These field trips/on location videos are always great to see, especially when it comes to old forgotten places. Keep up the great work and have a great rest of the year. Take care!
Rick, Great video. We love Laurel & Hardy & that's one of our favorite shows. Thank you for showing it to us. 😊 That's a LOT of steps to walk up & down. Whew! 😵💫
Another great episode, Rick! That movie short was made almost 93 (1932) years ago. Also if you search online for ‘music box steps’ you a find then and now pictures and see how different the neighborhood looked. My mom grew up in LA in the 1940’s and the neighborhood she lived in had lots of steps like that going up several levels.
Thanks for a great video. Your videos are always a treat. I enjoy when you take these field trips and you show us these locations. Keep up the great work.
OMG loved this,! And right at the beginning when you mentioned the 3 Stooges steps I was like “ oh I remember that video “! I was surprised you had never been there Rick, knowing your love for movies and TV! Please do more of these it’s so cool. I love that it’s recognized by the city officially. So cool
Thank you for taking us on another adventure/tour. One of my favorite movies and love the steps ( Heave. Ho!) I pause your videos with the tours to find the places on Google Maps. Many thanks for stating street names (and translation too). Happy New Year! May the New Year be filled with good health, good fortune, and plenty of hopefulness. ❤️❤️
Just FYI. These steps are in the original neighborhood of HOLLYWOODLAND, which is on the hill where the HOLLYWOOD sign is and the original reason the sign was put up.
These remind me very much of several of the divider steps between neighborhoods and streets around here in San Francisco, Rick! Many are concrete like this and some are wooden. It made me look up which - if any movies were filmed here using them and quite a few were including What's Up Doc? in 1972 to The 1923 version of The Ten Commandments! Great video!
Well I don't know why but I was thinking there was probably a home at the top!? Lol or a large sidewalk, as big as a fan as I am I didn't know it was just another road!? Lol Thank you buddy! ✌ just like everybody else I can't tell you how many hours my side has been hurting and they're just as funny every single time you watch them! ❤
The steps span the length of four houses. I wonder how the people in the middle houses get in and out, other than the steps. If that's the case, large deliveries must be a bear. Perhaps not music boxes, but certainly refrigerators.😊❤
@@atreb56 yes the house. Didn’t hear any mention of it in the video, but I heard years ago that the house in the film at the top of the steps was elsewhere. Of course, we all thought that the steps were private steps leading to a home at the top. Movie magic at its finest.
Thanks for another great field trip, Rick. I could NEVER have made it up those steps 😂 Oh boy! That's great it's still around. And cement was made to last back then. Like everything else 😢
That was so cool! I wonder if those steps are lit at night for safety? Proud of you for taking one for the channel and climbing the stairs both up and down! 🥇
I love your field trips.thanks for sharing another great one of an icon movie location. Jerry Lewis talked about consulting with Stan Laurel on movie comedy scenes. Very interesting man.
Thanks Rick for the tour of these famous steps. It was great seeing what the area looks like at the top. I bet you can get your cardio walking up those steps.
Thanks for this video! It was great seeing what the steps look like now. Can you imagine pushing a piano up those steps? I assume the piano they used in the film was hollowed out, but it still must have been a workout. Do you know if the house at the top of hill in the film is still standing? Thanks
Thanks Rick for climbing those famous 133 steps for us. What a thrill to say you walked up and down the same steps that Laurel and Hardy once filmed one of their best movie shorts.
Thank you this was very interesting I have never been to California but when I do get to go this is something I would like to do go to famous filming locations
Yea, that stuff on the left wasn't there in the 20s. I worked for a film and commercial location scout in the 70s. There are a lot of these interesting places all over the Los Angeles area. Not to mention all over the Southland. Thanks for this video.
I always looked for Laurel and Hardy movies as a kid in the ‘50’s . The piano was a favorite and over the years I’ve always wondered where the steps are and hoped to see and visit there. So pleased to accidentally come across your video-thank you. I am disappointed however. I’d hoped to see the house at the top and the driveway! Oh well, I can still compare some things from then to today. Just little details to see what’s still there after all these years. The buildings and the concrete steps offer some fun for me. Thanks, and if you or anyone knows of the house in the movie, I’d really like to know!
My apartment was located a few buildings away from the steps. My brother and sister had to walk up the steps from Vendome to catch the bus to school. When you pan over to the park sign you can see the apartments I used to live in from 1959 to 1963, They are the apartmentments with the white crossed rails. Steve McQueen, his mother, and stepdad lived at the top of the steps and a few apartments away.
Man, I grew up loving to watch reruns of Laurel and Hardy, the three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, and I have good memories sitting with my late uncle watching Harrold Lloyd, All the classic slapstick movies. L&H had shows both in my home city and current town when they toured the UK scene. My current town has a comedy museum with one of Stan's bowlers on display. Poor guy snuffed it in an armchair just after pulling one last pun.
I grew up a few blocks southwest of there. In the early 60's I saw The Music Box on TV and someone said it was a few blocks from here so me an a friend rode our bikes there and walked it. I recall it it was exhausting.
This location is also near the Army Surplus store used in the movie Falling Down (1993) I think the Surplus store is long gone now. It was there in 2010 I remember.
The three stooges also did a hilarious short there in 1939 which was about curly transporting a block of ice up the steps which was considerably smaller when he arrived. "Well you can put that one in your pocket"
Not everyone has forgotten them. I took my wife and daughter there several years ago and we climbed them. Too bad I can't add photos here. And yeah, it's a real workout.
I shouldn't be, but I am always surprised that the streets are narrow and buildings so close together. Also, things like the stairs would never be considered. Then I remember that the idea of planned out suburbia-type living didn't emerge until the 1920s in Kansas City, and even in that area, when they planned for automobiles at all, they planned for one per house. So, everything everywhere prior to that was geared toward other forms of transportation. These look like magical places to me.
At the top of the steps 2nd house on the right was where a very young Steve McQueen lived until 1945 when he was forced by court order to live at the boys republic in Chino.
Thank you, didn’t the boys realize there was a driveway leading to the home they were delivering to? There was also a fountain where their horse drank from. There seems to be no home now or fountain, just more streets. Were the home and fountain in the film built on a separate set? Or was that original home and fountain demolished over the years? Again. Thanks, lots of fun.
Thank you Rick! I really enjoy when you take us on these "field trips".
Thanks for watching! I enjoy doing them too.
@@ricknineg So do I. Plus, I don't need to put on my walking shoes for these.
I love The Music Box. Thanks for showing us the Park and the Steps.
Thanks for doing this for remembering good old Stanley and Ollie!
Great episode, Rick. Nice to see you on camera and not just narrating.
I appreciate that!
These field trips/on location videos are always great to see, especially when it comes to old forgotten places. Keep up the great work and have a great rest of the year. Take care!
Rick, Great video. We love Laurel & Hardy & that's one of our favorite shows. Thank you for showing it to us. 😊 That's a LOT of steps to walk up & down. Whew! 😵💫
Another great episode, Rick! That movie short was made almost 93 (1932) years ago. Also if you search online for ‘music box steps’ you a find then and now pictures and see how different the neighborhood looked.
My mom grew up in LA in the 1940’s and the neighborhood she lived in had lots of steps like that going up several levels.
That's so cool. Yeah those steps would be a very good workout. Thank you Rick. Happy New Year.
I live 1.3 miles away. Born and raised here in east hollywood, yes this is silver lake and live in the next neighborhood Rampart 😀 !!!!!!! Thank you.
Rick, I enjoy going along with you on all your excursions. It always made my day!!!
Thanks for all you do, it’s appreciated. Happy New Year 🎈
Thanks for a great video. Your videos are always a treat. I enjoy when you take these field trips and you show us these locations. Keep up the great work.
I still haven't visited the steps. I loved the film when I was a kid and now I'm 60, but one day, I will be there.
Happy New Year, Rick. Thanks for your efforts to bring us along!
OMG loved this,! And right at the beginning when you mentioned the 3 Stooges steps I was like “ oh I remember that video “! I was surprised you had never been there Rick, knowing your love for movies and TV! Please do more of these it’s so cool. I love that it’s recognized by the city officially. So cool
Music Box is the funniest ! Thanks for taking us !
I enjoyed the video! I grew up loving Laural and Hardy. I hope they're never forgotten.
Thank You. You are very creative and an excellent presenter.
So cool! The park is a great commemoration to Laurel and Hardy. I love LA! Thanks for taking us on another interesting tour!
It really is a great tribute to them!
Thanks for another great video. Looking forward to more videos in 2025. Happy New Year!
Thank you Mr. Ning for the great video. Very informative 😊 0:44
Love your videos I watch from Dublin Ireland great to see more of you in person I like your voice
Love it. Some day I’ll visit these places. You’re lucky to live amongst it all.
Thank you for taking us on another adventure/tour. One of my favorite movies and love the steps ( Heave. Ho!) I pause your videos with the tours to find the places on Google Maps. Many thanks for stating street names (and translation too). Happy New Year! May the New Year be filled with good health, good fortune, and plenty of hopefulness. ❤️❤️
Very cool. I'm enjoying your on-location videos. Keep up the good work
Glad you like them!
I missed visiting this place during my LA days... always enjoy a virtual visit with my youtubers👌👍👋👋👋 Thank you Rick, the side trips are GREAT!
Just FYI. These steps are in the original neighborhood of HOLLYWOODLAND, which is on the hill where the HOLLYWOOD sign is and the original reason the sign was put up.
I 'm winded just watching you. I enjoy these "field trips" because you show Hollywood history I will probably never visit. Thank you !
I just subscribed Rick! I do enjoy you taking us on these excursions!! very historic and fun to see!!
Welcome to the channel and thank you so much for being a new subscriber!
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing this with us. 👍
We appreciate so much the field trips! Feel like I have been there. ❤
I've seen other videos of this but yours is amazing! Thanks for the tour.
Fun vid. Thank you for taking me along
These remind me very much of several of the divider steps between neighborhoods and streets around here in San Francisco, Rick! Many are concrete like this and some are wooden. It made me look up which - if any movies were filmed here using them and quite a few were including What's Up Doc? in 1972 to The 1923 version of The Ten Commandments! Great video!
Well I don't know why but I was thinking there was probably a home at the top!? Lol or a large sidewalk, as big as a fan as I am I didn't know it was just another road!? Lol Thank you buddy! ✌ just like everybody else I can't tell you how many hours my side has been hurting and they're just as funny every single time you watch them! ❤
The steps span the length of four houses. I wonder how the people in the middle houses get in and out, other than the steps. If that's the case, large deliveries must be a bear. Perhaps not music boxes, but certainly refrigerators.😊❤
Happy New Year! My sister and I are die-hard fans of Laurel & Hardy so this video is a treat! Thanks, Rick!
Thank you. I remember this movie as a kid.
Very cool episode Thamks Rick
FUN!
They say, "No one walks in LA."
It depends on how bad the parking is!
Thanks so much. Happy New Year to you and your bride.
Happy new year! We truly thank you and appreciate it
@@atreb56 yes the house. Didn’t hear any mention of it in the video, but I heard years ago that the house in the film at the top of the steps was elsewhere. Of course, we all thought that the steps were private steps leading to a home at the top. Movie magic at its finest.
My rickety old knees would never let me climb those stairs, LOL. Thanks for doing it for me.
Thanks for another great field trip, Rick. I could NEVER have made it up those steps 😂 Oh boy! That's great it's still around. And cement was made to last back then. Like everything else 😢
Cool indeed. Thanks for the tours. Glad this exists.
The South Bay Bike Rider needs to go out there to document…always been a fan of Laurel and Hardy since I was a kid…thank you for sharing.
That was so cool! I wonder if those steps are lit at night for safety? Proud of you for taking one for the channel and climbing the stairs both up and down! 🥇
As someone who will probably ever make it to LA, these tours are really appreciated. Thank you!
Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I love your field trips.thanks for sharing another great one of an icon movie location. Jerry Lewis talked about consulting with Stan Laurel on movie comedy scenes. Very interesting man.
Thanks, Rick! Appreciate you!
You’re welcome!
Thanks Rick for the tour of these famous steps. It was great seeing what the area looks like at the top. I bet you can get your cardio walking up those steps.
Happy New Year to you Rick & your new wife.
Great video Rick. If memory serves, I think Steve McQueen at one time lived near the steps.
Thanks for this video! It was great seeing what the steps look like now.
Can you imagine pushing a piano up those steps? I assume the piano they used in the film was hollowed out, but it still must have been a workout.
Do you know if the house at the top of hill in the film is still standing? Thanks
Thank you so much for the video. I love old Hollywood locations my husband and I were out there about 3 years ago it is a beautiful state.
My neighborhood! You walked right past my house.
Cool location! I didn't know there was a park there.
Me neither
Thank you Rick
That was nice Rick. Big fan of laurel & Hardy. Thanks. 😊 Ken from Indiana.
Thank you. One of my fav. L. &H. Shorts.
From Baltimore, can't wait to get back out to LA again and check out some of these locations.
Fantastic
I've seen this movie!! I'd love to check this out
I did not know. Thank You
Another cool video idea.👍👍
I made my own pilgrimage to the steps in November. Happily, it's far from a forgotten location.
Good tour!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Rick for climbing those famous 133 steps for us. What a thrill to say you walked up and down the same steps that Laurel and Hardy once filmed one of their best movie shorts.
Great video! Did the fires get that area?😢
Thanks for finding those steps. No way I could climb those at once
Thanks Rick this is so cool
Thank you this was very interesting I have never been to California but when I do get to go this is something I would like to do go to famous filming locations
Now I want to see the short, thank you.
Yea, that stuff on the left wasn't there in the 20s.
I worked for a film and commercial location scout in the 70s. There are a lot of these interesting places all over the Los Angeles area. Not to mention all over the Southland.
Thanks for this video.
I always looked for Laurel and Hardy movies as a kid in the ‘50’s . The piano was a favorite and over the years I’ve always wondered where the steps are and hoped to see and visit there. So pleased to accidentally come across your video-thank you. I am disappointed however. I’d hoped to see the house at the top and the driveway! Oh well, I can still compare some things from then to today. Just little details to see what’s still there after all these years. The buildings and the concrete steps offer some fun for me. Thanks, and if you or anyone knows of the house in the movie, I’d really like to know!
Nice 👍
Oh come on, Let's see you move a grand piano up those steps ! 🎹😵😋
I noticed that the early three stooges shorts were filmed on location, Beautiful west Coast locations
My apartment was located a few buildings away from the steps. My brother and sister had to walk up the steps from Vendome to catch the bus to school. When you pan over to the park sign you can see the apartments I used to live in from 1959 to 1963, They are the apartmentments with the white crossed rails. Steve McQueen, his mother, and stepdad lived at the top of the steps and a few apartments away.
Very cool.
Happy New Year!!🎉
Dear RIck, what a step in the right direction. You walked approx. 9 - 11 flights of stairs. All you need is hand weights.
Man, I grew up loving to watch reruns of Laurel and Hardy, the three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, and I have good memories sitting with my late uncle watching Harrold Lloyd, All the classic slapstick movies. L&H had shows both in my home city and current town when they toured the UK scene. My current town has a comedy museum with one of Stan's bowlers on display. Poor guy snuffed it in an armchair just after pulling one last pun.
I lived about half a block away from those steps!
Thank you !!!
Lived Descanso Dr. 1969..up/down steps a lot..hang left at bottom to Sunset blvd.😊
I grew up a few blocks southwest of there. In the early 60's I saw The Music Box on TV and someone said it was a few blocks from here so me an a friend rode our bikes there and walked it. I recall it it was exhausting.
I'm going to have to look up how high an elevation change those steps go.
The Exorcist Steps are amazing to visit in Washington DC.....and now the Joker Steps have become a thing in NYC.
This location is also near the Army Surplus store used in the movie Falling Down (1993) I think the Surplus store is long gone now. It was there in 2010 I remember.
The three stooges also did a hilarious short there in 1939 which was about curly transporting a block of ice up the steps which was considerably smaller when he arrived. "Well you can put that one in your pocket"
Just watched the original L&H short movie. That area has been quite built up since 1931!
Not everyone has forgotten them. I took my wife and daughter there several years ago and we climbed them. Too bad I can't add photos here. And yeah, it's a real workout.
Had no idea. They are listed in Google Maps, by the way, and can be "walked". Now, I want to see that film!
I shouldn't be, but I am always surprised that the streets are narrow and buildings so close together. Also, things like the stairs would never be considered. Then I remember that the idea of planned out suburbia-type living didn't emerge until the 1920s in Kansas City, and even in that area, when they planned for automobiles at all, they planned for one per house. So, everything everywhere prior to that was geared toward other forms of transportation. These look like magical places to me.
At the top of the steps 2nd house on the right was where a very young Steve McQueen lived until 1945 when he was forced by court order to live at the boys republic in Chino.
Many Harold LLoyd movies were also shot at public locations.
Maybe some time you could add the John Wick and Joker steps to the "stair collection".
Thank you, didn’t the boys realize there was a driveway leading to the home they were delivering to? There was also a fountain where their horse drank from. There seems to be no home now or fountain, just more streets. Were the home and fountain in the film built on a separate set? Or was that original home and fountain demolished over the years? Again. Thanks, lots of fun.
I've seen a lot of people do those but it's always interesting that park looks like a doggie poop park