"Twilight Zone" Secret FILMING Location Revealed after 63 Years!
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- "Twilight Zone" Secret FILMING Location Revealed after 63 Years!
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Wouldn't it be neat if someone with money bought this building and renovated it to resemble the exact same look from the show. What a treat that would be for fans of this episode. Thanks Rick
So cool!
one of my favorite travel things to do is filming locations! thank you for sharing and please do more!
@@eddie8279 It doesn't take money. It takes a sale and love.
@@stanleybest8833 It always takes money. Lots of it.
Yes, it would be great.
This episode was one of my top favorites of Twilight Zone. Thanks for showing us where it was filmed.
It was a very favored of mine too 😊
This was pretty much my favorite episode but there are other videos of where this was filmed
@@longhaireddj4 it was one of the best episodes!
Excellent writing, directing, and acting.
One of my favs also. Time travel and the meeting of two different time periods. Of course great actors as always.
Pictures of filming locations are fun, especially when combined with stories about the making of the show. Thanks for doing these.
Glad you enjoyed it!
In the 80s and 90s, my job had me driving past this location every week. Hwy 395 is a beautiful drive. I never got tired of the scenery.🙋♂️🏍💨
If it was open, ever stop in?
395 is Beautiful. From the high desert valley with mountain back drop to alpine mountains and lakes.
@@josephrochefort9989 Yeah. Sure you're correct. Have to be a person who only wanted work (short order cook, janitor, maintenance) ever so often. Maybe have a couple retiree workers.
@@markdaniel8740Yes. 395 is awesome! Those Eastern Sierras are spectacular. That Film History Museum in Lone Pine is a must. It’s unbelievable how many movies were filmed out there in the Alabama Hills. And the interesting history of that whole Owens Valley.
Especially stopping in Lone Pine for a bite to eat and watching the snow bunnies on their way from LA to Mammoth! It was one of the finer things to do on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings when stationed at China Lake with the US of N. from 1969-72!
I drive to Reno from Los Angeles 3-4 times a year and pass by this building every time. It always reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode and brings a smile to my face. Such a great show
A Twilight Zone episode that was very memorable. Talented actors, a great storyline (who doesn't love time travel?) and beautiful scenery. It was so well done and unique.
395 is one of the most interesting roads I've travelled on. Beautiful and lots to see.
Past Schat's is US-6. It's the longest single road in the US. There is a mileage sign that says how far it is to the other end just outside of town.
Take that to US-95 and find another out of this world interesting drive. Go north toward Boise. There's even a sign that says "Lobster Crossing" and it has a real story behind it.
Great episode! Anyone who watched The Twilght Zone will love this episode!
Seeing the cafe/gas station in this episode reminded me of trips with my family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. What great memories!
These cafes were great. Good, simple food with (usually) good service and interesting decor. Depending on the location, these cafes would often display items of local history and interest.
Love the gas station, too. Again, depending on the oil company and the owner, these service stations were often run by WWII vets who could literally fix anything.
The set decorations inside the cafe were right out of the post-era. Classic!
Yeah, I call these Mom and Pop diners. Sadly they are fading fast being replaced by franchised, commercialized, cookie cutter restaurants. They got no soul.
Recently, I watched this episode and recognized the desert in California. I live east of Sacramento and have traveled Hwy 395 maybe 6 times in 50 years. It's really an interesting drive with the quaint town of Bishop, and the beautiful snow-covered mountains with vast desert below. 👍
P.S. Our family moved from Ohio to San Bernardino in 1957, so I too remember the diners with excellent food, shakes, pies, juke boxes, souvenirs and candy bars. Great memories traveling in our new '57 Rambler station wagon. 💜
That nostalgia is cute - useless but cute. But it's also why I get a little wobbly whenever the Randy Newman song Our Town sung by James Taylor in Cars happens. 🚗
"These service stations were often run by WWII vets who could literally fix anything." That's a VERY good observation and makes complete sense. Never thought about that.....Thanks!
Rod Serling was way ahead of his time with brilliant stories like this one.Amazing to think about a possible time travel portal.
No kidding. It blows my mind to think this show was on when Bobby Soxers and Hops and drive ins were the norm. When you think of Happy Days or American Graffiti, it's hard to imagine this was the time of the Twilight Zone.
In the 60/70’s we drove up the 395 for our vacations in Yosemite every year. Never noticed the building back then, but I was a kid. I recognized the area when I watched reruns of The Twilight Zone. Good video
Hollywood has been filming in the Owens Valley since the 1920s. I was born just up the road in Lone Pine and grew up in Independence and Bishop. I remember my Dad working for the Inyo County Sheriff's office, worked security for the set of "Joe Kidd" filmed up in Buttermilk west of Bishop. Lots of TV commercials where filmed in the Eastern Sierra, CHP would close the road for the latest car commercial just about every summer. You should try and find the locations at Owenyo and Keeley where they filmed "Bad Day at Blackrock". If you look at "Gunga Din" 1939 and "Iron Man" 2008 both were filmed in the Alabama Hill by Lone Pine.
I love going to Bishop. Hope you had a great childhood growing up there.
So many westerns, Randolph Scott, Have Gun will Travel, etc there in the Alabama Hills. I watched an episod of HGWT filmed at Laws with Engine #9 rolling into the station there.
I think it was a perfect choice for a location shoot for this episode. How cool that the cafe is still there. Love this info. And I really like your new end graphic! Very cool!
Thanks so much Sally!
Thanks from sharing the location. This is one of the stand-out episodes of the Twilight Zone series. The story, cinematography, and casting are all exemplary and the story leads to an uplifting conclusion. It would be hard to ask to check more boxes for a half hour TV show. I believe this is my favorite episode.
Great find with that location. A few miles down that road would have been the Manzanar Japanese relocation camp from WW2. Thanks for the research.
The Manzanar camp is quite a ways north. 1 or maybe close to 2 hours.
@@EricCraig-km4sb Grant, if that is the Twilight Zone filming location we're seeing here, is only 35 miles, about a half-hour, south of the Manzanar historic site along US 395. Living in Los Angeles circa 2002 - 2008, I often drove through that area on weekend photo trips via Bishop, up through Silver Canyon's 4WD trail into the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, or, on other weekends, from Lone Pine to Death Valley NP. Lone Pine, on highway 395 only ten miles or so south of Manzanar and 25 miles from Grant, was my usual base of operations for those trips. That Twilight Zone episode is a favorite but never realized that was the filming location.
Very interesting! If you look carefully on google earth it looks like an old airstrip just to the west of the highway. Possibly an old WWll training field. Maybe why it’s called the Airflite cafe?
good catch!
Google "abandoned Airfields- Grants Airport is located west of the intersection of Route 395 & Cactus Flats Road
And in Google Maps , find Airflite Cafe US-395, Olancha, CA 93549😊
In the 80's it was temporarily used for training for night vision in helicopters.
Ancient runway?
I love when you're able to track down the actual filming locations and show it on Google maps/ earth. Like you did for the Green Acres begining scenes.
In high school, I had a writing class called The Twilight Zone. We would watch an entire episode, then write about it. It was so great and luckily, at the time, I was already a TZ aficionado, so it was a win win! Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Fort Hamilton HS. 1991.
Wow! that sounds amazing.
You had a creative and thoughtful teacher. Fantastic
Louis was in HS on Long Island 72-76 had an English teacher who had us read Shakespeare and Arthur Miller and others in class then do a book report or our reactions. I hated Shakespeare so I asked my teacher if I could do a book Felton a book I chose. Mrs. Nelson was ok with that if it meant I’d pick up another book and read it. She said what book are we talking about? I said I want to read and do a report on Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. She said that book is hardly 10 years old do you think it holds up against Shakespeare. I said it means more now than a 250 year old book does.
One of my favorite episodes! Yes please show more locations!
That building is in a variant of Art Deco known as "Streamline Moderne". It started in the early 1930s, and was popular throughout that entire decade. One of the most iconic buildings in that style was the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in LA.
Kind of reminds me of the 1990 film, "Tremors". Tremors was filmed in the same valley in Lone Pine and Darwin, CA, 25 minutes north of the Airflite Cafe location depicted in the Twilight Zone.Another interesting fact about this valley. Manzanar War Relocation Center, which was the internment camp for Japanese-Americans in World War II is 35 minutes north of this same location. If you see wartime pics of this camp, it had that same, stark look.
I live in Ridgecrest, and was a Blm archaeologists for a couple years. I drove by that site a number of times, but I did not connect it to the Twilight Zone. Thanks, and this was one my favorite episodes, along with King 9 will not return.
I was always wondering where this episode was shot. Having lived in Fallon, NV years ago, it reminded me of that area. Thank you for the informative information you produce on TH-cam.
Is the diner from the movie Casino where Pesci met De Niro anywhere near there?
Yes, I am another one who thought that was a an amazing episode and wondered where it was. Great job!
Drove many time on the 395… that mountain range is part of the Sierra Nevada range and not far from where this episode was filmed is Mt Whitney. Many movies and TV shows were filmed in this area.
Been on the 395 many times. Once you get past Cartago the drive gets real pretty especially in winter. Mammoth and Lake Tahoe the goal for snowboarding 😊
Good video. I have seen all of the Twilight Zone episodes multiple times.
Me too! I don’t remember some of them till I watch again! Another one of my favorite episodes!
Agree . Just finished the series..again. the time travel ones are my favs.
Rick this was a great vlog please do more filming locations
Near Lone Pine CA, hardly a surprise, tons of television and movies were made in the area. There's a movie history museum in Lone Pine that's worth a look. For example, they have (the last time I visited) the hero "Graboid" from _Tremors._
I personally like isolate filming locations. I enjoy looking up where movies were filmed. Like the Gilligans Island location is so weird.
I've been out that way, I have stayed in Fresno years ago and there's all sorts of lonely areas around. What doesn't make sense is this location is a fair distance from Hollywood. Normally location scouts need to keep within a defined distance from the studio. Mind you this may have been just prior to the union controls on Hollywood.
1955 Bad Day at Black Rock filmed in Owens Valley also.
Didn’t know where it was, but, I’m a Zone fan, thank u, for showing it.
Love your work! I used to spend hours pausing old episodes of Highway Patrol and Adam 12, etc. to try to figure out the filming locations and compare them to the images in Google maps to see what they look like today. If I could identify a restaurant, I'd always try to drive by and stop in for a meal if they were still around. It looks like I'm a little late for that Cafe but I'm happy to see where it is!
Me too! Acquired a book on Highway Patrol. Shows pictures of then and now.
Makes one wonder, "Where did all these people come from?"
Many of the old country scenes are nothing but rooftops now. 🤧
@@LesterMoore my so called pandemic project was to watch and find Highway Patrol filming locations not already listed on IMDb.
Love the tracking down of locations! Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed!
I love this Rick. I have driven this route through Grant a few times before and it just never clicked. Next time, I’ll really keep my eyes open when passing through.
Thanks Rick, this caught my eye because this episode was just on! I watch The Twilight Zone every night and I wondered where this was...very cool, appreciate your work, thanks again!
This is why I love your channel. Information that I'm always curious about. Thanks RN.
I appreciate that!
That was great! I love that show. I still watch it today. I also love seeing/finding filming locations. I grew up in LA so I have seen ALOT of actors in The Valley.
Keep going with this. I love to see old T.V. locations. How they looked then, and how they look now. Some that I've seen can be quite surprising. As this one was.
How cool! Thanks for sharing - have driven by this a few times but didn't realize this was the location for those two Twilight Zone episodes. Highway 395 is so nice to drive - I think near there you could veer east to Death Valley, too -
Every time I indulge myself in one of the Twilight Zone marathons they have on tv I am amazed how many of them I don’t remember. Seems like I thought I had seen them all but it’s refreshing to see one that is new to me…what a great show
This is one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone. Thank you for covering it. I will look for the previous video. SUBSCRIBED🌞
The Airlite Cafe does appear to be closer to Grant than Olancha. I submitted a correction on IMDb.
I would love to see more videos of Twilight Zone filming locations.
thanks, loooove the twilight zone know this one from start to finish, please keep up the good work.
Wow some big stars! Cliff Robertson, Ed Platt, and John Austin.
Got a good laugh when you were looking at the map and you said “This area is just surrounded by mountains and lakes”….. I defy you to find one lake! 😂
Owens Lake has water now
The dilapidated buildings on 395 remind me of the remnants of structures on the famous Route 66. Times gone by.
Ya all of us in Bishop already knew. We had movie stars everywhere when we were kids. Tons of shows being filmed here. Grandma was friends with "Cookie" who you see in so many westerns. Fished every lake, stream and river with her every summer. She passed away fishing not far from this spot. God bless my sweet Grandparents.
How fun, yes I enjoyed listening. 😊
Thanks for listening
Thanks for revisiting this episode. So much to talk about. In the last video about this episode a commenter gave the latitude and longitude of this place. I can’t believe how many times I’ve drove past this place and never knew. So many great actors were in the Twilight Zone series.
The Ridge episode is one of my favorites of the entire series. Thanks for sharing!
I drive by this every year when going backpacking in the eastern Sierras. It is a beautiful drive from San Diego. Always knew that this episode was filmed near Owens Lake, but didn't know the exact location or that the building still survived. Thanks!!!
Surprising that the station is still standing after all these years. I noticed the gas pumps with the info "CONTAINS LEAD." Watched this episode 3 or 4 months ago on a local station with late-night retro programming.
More of these videos , so interesting to see actual locations of shows
Love love the twilight zone. On holidays like new years eve Xmas I watch the twilight zone marathon. So cool. Love the old black and white episodes. The ones with William Shatner Billy mummy and the talking doll are such classics. Talking Tina. 😊
I really like seeing filming locations‼️
I've been watching The Twilight Zone since I was a kid when it first came out. I remember this one and the other episode that you mentioned. I have seen them all, many times. Loved This post. Thank You & Best Regards.
Interesting! Excellent job on "sleuthing"! This particular show has always been one of my favorite TZ episodes and I've watched it many times over the years. WikiPedia puts the original air date at April 7, 1961, which puts me at 4-years-old... I'm 67 now. It's just unreal how a life can get behind you. THANKS for this video! I'm subscribing after watching this and the previous one about which hat Cliff Robertson should have worn.
One of the best episodes
This was definitely my favorite Twilight Zone episode.
People definitely live behind that building... pulled up to the side of the Diner a couple years ago near sunset to relieve myself on the way up to Mammoth... had just finished and got yelled at and dogs started barking ! Ran back to my truck jumped in and hightailed out of there !😜
I just found your channel today and I love it. So I subscribed and I will watch your videos as they come out.
Welcome aboard!
Drove by there Monday...they have shot a bunch of TV/Movies up the 395 outside of Lone Pine in the Alabama Hills,so much so one of the access roads is Movie Flat Road.
Great !
Only thing , in your synopsis of rip van winkle, you mentioned that a bank was robbed. In reality,
It was a gold train.
Thanks for all your work. Kerry it up.
Very cool that you posted this. I was just in this area at the beginning of August on my way to Reno from San Bernardino. I remember the episode really well. Wish I would have known this while I was driving through...I would have stopped for a picture or two.
Love seeing "old vs. new" videos for movie shoots. Thanks for this.
Super cool. I always wondered where this and other Twilight Zones were filmed. Thanks for sharing.
One of my favorite episodes! TY! I driven past this part of Hwy 395 & never suspected that it had been used in this episode! Thank you again! I’m a new subscriber!
Wow! This was one of my favorite episodes of the Twilight Zone. I used to live off of 395 and used to go past this place going up to my Aunt's house. I remember this little cafe building, I want to say it was built during the late 1930s and, early 1940s before WW2. There used to be a lot of military traffic out there. Too bad the little town of Grant never really took off, not much of a going concern. It is still charming to look at this place again and imagine a more lucrative time.
I was a geology student in college and went through there all the time and had no idea. Thanks.
Road trip anyone? Not the same as years ago but still may be fun. 🙂
I’m tempted…
Not in August!
I've shown some of the episodes over the years to my students. This has always been a favorite.
I remember that episode and as a (retired) trucker I used to drive past this location many times without even realizing it. Thanks for the interesting video.
Super cool! The Cliff Robertson episode is a great one.
I've been there...love driving through the California desert!
I remember both episodes. The desolation was profound, thank you. I love seeing filming locations of all kinds.
Bridgeport, where Out of the Past was filmed is north of there. Lots of movies shot near there. And don't forget the history of the water diversion to LA.... think Muholland, Chinatown, St. Francis Dam disaster, and all that went around around Olancha. Lots of history out there.
Very FUN! Just north of this, is Lone Pine and up in Alabama Hills a lot of films have been made. But to find that very building was a kick!! !
it’s kind of crazy how this video came up on my feed. This happens to be my favorite episode of The Twilight Zone. I’m 53 years old, and I started watching The Twilight Zone at 12 years old. believe it or not. I’ve always wonder where this location was. I always figured it was in West Texas or arizona somewhere, I’m glad I ran into it. new subscriber!
Wow... Great detective work on this!! Very cool to see it today as well...Thanks!
I think it is interesting that it was a cafe with an airstrip behind it. (And I would have called the sign a "tail fin" on a plane instead of a shark fin.)
Thanks- this was more interesting than I thought it would be. Very informative.
Good job. I have traveled up 395 for many years now. Matter of fact I passed through Grant last weekend (August 17, 2024). The rock building on the west side opposite the diner was an old gas station and I remember it being open in the mid '70s. I never ever noticed the cafe as I always look at the old rock gas station whenever I pass by to see the shape and deterioration it is in after all the years. Next time I will be sure to check out the cafe.
Great job Rick! This type of thing could be a new sub-series for you.
Someone could turn it into a tourist location trap, like of like Port Merrion in Northern Wales is for The Prisoner.
It is amazing you found that location in such a remote place.
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I'm sure he gets most of his information from "The Twilight Zone Companion" by Marc Scott Zicree. That book mentions that the filming location was around Lone Pine, CA and that it was the same area where they filmed "The Rip Van Winkle Caper".
That was a fun video, Rick. I enjoy seeing filming locations like this. 👍
I drive this every time I fish/ski bishop area. I remember when we gassed up at that abandoned "76" station in the 70's. Wish area would regenerate. I miss the "ranch cafe" in olancha. We stopped there "just because" and they had indian fry bread.
Thank you for providing this video on a film location. You didn't mention it but Grant is west of and directly adjacent to Death Valley. H395 is an intriguing driving experience as it meanders along the Easter Sierra.
I remember catching this I’m one night on tv about 4 months ago. I love twilight zone. Waaaay ahead of its time. This was a good episode.
I just looked at the photos and could tell in was filmed on the road below the Eastern Sierra on HWY 395. I knew it when I was about 10 years old when it was first shown on the Twilight Zone. We used to travel on Hwy. 395 when I was a kid and my family was going camping in the Sierras. I've loved this episode for years.
In that old gas station, the owner had hundreds of arrowheads found just across the highway to the west. I did see them in about 1973 in frames all around the station office.
I used to drive past there a lot. I would backpack in the mountains and in the winter go skiing at Mammoth Mountain.
Thanks for highlighting this location. The 395 is a great desolate north-south drag on California's distal spine. A couple hours to Mammoth & Mono Lake, past the otherworldly Alabama Hills, majestic Mt. Whitney and the 4000 year old Bristlecone Pines. So isolated you can actually see the stars.
395 is a major highway. Lots of people from Los Angeles drive this route to get to the sierra mountains to ski,hike etc. very busy well traveled highway
I watched these episodes when I was kid,it is so cool that someone cares enough to look thies neat things up! Thanks.
As usual, very informative and explained clearly. Thanks Rick! Great job
That was one of my favorites too. Being a fan of The Twilight Zone there are some great ones.They made another one going forward in time. A WWl pilot in a biplane goes through a weird cloud and landed at an airbase in the future. I think filmed at Norton Air Base, San Bernardino? Also one of my favorites.
One of my favorite TZ episodes, I drive by this location once a year on the way to the Sierras.
The irony is that it was less deserted in the 1960's . But I recognized it immediately the first time I saw it. A gas station south of here was also used as a set in TV and movies. It was open last time I drove past selling olives.
I saw that episode as a rerun in 1963, when I was seven years old. I did wonder where it had been filmed, but assumed it was on the way towards Las Vegas, possibly San Jacinto. Thank you for going to the trouble to track it down.