYS Kenny Loggins Top Gun! Bodies working overtime! Someone is on your mind! Moving in slow motion it feels so good. th-cam.com/video/ABavfazPTjo/w-d-xo.html
I distinctly remember taking my youngest son to see this movie when he was 17. The next few weeks it was obvious he wanted to be a Naval Aviator because every other word was Navy this or Navy that and a few dozen Navy posters showing up on his bedroom walls. Well, when he graduated the following year off to the Navy he went. He passed all the exams and was admitted to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island when he got his bars from there he was off to Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida where he received further training on both the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet and carrier landings and takeoffs and somewhere during all of that he was also in the Naval Aviation Cadet (NavCad) Program due to the shortage in pilots back then he was finally allowed to attend college for his courses to satisfy his commision in 1994 and got his degree in 1996. I asked him one time if it was anything like the movie. He looked me right in the eye and said "Dad it sucks. The Navy won't let you do anything if you do anything shown in that movie they pull your wings and kick you out." I laughed for hours over that, myself I spend 24 years in the Army, 1946-1948 American Occupation forces Germany, Warrant Officer, and helicopter training 1949-1951, Korea, 1951-1953, 1954-1956. Vietnam 1960-1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968 then back stateside until given my walking papers in 1970, retired as a Warrant Officer 4 (W-4).
Brings back so many memories of skipping class during my Junior year in High School to go see Top Gun!!!!!I was obsessed with this movie and was going to enlist in the Navy my senior year but wound up going in the Army 11 BRAVO Airborne at Ft Benning GA.I respect you Adam for taking us all on these memorable journeys back to these classic times in cinematic history.Thank you sir and it's greatly appreciated!!!!.Now it's on to the next video here on the channel...Join.... me....SHALL YOU?
I was there the day they shot the scene on the motorcycle. I have photos. I was recently out of bootcamp and stationed there in school as an enlisted sailor on what had been the Naval Training Center. I was probably coming back from lunch or something, because I would pass that way returning from lunch. They had about three different cycles they used and they were on a small trailer. They also later shot that scene in her car after Goose's death on the same place a few days later. In both scenes was hard to see the actors. The area was taped off to restrict access. Someone told me it was Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. I had walked down that hallway many times. I remember thinking how dull I thought the base was, and I was surprised they would use it for a scene. The Hollywood movie magic, though, made that hallway look incredible. I probably sat there and watched them do about 3 or 4 takes of the scene before moving on because as anyone knows who has watched movies being made, it's intensely slow and boring.
I was in the Marine Corps 1st Recon in 1986, my wife, daughter, and I lived blocks away. We reenacted the motorcycle kissing scene on my bike at the marina after watching the movie. Oceanside was the laid back hippie area back then, there were all night guitar jam sessions on the beach by campfire fueled with LSD and weed. Really sad to see it bulldozed and turned into just another development. All the charm is gone, as is my wife. Such is life. Thanks for the tour.
My friend and I grew up on this film when we were kids, we are now both 45 and still as thick as thief’s. Even now we still quote top gun phrases to each other mid conversation like it’s an in joke. Reminds us of our great friendship and growing up together..... hope you see this comment Jimmy (aka Goose) !
Thanks for showing these filming locations. Glad they haven’t torn down the house from the movie. I loved that movie and one of my favorite soundtracks! One of the great movies of the 1980s. 👍
This was such an iconic 80's movie! I loved the jets flying over when you were filming. Great job on all this! I remember I had a Top Gun Nintendo game that I used to think was so realistic!
Adam, A very welcome blast from the past !!! Im from Canada was windsurfing at the time In Buxton North Carolina thats where i saw TOP GUN I will never forget that trip. My GF broke up with me two months before and when i got back I started see another girl who would later become my wife you just never know. The caper is now I'm divorced, retired, no debt and life is GOOD !!! Thank the Lord and pass the ammunition. :)
WOW, you did it again, Adam. This was terrific. TY for doing your homework, the legwork, and the commentary in order to match certain iconic scenes with their locations. NOBODY does this better than you, Adam...👍✔🤗
I grew up in San Diego. The first time I saw Top Gun was at a small movie theater just north of the navy airfield where the Real Top Gun pilots trained. It was fun to hear some of them talking about the filming of the movie.
This movie was released 36 years ago , I am watching this video today on the 20 June 2022 in India I was astonished with how still in the United States of America and memories of Top Gun is still alive ? It came to India the same year. I saw the film I was probably 14 years old now I am 50 years old and so on … well the making and the star cast was amazing back then and is amazing now I still have to go and watch the sequel.. I don’t know that the sequel will be remembered for 36 years..but the original 1986 Top Gun will never ever die … it will always be in the hearts and mind of people across the globe and generations will talk about it I am sure they are talking about it even now ..
Yay, another filming location video! As a kid, my parents took me to a state-of-the-art shop to see a new fangled device called a laserdisc player. They discussed a purchase as I browsed the titles. Top Gun is the only one I remember vividly!
MY WIFE AND I WENT ON A CRUISE (NO PUN INTENDED) AND WE DOCKED RIGHT NEXT TO THE USS MIDWAY, AND WE WALKED AROUND THE STREETS OF SAN DIEGO. I JUST HAPPENED TO COME UPON THIS PLACE. WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THERE. I WALKED IN AND BOUGHT A T-SHIRT. I'M GLAD I GOT TO VISIT.
OH MY GOSH. Adam, I SERIOUSLY just watched Top Gun last night and I was just thinking about the bar they shot the piano scene in. I’ve been in the past. The last time I went they were talking about how they survived the fire. What are the chances! Great timing. Always love your film location shoots!
Thanks so.much for presenting the film locations of TOP GUN 1. I enjoyed it very much. It was in the beginning of my twenties when I watched the movie in a movie theatre of my hometown. And now 36 years and two cities later in Berlin in Germany I was able to watch Top Gun II. I have not been to California for a long time. Time to return in the near future. My very best wishes. ☘️🙋♀️🌞
I went to that bar when we pulled back into San Diego I was on the USS Nimitz. My co workers were telling me how good the beer was. I said beer is beer. I don’t know if it had to do with being out to sea so long or what but the beer there was amazing! Still the best bud-light I’ve been had to this day.
Shaking my head and grinning @ Adam's rendition 😄😄😄😄 Very cool vlog! *OMG.. I was in jr high, nudging my sister during that "awkward" kissing scene because my parents took us! 🙈 We were so embarrassed, lol!
Adam, your always fun and interesting to watch. You go to some great places and share memories etc. However, every now and again you pull one out the bag that is quite mind blowing. I am sure different age groups of your channel will find different vlogs more appealing for their own reasons, but for me 1986 was my middle teens, and this film was huge. Just seeing that little blue house brought back so may memories. Fantastic vlog, I know have that song in my head, and I am now going to have to watch the movie again. have a great day Mr Woo.
Chris the Shrinerdawg and there’s nobody else lining up those impossible screen shots to actual locations. Sometimes I wonder how the hell he finds the most difficult to imagine locations based off the grainiest screen shots
If you’re like me, and you’re a die hard Top Gun fan you would see how cool this is! I think it’s still cool after it looking broken down and ugly, it is still cool. It’s history and I think it’s so cool! I’ve loved Top Gun since I was 4 and that has been awhile! 💗
I came back from my second year in a row from a trip to MCAS Miramar. Since the marines moved in and TOPGUN moved to NAS Fallon, Fightertown USA has been long gone, and it's just not the same anymore.
OMG!!! At 10:48 you can see my ship. The mighty U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 "Top Gun of the Pacific Fleet". I served on her from 89-93. Some of the scenes from Top Gun were filmed aboard Ranger.
One thing you should have mentioned is that Liberty station AKA “NTC park” has only been called that since the mid nineties. That entire area was the Naval training center for the entire western Fleet of the U.S. Navy for nearly 80 years. Nearly every sailor went through their initial training there, until the base was moved to Coronado in the early nineties, and the city of San Diego purchased the land and accompanying buildings and turned it into a gorgeous park.
They filmed the locker room scenes inside the old original 1925 Mission Beach Plunge. I had an office in there and the crew used the side access (through my office) to get in and out of the room they converted to a locker room. I got to hang out in back of the lockers and a side room while they filmed. I upset Tom Cruise's emoting and was told shortly after I wasn't needed in there, BUT pages from a scrap book I was keeping about the Mission Beach roller coaster restoration (that was taking place at the time) was featured prominently on the bulletin board on the wall, clearly seen in the movie! Much more to the story, and it's one of my favorites.
I just came upon this. I am a native San Diegian but in 1986 I was in the Philippines with my Navy husband. I got to see this with a bunch of Navy airmen from Cubi NAB. It was quite the experience. Nice work Adam. 😎
I love Top Gun! I started singing “Take My Breath Away” too right as I saw this. :-) I literally gasped a few days ago when I saw Tom Cruise in the flight suit doing a promo for “Maverick!” Can’t wait! Another great movie location video from you Adam, love it! :-)
I didn't know what top gun until about a year ago when my friend showed me. Didn't think much of a 80s movie but boy was a wrong. Absolutely best comedy
I love this!!! I've seen Top Gun so many times because it is my Mom's favorite movie of all time... Great video but you missed one key location, the volleyball scene!
Man, when you see how this area has developed, it makes me realise how cosy and comfortable in the eighties we all were, it's all soulless pop-up hotels and estates with no character now. How lucky we were to be alive in this time.
My uncle lived there in 86 and he remembers when they shot the movie and he was shocked at how muched had changed in that area when he returned to the US. It was like the magic had completely gone and he just felt depressed walking through the neighbourhood 4 years ago.
Great movie location tour, Adam. Nobody has covered Top Gun like you have! I'd love to see more movie location vlogs like this, and less of the theme park vids, but that's just me. Thanks again Adam!!!! :-p
First time we saw Top Gun was at the Loma on Rosecrans in Point Loma. The theater was full of Swabies from the Naval Tng Center and Jarheads from the MCRD. After the movie, we drove around some of the San Diego locations in the movie.
@@TheDailyWoo Geez this song has become a real earworm for me today! I've been watching an Elvis movie marathon in honor of The King's bday & not even the songs from Blue Hawaii have been able to knock Berlin out of my head! 😂
I was skeptical that any interior scenes were filmed at that house. I figured they would have been shot on the studio lot, in a recreated setting. I also thought the cozy lattice-walled enclave with the wicker furniture was filmed elsewhere, not believing there was enough space around the house for that setting. Thanks for pointing out some details which cleared things up.
Other than being an obvious fan of Top Gun...a few years back I was attending a 4th of July event in the south OC and the band playing was Berlin. I was crossing the crowd to reach my friends who reserved a spot to watch the fireworks...when all of a sudden that song (Take My Breath Away) started playing. She got on a roadie’s shoulder and walked the crowd. I looked up and she was singing those lyrics, looking down right in front of me! Surreal and a memory keeper to say the least!!
I was in the Navy assigned to VF-1 The Wolfpack about 4 years after the movie was made. My squadron is the one they used to make the movie with. A squadron mate of mine and myself spent about a year off and on hunting down locations from the movie in 1991. Because we were in the Navy and worked in the hanger everyday where a lot of the movie was shot we had access to almost every location that was used in the movie. No one at that time was looking for these locations and there were no internet forums to help find these places. We did have one thing going for us though and it was the fact that a lot of guys we were stationed with had been around when the movie was made and they helped us locate a bunch of locations. The famous bathroom scene was filmed on the Navy Recruit base. When I was in boot camp I, was assigned the job of cleaning the bathrooms in the evening after hours at the headquarters building. That's were I found the women's bathroom which is were the bathroom scene was filmed and that started my curiosity to find the rest of the places later on once I was stationed at Miramar. I think we found every single location of importance used. The volleyball court was in front on my barracks so I walked across that almost everyday LOL. I have a photo album that has all of the locations as they were in 1991.
Another awesome video 👍🏼 about Charlie’s house it makes me angry that everything is so over developed that they ruined that area they should’ve not ruined that area and demolished the surrounding bungalows it also makes me very sad that this society doesn’t value anything classic/historic because we loose out on so much beauty because people just don’t care anymore. 😢
You'll really ROLL your eyes if you see what they did with the cottage. Well, in all fairness it's good and bad. First they MOVED it from that location to down the street a bit to accommodate for said hotels. But they remodeled nicely and now it's a PIE shop! LOL, and there's a replica of Maverick's motorcycle parked in front which is always inundated with tourists. Da da da da daah da daahh. hahahahaha
@@markirons3838 I know and I am upset, they aught to have refurbished it to exactly what it was like in the movie… It’s sad and aggravating all at once!
LMAO...i keep getting the vision of this grown man walking around the BBQ place humming that song filming everything.DUH DUH DUH DUH DHUUUU DUH DUH DUH ......
@@chriswells9859 not so when someone like me who has family who is military and works for the government furthermore I happen to hold information on things not even you or anyone else knows
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Would have recreated the volleyball scene but by doing so might have ....took my breath away .
Yesterday's video th-cam.com/video/cm2CcESXFdw/w-d-xo.html
LOL Playing with the BOYS Kenny Loggins Top Gun! Bodies working overtime! Someone is on your mind! Moving in slow motion it feels so good. th-cam.com/video/ABavfazPTjo/w-d-xo.html
Grest job sir,love this
TheDailyWoo - You’d have to get all lubed up to recreate the volleyball shots properly. I doubt that’s your “scene” ;-)
Take my breath away.....away... lol !! Good one Adam !!
TheDailyWoo Slacker to Top Gun LOL
This movie was my wife and I's first date. 32 1/2 years later we are still together.
Haha thats awesome. Me and my wifes 1st date was Hancock (drunken super hero )
sana all
I guess she didn't lose that loving feeling
You guys see the new one together? It was great
👏👏👏👏
I distinctly remember taking my youngest son to see this movie when he was 17. The next few weeks it was obvious he wanted to be a Naval Aviator because every other word was Navy this or Navy that and a few dozen Navy posters showing up on his bedroom walls. Well, when he graduated the following year off to the Navy he went. He passed all the exams and was admitted to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island when he got his bars from there he was off to Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida where he received further training on both the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet and carrier landings and takeoffs and somewhere during all of that he was also in the Naval Aviation Cadet (NavCad) Program due to the shortage in pilots back then he was finally allowed to attend college for his courses to satisfy his commision in 1994 and got his degree in 1996. I asked him one time if it was anything like the movie. He looked me right in the eye and said "Dad it sucks. The Navy won't let you do anything if you do anything shown in that movie they pull your wings and kick you out." I laughed for hours over that, myself I spend 24 years in the Army, 1946-1948 American Occupation forces Germany, Warrant Officer, and helicopter training 1949-1951, Korea, 1951-1953, 1954-1956. Vietnam 1960-1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968 then back stateside until given my walking papers in 1970, retired as a Warrant Officer 4 (W-4).
Great story Andrew.
Either your memory/understanding of events is failing you OR you are full of sh*t.
Thank you for your and families service. God bless America!
Ha ha reality sucks....
@@USNRaptor care to tell us why?
What an awesome kick straight to the solar plexus of 80s nostalgia combined with a great portion of humor. Thank you so much for sharing this gem.
Brings back so many memories of skipping class during my Junior year in High School to go see Top Gun!!!!!I was obsessed with this movie and was going to enlist in the Navy my senior year but wound up going in the Army 11 BRAVO Airborne at Ft Benning GA.I respect you Adam for taking us all on these memorable journeys back to these classic times in cinematic history.Thank you sir and it's greatly appreciated!!!!.Now it's on to the next video here on the channel...Join.... me....SHALL YOU?
I love these filming location vids...almost detective-like work matching up the past to the present based on the limited clues available
I was there the day they shot the scene on the motorcycle. I have photos. I was recently out of bootcamp and stationed there in school as an enlisted sailor on what had been the Naval Training Center. I was probably coming back from lunch or something, because I would pass that way returning from lunch. They had about three different cycles they used and they were on a small trailer. They also later shot that scene in her car after Goose's death on the same place a few days later. In both scenes was hard to see the actors. The area was taped off to restrict access. Someone told me it was Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. I had walked down that hallway many times. I remember thinking how dull I thought the base was, and I was surprised they would use it for a scene. The Hollywood movie magic, though, made that hallway look incredible. I probably sat there and watched them do about 3 or 4 takes of the scene before moving on because as anyone knows who has watched movies being made, it's intensely slow and boring.
I was in the Marine Corps 1st Recon in 1986, my wife, daughter, and I lived blocks away. We reenacted the motorcycle kissing scene on my bike at the marina after watching the movie. Oceanside was the laid back hippie area back then, there were all night guitar jam sessions on the beach by campfire fueled with LSD and weed. Really sad to see it bulldozed and turned into just another development. All the charm is gone, as is my wife. Such is life. Thanks for the tour.
Dude, you are more entertaining than 10 TV shows. Thanks for who you are and what you do...Mr. Woo. 😃
The licence plate was "inverted"
..(cough) Bullsh*t...
@@HEADBANGERSBALLER Haha gutsiest move mav!
So, you're the one! :D
In a 4G negative dive?
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My friend and I grew up on this film when we were kids, we are now both 45 and still as thick as thief’s. Even now we still quote top gun phrases to each other mid conversation like it’s an in joke. Reminds us of our great friendship and growing up together..... hope you see this comment Jimmy (aka Goose) !
Top Gun is one of my all time favorite movies... thank you for this one!! I can’t wait to see the sequel!!
Heck yea
@@TheDailyWoo Fuck yea
Thanks for showing these filming locations. Glad they haven’t torn down the house from the movie. I loved that movie and one of my favorite soundtracks! One of the great movies of the 1980s. 👍
Props to the guy at 11:53 for accurately turning his wheels into the curb on a downhill slope as well as the 2 men behind him.
This was such an iconic 80's movie! I loved the jets flying over when you were filming. Great job on all this! I remember I had a Top Gun Nintendo game that I used to think was so realistic!
Adam, A very welcome blast from the past !!! Im from Canada was windsurfing at the time In Buxton North Carolina thats where i saw TOP GUN I will never forget that trip. My GF broke up with me two months before and when i got back I started see another girl who would later become my wife you just never know. The caper is now I'm divorced, retired, no debt and life is GOOD !!! Thank the Lord and pass the ammunition. :)
One of my all time favorite movies from the 80's. Had a chance to see it in the theater when I was a kid.
WOW, you did it again, Adam. This was terrific. TY for doing your homework, the legwork, and the commentary in order to match certain iconic scenes with their locations. NOBODY does this better than you, Adam...👍✔🤗
I grew up in San Diego. The first time I saw Top Gun was at a small movie theater just north of the navy airfield where the Real Top Gun pilots trained. It was fun to hear some of them talking about the filming of the movie.
I was working at NAS Miramar when they started filming. It was exciting!!! Thanks Adam!!
A wonderful facility you were fortunate to be at, and I have fond memories of it too. Are you now in the Navy and/or Blue Angels?
No you weren't.
OMG that's sounds fun and cool ..Do you remember what scenes did you see?
This movie was released 36 years ago , I am watching this video today on the 20 June 2022 in India I was astonished with how still in the United States of America and memories of Top Gun is still alive ? It came to India the same year. I saw the film I was probably 14 years old now I am 50 years old and so on … well the making and the star cast was amazing back then and is amazing now I still have to go and watch the sequel.. I don’t know that the sequel will be remembered for 36 years..but the original 1986 Top Gun will never ever die … it will always be in the hearts and mind of people across the globe and generations will talk about it I am sure they are talking about it even now ..
This is one of my best favorites movies... love top gun
Born and raised here in San Diego we have beautiful beaches and tons of history, new top gun is also being filmed here in Diego again
I grew up in Oceanside in the late eighties to late nineties and they have been talking about repairing the top gun house long as I can remember
I lived on base near Oceanside 1992 &1993. Been to the house and pier.
EDventures * I lived off of mission in a neighborhood called “posole” on puls st. I went to south O and lots of kids there lived on base
@@noneoftheeabove8514 That's great, I was 20 and 21 when I was stationed there
Great, I admit that the location where Goose played the piano was a blast from the past.
Thank you!
Very interesting. Top gun will always be my favorite movie of all time.
The best (of the best) 80's movies EVER :)
Such an excellent vlog Adam. Thanks for putting in the nice work and sharing with us 🙌🏻
Yay, another filming location video! As a kid, my parents took me to a state-of-the-art shop to see a new fangled device called a laserdisc player. They discussed a purchase as I browsed the titles. Top Gun is the only one I remember vividly!
MY WIFE AND I WENT ON A CRUISE (NO PUN INTENDED) AND WE DOCKED RIGHT NEXT TO THE USS MIDWAY, AND WE WALKED AROUND THE STREETS OF SAN DIEGO. I JUST HAPPENED TO COME UPON THIS PLACE. WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THERE. I WALKED IN AND BOUGHT A T-SHIRT. I'M GLAD I GOT TO VISIT.
What a classic movie. Thanks so much retracing time.
OH MY GOSH. Adam, I SERIOUSLY just watched Top Gun last night and I was just thinking about the bar they shot the piano scene in. I’ve been in the past. The last time I went they were talking about how they survived the fire. What are the chances! Great timing. Always love your film location shoots!
That's funny . Thanks for watching
TheDailyWoo THANKS for MAKING THEM! Always appreciate the hard work!
Thanks so.much for presenting the film locations of TOP GUN 1. I enjoyed it very much. It was in the beginning of my twenties when I watched the movie in a movie theatre of my hometown. And now 36 years and two cities later in Berlin in Germany I was able to watch Top Gun II. I have not been to California for a long time. Time to return in the near future. My very best wishes. ☘️🙋♀️🌞
Amazing. Hope they saved that house. You brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks Adam.
I went to that bar when we pulled back into San Diego I was on the USS Nimitz. My co workers were telling me how good the beer was. I said beer is beer. I don’t know if it had to do with being out to sea so long or what but the beer there was amazing! Still the best bud-light I’ve been had to this day.
Shaking my head and grinning @ Adam's rendition 😄😄😄😄
Very cool vlog! *OMG.. I was in jr high, nudging my sister during that "awkward" kissing scene because my parents took us! 🙈 We were so embarrassed, lol!
Amazing almost 33 years of this film recreating the locations that has been filmed, i love top gun and thanks for the video.
Its the daily woooooo..
Top gun is such a classic..
(Take my breath awaaaayy) dun dun dun dun duuuun
Man i love this channel..
Join me, shall you?
@@EinkOLED I shall..so I can keep up with future endeavors..lol..
Highway to the danger zone !!!
"Just walk away." I literally laughed out loud. Funny guy! 😂😂
Oh my goodness, thanks man for leaving such a detailed introduction! I would definitely hope to visit there later
Feels good to have grown up around all these spots.
Adam, your always fun and interesting to watch. You go to some great places and share memories etc. However, every now and again you pull one out the bag that is quite mind blowing. I am sure different age groups of your channel will find different vlogs more appealing for their own reasons, but for me 1986 was my middle teens, and this film was huge. Just seeing that little blue house brought back so may memories. Fantastic vlog, I know have that song in my head, and I am now going to have to watch the movie again. have a great day Mr Woo.
Can only imagine the look on the patron's faces when you're nailing "Take My Breath Away". Great video, man!
Wow! Top Gun....you very rarely see vlogs about Top Gun filming locations. Great work, buddy!
Chris the Shrinerdawg and there’s nobody else lining up those impossible screen shots to actual locations. Sometimes I wonder how the hell he finds the most difficult to imagine locations based off the grainiest screen shots
Top Gujn 2 was such a Great sequel
You should visit the filming locations of Cocktail...
If you’re like me, and you’re a die hard Top Gun fan you would see how cool this is! I think it’s still cool after it looking broken down and ugly, it is still cool. It’s history and I think it’s so cool! I’ve loved Top Gun since I was 4 and that has been awhile! 💗
This is ironic, I just watched Top Gun yesterday. Great vlog as always, love the filming locations!
Wow! After 36 years ,still look the same since the first Top Gun!
Love the detail on these Adam. Appreciate the hard work you put into it.
I came back from my second year in a row from a trip to MCAS Miramar. Since the marines moved in and TOPGUN moved to NAS Fallon, Fightertown USA has been long gone, and it's just not the same anymore.
I love Top Gun, Thanks for doing this Adam!
OMG!!! At 10:48 you can see my ship. The mighty U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 "Top Gun of the Pacific Fleet". I served on her from 89-93. Some of the scenes from Top Gun were filmed aboard Ranger.
Your commitment and dedication on these videos are amazing well done on great work .
One thing you should have mentioned is that Liberty station AKA “NTC park”
has only been called that since the mid nineties. That entire area was the Naval training center for the entire western Fleet of the U.S. Navy for nearly 80 years. Nearly every sailor went through their initial training there, until the base was moved to Coronado in the early nineties, and the city of San Diego purchased the land and accompanying buildings and turned it into a gorgeous park.
Oh heck yeah! “I feel the need... the need for speed”
Classic stuff
Tampa Jay Honestly This a great example why I love the Woo.
METH?
Cheesey'ist line ever !!!
They filmed the locker room scenes inside the old original 1925 Mission Beach Plunge. I had an office in there and the crew used the side access (through my office) to get in and out of the room they converted to a locker room. I got to hang out in back of the lockers and a side room while they filmed. I upset Tom Cruise's emoting and was told shortly after I wasn't needed in there, BUT pages from a scrap book I was keeping about the Mission Beach roller coaster restoration (that was taking place at the time) was featured prominently on the bulletin board on the wall, clearly seen in the movie! Much more to the story, and it's one of my favorites.
For the morbidly curious, just down the beach from the Top Gun house is Junior Seau's house where he unfortunately took his own life 😮
Oceanside is also where Anissa Jones, Buffy on Family Affair overdosed
One of my favorite movies ever, I was lucky enough to see this in person years ago.
top gun is my favorite movie
My favorite Movie. Fell in love with the military. Now I’m a 23 year Air Force vet
Thank you for sharing this vlog. It
has taken my brearh away. Rock on
I just came upon this. I am a native San Diegian but in 1986 I was in the Philippines with my Navy husband. I got to see this with a bunch of Navy airmen from Cubi NAB. It was quite the experience. Nice work Adam. 😎
You never fail Adam. Keep up the good work
At the end Adam sounds like Peter Griffin humming the Top Gun(Take My Breath Away) theme. LOL
I love Top Gun! I started singing “Take My Breath Away” too right as I saw this. :-) I literally gasped a few days ago when I saw Tom Cruise in the flight suit doing a promo for “Maverick!” Can’t wait! Another great movie location video from you Adam, love it! :-)
I heard the new movie got pushed back a bit
After the sequel is out even more film shoots ;)
I didn't know what top gun until about a year ago when my friend showed me. Didn't think much of a 80s movie but boy was a wrong. Absolutely best comedy
Adam, you can be my wing man any time
That's right, comm onnnnnn.
Talk to me Adam. Talk to me Adam. (Sweating nervously)
Man, this is VERY cool. Really enjoyed the entire video. Thanks for doing this for all the fans!!!
I love this!!! I've seen Top Gun so many times because it is my Mom's favorite movie of all time... Great video but you missed one key location, the volleyball scene!
that scene was filmed on base built the court filmed the scene and tore in down
Man, when you see how this area has developed, it makes me realise how cosy and comfortable in the eighties we all were, it's all soulless pop-up hotels and estates with no character now. How lucky we were to be alive in this time.
My uncle lived there in 86 and he remembers when they shot the movie and he was shocked at how muched had changed in that area when he returned to the US.
It was like the magic had completely gone and he just felt depressed walking through the neighbourhood 4 years ago.
Great movie location tour, Adam. Nobody has covered Top Gun like you have! I'd love to see more movie location vlogs like this, and less of the theme park vids, but that's just me. Thanks again Adam!!!! :-p
Oh wow. My old boot camp is now Liberty Station. Crazy!
This movie was largely responsible for my enlistment in 1992.
Great video but you forgot to drive to vipers house at point loma lighthouse. Just a few miles from downtown san diego.
First time we saw Top Gun was at the Loma on Rosecrans in Point Loma. The theater was full of Swabies from the Naval Tng Center and Jarheads from the MCRD. After the movie, we drove around some of the San Diego locations in the movie.
Dang it Woo! I am gonna have Take My Breath Away stuck in my head now all day!
Ha same
@@TheDailyWoo Geez this song has become a real earworm for me today! I've been watching an Elvis movie marathon in honor of The King's bday & not even the songs from Blue Hawaii have been able to knock Berlin out of my head! 😂
This created a whole lot of nostalgia!!!
I was skeptical that any interior scenes were filmed at that house. I figured they would have been shot on the studio lot, in a recreated setting. I also thought the cozy lattice-walled enclave with the wicker furniture was filmed elsewhere, not believing there was enough space around the house for that setting. Thanks for pointing out some details which cleared things up.
Other than being an obvious fan of Top Gun...a few years back I was attending a 4th of July event in the south OC and the band playing was Berlin. I was crossing the crowd to reach my friends who reserved a spot to watch the fireworks...when all of a sudden that song (Take My Breath Away) started playing. She got on a roadie’s shoulder and walked the crowd. I looked up and she was singing those lyrics, looking down right in front of me! Surreal and a memory keeper to say the least!!
People used to park their motorcycles in front of The Top Gun House and take a picture of it...
I can imagine . Would be cool to ride up in front of there on one
@@TheDailyWoo 😎👍
I guess like time it moves forward and that era is lost in time....
@@timexironman100m Like the sands of an hourglass....
I was in the Navy assigned to VF-1 The Wolfpack about 4 years after the movie was made. My squadron is the one they used to make the movie with. A squadron mate of mine and myself spent about a year off and on hunting down locations from the movie in 1991. Because we were in the Navy and worked in the hanger everyday where a lot of the movie was shot we had access to almost every location that was used in the movie. No one at that time was looking for these locations and there were no internet forums to help find these places. We did have one thing going for us though and it was the fact that a lot of guys we were stationed with had been around when the movie was made and they helped us locate a bunch of locations. The famous bathroom scene was filmed on the Navy Recruit base. When I was in boot camp I, was assigned the job of cleaning the bathrooms in the evening after hours at the headquarters building. That's were I found the women's bathroom which is were the bathroom scene was filmed and that started my curiosity to find the rest of the places later on once I was stationed at Miramar. I think we found every single location of importance used. The volleyball court was in front on my barracks so I walked across that almost everyday LOL. I have a photo album that has all of the locations as they were in 1991.
love the intro
I love this video. Brings back memories of watching it all the time with my high school boyfriend.
THE DAILY WOO!!
The carrier, in the background, of the hill drive scene, was USS Ranger CV61. It was scrapped in Brownsville, TX a couple of years ago.
Another awesome video 👍🏼
about Charlie’s house it makes me angry that everything is so over developed that they ruined that area they should’ve not ruined that area and demolished the surrounding bungalows it also makes me very sad that this society doesn’t value anything classic/historic because we loose out on so much beauty because people just don’t care anymore. 😢
You'll really ROLL your eyes if you see what they did with the cottage. Well, in all fairness it's good and bad. First they MOVED it from that location to down the street a bit to accommodate for said hotels. But they remodeled nicely and now it's a PIE shop! LOL, and there's a replica of Maverick's motorcycle parked in front which is always inundated with tourists. Da da da da daah da daahh. hahahahaha
@@markirons3838 I know and I am upset, they aught to have refurbished it to exactly what it was like in the movie… It’s sad and aggravating all at once!
LMAO...i keep getting the vision of this grown man walking around the BBQ place humming that song filming everything.DUH DUH DUH DUH DHUUUU DUH DUH DUH ......
Great video! But they always are great.
Pauline Reeves I do agree!
You are amazing at finding the exact locations from all of these movies.
It's a fun challenge
love it
Thank you for showing this. I was a young child saw the movie with my dad. Involuntarily it correlates with gone back times.
Days Of Thunder filming locations needs to happen!!!!!!
The barn is still in Charlotte but its definitely getting old these days 😞
That would be a fun one
I live right down the road from the barn!
BrendanTheGent Thats awesome!! I was lucky enough to visit it when I was in the area for the ROVAL race.. Im a huge fan of Days of Thunder lol
@@InfieldIke i need to film it for youtube. Before anything happens to it.
Haha i was at the Roval race also.
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW TOP GUN MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awesome job! You should do CHiPs locations.
I had, and still have the Top Gun soundtrack LP.
hey adam you forgot "miramar navel base" that was in top gun
base is still an active installation (MCAS Miramar ) cant access it being civilian the only place open to the public is liberty station
@@chriswells9859 not so when someone like me who has family who is military and works for the government furthermore I happen to hold information on things not even you or anyone else knows
Being from the Kansas city area and noticing the kansas city picture on the wall behind Tom Cruise in a scene was awesome in the bar classic movie 👍
you have waited for 34 years to make that video LOL
Memories! What a flick, everybody wanted to be a pilot after seeing it...
Woo! Woo!