Last Look Inside Warner Bros Ranch Before Demolition Begins- Historic Hollywood Backlot Walking Tour

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  • Last Look At Warner Bros Ranch
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  • @gavinelster3168
    @gavinelster3168 ปีที่แล้ว +720

    I lived in Burbank and have been working in film for 30+ years. Thank you for doing this. I moved just before they announced the ranch was being leveled. Thank you for documenting the final moments of what should have been designated a cultural and historic landmark. I’m crying watching this. So many memories are now just memories.

    • @zuzuspetals9281
      @zuzuspetals9281 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      It’s sad to see the progress that isn’t really progress take away not only our memories but also the incredible quality work that used to be put into the film and television industry. Those of us who are older know that CGI can’t replace actual facades that resemble real buildings or real people so soon will only be watching classic films and television series.

    • @MarkLyonOHIO
      @MarkLyonOHIO ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What made them decide to level it

    • @anothercheryladventure9387
      @anothercheryladventure9387 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah landmark. What are they putting there now?

    • @anothercheryladventure9387
      @anothercheryladventure9387 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I loved the movie about going to White Castle in New Jersey. South Jersey more specific and there is mountains all around. And Honey it’s all flat ground around here. Part of the name of the movie was “” “” and kumar go to White Castle” cult movie. Had to laugh seeing the mountains 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

    • @Michael-xc5ib
      @Michael-xc5ib ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sad are they going to donate fixtures cupboards lots of stuff can be repurposed

  • @KJ-tz7vc
    @KJ-tz7vc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +185

    The fact that the Griswold house is being torn down drives homes the sadness of this demolition for me. Christmas Vacation is one of my favorite films and I picture that house in my head like it's somewhere I grew up. Thanks for the last look, Adam.

    • @thedbcooperforum
      @thedbcooperforum 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's now all just a memory...nothing but dirt fills the spots...RIP..

    • @-Katastrophe
      @-Katastrophe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's a real shame, though judging by the condition of the roof it would cost an absolute fortune to fix it and make it at all usable (if you wanted to move it, past tense of course)

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the "house" was sets that were demolished or recycled long before the movie even came out.

    • @thedbcooperforum
      @thedbcooperforum 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alex0589 interior shots, yes..the exterior house is in the video..what makes you think it's not the house in the video?????

    • @KJ-tz7vc
      @KJ-tz7vc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@alex0589 The exterior still played a big role in the movie, like when Clark was decorating the house.

  • @missellie6581
    @missellie6581 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Funny how we become emotionally attached to what we watched on TV and in the movies. For most of us it represents a time in our lives when we felt happiness and comfort. I know it does for me. Thank you for this. Good memories flowing through 😊

    • @time4807
      @time4807 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's called mind control. ;)

  • @eicrusade6161
    @eicrusade6161 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    I hate the loss of history. It's happening everywhere it seems. Thanks for one of the last looks.

    • @thedbcooperforum
      @thedbcooperforum 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's all gone now....RIP

    • @GoldBug78
      @GoldBug78 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you are SO right!!!!!! It seems that this happens all over the world. They want to destroy the past

  • @IncredibleMrWrite
    @IncredibleMrWrite ปีที่แล้ว +282

    I used to work as a security officer for Warner Bros and had many great experiences on the Warner Ranch and main studio lot. If they are indeed tearing this all down, it’s a tragic loss of film and television history. Thanks for posting this video and bringing back some great memories!

    • @SunLightFawn
      @SunLightFawn ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is so cool! The swimming pool still looks good > probably some of the crew are using it ;-)
      I'm sure they'll save certain memory item's, but a lot of those building's are falling apart, etc.,
      and it would be awesome if they also built high tech movie building's! I think I saw a shadow in one
      of the window's, too!? a bit spooky...

    • @IncredibleMrWrite
      @IncredibleMrWrite ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@SunLightFawn I wouldn’t be surprised if the pool gets some “extracurricular” use. When I worked there, it always looked clean and camera-ready. I agree, the place definitely could use some updated facilities. It was looking a little worse for wear, even back during my time there. No doubt, they’ll keep some special items in the archives. As for potential ghost sightings? The place does have some stories! I’ve got a couple of my own I could tell! Maybe in a future podcast one day! 😉

    • @sandrasanders706
      @sandrasanders706 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I've heard that WB lot and soundstages have a massive vermon problem?? How true is that?

    • @IncredibleMrWrite
      @IncredibleMrWrite ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@sandrasanders706 back in the early days of the studio, most definitely. The only issue I ever noticed was with raccoons on the backlot. There were plenty of feral studio cats (descendants of those demanded by James Cagney) to keep the smaller pests at bay.

    • @Glim246
      @Glim246 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@IncredibleMrWrite Thanks for that comment about James Cagney. I'm a huge fan and have read his autobiography but never heard that little tidbit. I just looked it up and found the rescue group Cats at the Studios who have been taking care of those cats and many more over the years. Really interesting history.

  • @williampalmer8052
    @williampalmer8052 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Things like this really bring home the fact that we're witnessing the ending of all the things that made up the 20th century. In this case, it's the the way entertainment was once filmed, and it brings to mind the things that happened every day on sets like this, and the life that filled its streets. The stories that were told here, and the memories that brought us all together. If whatever follows turns out to be better, most of us will never know, but as these memories recede it's hard to see any improvements appearing on the horizon.

    • @leonardothefabulous3490
      @leonardothefabulous3490 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      NOTHING that "follows" will be better. The horizon only has remakes and redos of the Greatness that once was-in all aspects of art (and most of Life).

    • @gottasay4766
      @gottasay4766 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@leonardothefabulous3490how do you know? Every generation seems to thinks theirs is the best. What a narrow way of thinking.

    • @leonardodalongisland
      @leonardodalongisland 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@gottasay4766 How's it narrow if, "every generation" does it? That seems pretty "wide"???

    • @jett888
      @jett888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Including humanity

    • @steveanacorteswa3979
      @steveanacorteswa3979 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did some work in Hollywood for a Post Production studio in the 80s, they did Playboy at Night there, the first state of the art green screen synced to the cameras , it's gone way beyond that and now everything is the stupid reality tv style, people are really brain dead now

  • @mikeagresta
    @mikeagresta 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I’ve been an employee of Warner Brothers for 12 years, thank you documenting the Ranch. I have many great memories from working there. I thought they would move the facades and preserve movie history. But I guess that’s not going to happen. It’s sad 😢

    • @estelalopez3563
      @estelalopez3563 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about the old houses from 1800 ? Big companies destroyed them in 1950

    • @delaville680
      @delaville680 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Everything that represents tradition, is being erased.

  • @andymentzer
    @andymentzer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks so much for this video. I worked on that block for the movie "Pleasantville" in 1997. I was the paint Gang boss and was charge of anything shot on that block. I had the best time on that show. If things got too crazy, Id head over to the Bewitched house, sit on the front porch and say" Sam, get me a drink. Is your mother here?...make it a double"

  • @valmor1073
    @valmor1073 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Sad to see historical places demolished.Adam is a great tour guide with his knowledge of what was filmed where.Great job!

    • @gerrydooley951
      @gerrydooley951 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not really, he's pretty misinformed actually. A lot of what he's saying is incorrect

    • @bobbyroush3511
      @bobbyroush3511 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gerrydooley951 like what? I’m curious

    • @retrounderground1
      @retrounderground1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was reading it off a map!

    • @UberLummox
      @UberLummox ปีที่แล้ว

      @@retrounderground1 Which was helpful to me. What was incorrect? I was left wishing for a more comprehensive list of show per building, howevererer.
      Like the green house lookd like the 1st house used in Leave it to Beaver, but dunno if that was filmed @ WB.

    • @UberLummox
      @UberLummox ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gerrydooley951 Yeah like what? He knew a helluva lot more than I do about it all, that's for sure.

  • @mercenarygrip
    @mercenarygrip 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I worked for years on the WB ranch filming Living Single, The Wayans Bros., & various feature films & commercials. It breaks my heart that they're tearing all this history down. It's just like when MGM tore down Lot 2 & sold it off to build crappy houses. I grew up across the street from MGM & used to play on Lot 2 with my friends, mainly 'hide & seek' from security. Just a damn shame.

    • @Anth230
      @Anth230 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If you really worked there for years you should understand why they need to come down now....

    • @puccipower
      @puccipower 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Love that memory! Kind of reminds me of a book or something.

    • @spiritwalker-nv7dp
      @spiritwalker-nv7dp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was also as the park Samantha walked Tabitha.

    • @spiritwalker-nv7dp
      @spiritwalker-nv7dp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was used on Bewitched too. The pool.

    • @spiritwalker-nv7dp
      @spiritwalker-nv7dp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Doves

  • @Kelly-tj8xv
    @Kelly-tj8xv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I loved how Hazel leaves her house in Mr B's car, and as she gets in, you can see the Bewitched house next door. Then off Hazel goes to the hospital, and she's driving, and gets pulled over by the cops as she was speeding, I think, and you can see the Bewitched house again. LOL. Even though she's 'heading to the hospital', you can see she just drove around the park.

  • @denisematthews6215
    @denisematthews6215 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    You are not alone in your fascination with film houses, sets, props, cars and locations! Film is bigger than life! It preserves a scene , a line of dialogue, an actor for generations.
    The wow factor is definitely not lost on me, for one, Adam! As long as you have the ability and means, keep them coming! We appreciate you!

    • @darinvint4495
      @darinvint4495 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bigger than life???? Great thing but bigger than life? No NOT bigger than life

    • @ydne
      @ydne ปีที่แล้ว

      The art of film includes locations. Thus, are not the locations art? .... (I check out the flood of deals in Malibu before setting in the bulldozers for more over priced housing, if I were the studio and it isn't too late.) ... LA can always use more things to occupy tourists and locals babysitting their tourists.

    • @jleedw
      @jleedw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You keep talking about Wandavision. I have no idea what that is.

    • @richardswinbusk7787
      @richardswinbusk7787 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I remember a post on the Warner Brothers studios The brick was made of Styrofoam, chicken wire and plaster The reason they didn't use real brick was because it would be too heavy to build and if they had to tear it down They also painted from the left for a light source usually on scenic backdrops with buildings Thanks for this terriffic post Adam So sad these classic shells are being razed

  • @lthomas63
    @lthomas63 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Thanks for the tour, I worked at Warner Brothers security from 1985 to 1998 and spent many hours at the ranch driving around in the security golf cart bicycles and on foot. Not too much is changed but it was certainly nice seeing it from another person’s viewpoint. I worked there when lethal weapon was films and used to receive calls at 2 o’clock in the morning because the helicopters were flying around for the fight scene at the house. As well as one Christmas vacation was shot there and we got calls from as far as 3 miles away complaining about the bright lights. They were coming off the top of the Griswold house.

    • @Itsaboutthewaterlife
      @Itsaboutthewaterlife 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Great memory.

    • @tom_reagan
      @tom_reagan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Locals complaining about the Griswold house lights means everything to me. 😂

    • @cruzin7661
      @cruzin7661 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BEST COMMENT EVER!!! Thank you for sharing this with us 😂

    • @oldguysrock2170
      @oldguysrock2170 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was a Burbank Police Officer who actually wrote the “disturbing the peace” complaint over the Lethal Weapon late night filming! It was surreal as the ground was soaking wet from the staged fire hydrant shooting up in the air, the helicopters flying low with the night sun illuminating everything, actors in cop uniforms, and a soaking wet Gary Busy. It was all resolved when the studios put the night sun on a tall crane instead of using actual helicopters. I do remember the neighbors in the area were pissed!

  • @cindysandino6769
    @cindysandino6769 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I am a background actor and had a fitting at the Ranch a couple of years ago, and before I left the lot, I walked everywhere you are filming. I feel exactly the way you do about how special it all is and was. It was a dream of a lifetime of mine to walk those streets. Thank you for filming this. I can't believe it will all be gone. Should be an historical landmark. Universal did the same thing.

  • @awol116
    @awol116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Well done, Adam, for doing this and your previous visit to the Warner Bros. Burbank Ranch. Like you I am a location fanatic (mostly westerns), but English living in England.
    This is another kick in the gut. Laramie Street on the Warner Studio backlot was torn down in 2003, the Western Street destroyed by fire, 1983. Paramount Studios backlot Western Street bulldozed 1979, their Ranch, fire 2018. And now this. Although as far as I’m concerned, is really the second and final stage of destruction. Columbia purchased the land in 1934. There were 2 Western Streets over by Pass Avenue that lasted until 1993. Small section maybe, but that was the heart taken out of it. So think Charles Starrett and ‘High Noon’. Great crane shot of Cooper - with Warner stages in the background.
    Visiting Southern California for a week in 1995, I did get a lot in. Mostly gleaned from books as this was before the internet proper. Iverson, Lone Ranger rock, Chatsworth etc., but no studio visits. Lone Pine, Vasquez and best of all Melody Ranch, Newhall. Impromptu visit, but the Veluzat brothers very kindly showed me round. No photos, though. I could have been a spy. Hooray for them and Uncle Carl of Universal. He loved his westerns - and the street's still there. Managed a reasonable shot of the Disney Ranch western town from the road. Now also gone. Watching so many westerns as a kid, it felt like I grew up around here.
    Oh, and Old Tuscon burned down a few months before my visit.
    Also love your back roads, small towns and ghost towns videos.
    All the very best. 🤠

  • @CaryUSA2007
    @CaryUSA2007 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    1164 Morning Glory Circle (the Bewitched house) was like a second home to me. I know it was just a façade, but still heartbreaking to see all this entertainment history be wiped away. Thanks Adam, for returning to Warner Bros Ranch again and giving us one last look at our favorite place from the movies and TV. I'm grateful to have the full Bewitched series on DVD so I can still go "home" whenever I want, but still hard to imagine all those wonderful old buildings just being destroyed. ☹

    • @josephforest7605
      @josephforest7605 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I am sad because I wanted to see it ,feel bad when I flew to Cal to see Johnny Carson and his show was cancelled . The Bewitched House is reverse copy of a home in L.A. ,so if it's any consolation , you can still see the original .

    • @terryw7683
      @terryw7683 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I remember in one episode of Bewitched Daren went running outside for some reason. In that scene you get a great overview of the lot with that mountain in the background. Unmistakable.

    • @johnkeating362
      @johnkeating362 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@terryw7683 , the realistic mountains of New York. In another scene, Darrin’s parents are driving in a convertible and you can see palm trees behind them. LOL.

  • @MrPants1970
    @MrPants1970 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    It’s amazing how these back lots are used over and over in different films, but I have never noticed, all the streets see unique in each film.

    • @patriotmom9053
      @patriotmom9053 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The book case in the fake burdens basement scene has been used in other fake scenes.

  • @craigfazekas3923
    @craigfazekas3923 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When watching shows like Adam-12 as a kid ? I used to crack up noticing the extremely CLEAR deliniation between the on-location shots & the studio lot (Universal ?) shot scenes.
    They were truly obvious- enough to make an 8 year old even tell the difference.....
    Welp, thanks for taking us along & for the memories, chief !!
    🚬😎👍

  • @jwalk318
    @jwalk318 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I’m so glad you filmed this. They should really keep this as a tourist attraction. LA seems to be losing its appeal as it is and it’s only going to go down without these historic places that embody movie/tv magic from the past. The younger generation seems to be even more fascinated by relics of the past and have a real appreciation for it. They’ve grown up in modern suburbia where literally everything looks identical and the landscape is nothing but boring and complete lack of stimulation in your surroundings drains dopamine & serotonin. People become desperate for things such as this as a “fix”. The older generation has no idea what they’re wasting! Of course they’re prioritizing money over nostalgia. That’s what they’ve been raised & trained to do. What they’re not understanding is that there’s going to be a lot of money in nostalgia. There already is. And it’s only going to steadily move more in that direction when there’s so few relics of the past left to explore and experience. I get that they figure the land has more value utilizing it for new sound stages. I know little to nothing about real estate, but maybe buy up a “neighborhood” full of some crappy, hideous new build homes early 2000 era no one will buy because the only way to update them is for them to be fully gutted not to mention they start to fall apart immediately after being thrown up as quickly and cheaply as possible and after five years to a decade they’re ready to be condemned. Lol, yet it’s actually true. I mean, who in their right mind thought the garage should jut out hideously as a focal point for curb appeal!? Zero privacy homes. Only two to four feet away from each other. Basically town houses that cost more because they’re not literally attached? Lol. Your windows look directly into your neighbour’s identical house or pathetic yard likely smaller than your bedroom. So kids live their entire lives mostly inside. Sorry, I just despise these houses going up everywhere. With a passion. Anyway maybe build the sound stages there? Over top of those hideous monstrosities no one wants anymore as it is. And turn this historic site into a tourist attraction park, as well as an occasional filming site when they want an authentic look and feel for the past in a show/movie. Because CGI just doesn’t do it. It really doesn’t. I thought it creatively fitting that you ended this little blast from the past with a shot of your car mirror and that warning “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” which is so familiar to most of us who were kids before that completely disappeared from mirrors eventually. That in itself caught a moment of nostalgia. Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to explore WB ranch with you before it’s destroyed.

    • @Art-is-craft
      @Art-is-craft 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just cannot see it doing enough business for visitors. They would have been better making movies with it.

  • @gabrielhalston6726
    @gabrielhalston6726 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Truly breaks my heart to hear that the WB Ranch Backlot (old Columbia) will be gone. TV shows like "Father Knows Best", "Hazel", "The Donna Reed Show" and others....I can still visualize the houses used in these shows. Another piece of my childhood gone with the wind. Great video.

    • @steveanacorteswa3979
      @steveanacorteswa3979 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Used to come home from school, turn on the B&W TV and watch Hazel and The beav

  • @donw3912
    @donw3912 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    A heartbreaking tragic loss....as a kid I was glued to the TV watching The Partridge family and Bewitched...in the later 70s it was Fridays and The Dukes of Hazzard which I didn't see anything that looked familiar from that show.
    Over filming a soon to be demo site...not a chance...thanks so very much for doing this!!
    It really is a shame some of those huge old trees can't be worked into their new vision.
    I bet they could sell some parts of the sets to fans of the various productions too if they wanted.

  • @MrWolfSnack
    @MrWolfSnack 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    the amount of age and natural decay the sets had make them feel like an actual real neighborhood. they aged just like real houses were because they were built the same as a real house even though it was only a prop house. the attention to detail in road planning and street layout was also right on the money - it was one of the most well-built live sets of human history let alone movie history.

  • @djsi38t
    @djsi38t 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I can really appreciate this kind of thing because I really miss the old hollywood and really think its such a shame when places like this go away.The MGM Backlot comes to mind so places like this,it is just fantastic that you can document what it looks like for future generations.

  • @nancybrewer5778
    @nancybrewer5778 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Hollywood is the worst in preserving its own history! Just heartbreaking! Thanks from the bottom of Hollywood lovers’ hearts to you, Adam, and other TH-cam vloggers who seem to be the only historians interested in documenting this timeless history that will be lost forever! Ironic this is happening after WB’s 100 year anniversary!

    • @ltldxy71
      @ltldxy71 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That’s true. They have been terrible about preserving their own history. I have a HS friend who’s dad was the local TV news movie reviewer when we were kids. He had an enormous collection of old film reels in his basement (like early 20th century). Idk what happened to them when he passed, but I know he was saving them because nobody else was. So sad!

    • @cruzin7661
      @cruzin7661 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Saw one story of how someone is painstakingly preserving all the backdrops found rotting in some storage facility, ready to be destroyed.
      And yet this guy is walking through actual film history and they are going to tear it down like nothing.

    • @jett888
      @jett888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You had me at "Worst"
      Hollywood is the worst ( for predictive programming and social engineering.)

    • @jett888
      @jett888 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ltldxy71 probably in the same location as the directions on how to get to the Moon ( Stanley Kubrick)

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Isn’t Hollywood’s legacy all preserved in celluloid?

  • @aseainfo
    @aseainfo ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I think this episode might go down as one of the best on the channel. YEARS from now people will search for this video on youtube to see what the WB ranch once looked like. SO AWESOME that you got to do this.

    • @TheDailyWoo
      @TheDailyWoo  ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I hope so . Glad I was able to document it

    • @kathryncargill3015
      @kathryncargill3015 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Believe this IS one of his best. Really enjoyable to watch

    • @markc3258
      @markc3258 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheDailyWooThis is an iconic video ..
      Your best so far and will be viewed forever..
      You videoed history .
      It’s the equivalent of the MGM 1972 auction video on yt ..
      back lot history
      Thanks 🙏

    • @pmccoy8924
      @pmccoy8924 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Google Maps also has this archived for street view I would assume.

    • @tiggy4750
      @tiggy4750 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheDailyWoo Hello, I have read that the Gidget movies were filmed on real beaches, so why would they fill a movie lot with water? Thankyou x

  • @shqa574
    @shqa574 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    When I worked at Warners in the 1990s, I might have passed the Warner Branch a few times. I never went inside, because it was offlimits to company employees. I am surprised that they are not putting up multi-million dollar homes or condominiums in its place. That is a huge piece of land.

  • @ricklatouch2263
    @ricklatouch2263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well done. Reminiscent of a recent trip through many of the old Route 66 “ghost towns” in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma ant Texas. Memories gone.

  • @jimvinespresents...8463
    @jimvinespresents...8463 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    I worked for the Warner Bros. security department many moons ago and spent a number of weekend shifts at the ranch location. It was the graveyard shift, so I had the entire place to myself much of the time (though I worked with one other security officer). The coolest thing--at least for me--was seeing the house used in THE OMEGA MAN. But the place certainly has a fine history. Sad to see it go.

    • @CPMest81
      @CPMest81 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What a great experience that must have been!

    • @sammyday3341
      @sammyday3341 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What a great movie.

    • @clairdelunefan
      @clairdelunefan ปีที่แล้ว +4

      jim ~ Did you ever encounter trouble on your shift? Like people sneaking in to steal pieces of memorabilia or perhaps to vandalize? Or was it nice and quiet most of the time?

    • @jimvinespresents...8463
      @jimvinespresents...8463 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CPMest81 Oh yes, definitely!

    • @americantoycoon9206
      @americantoycoon9206 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was a security guard at Universal Studios in the 1980's. I guarded so many sets including, "Psycho II", "Doctor Detroit", and "Scarface". It was an incredible experience for me, a big movie buff.

  • @HunterMann
    @HunterMann ปีที่แล้ว +260

    Some of my work during🎉 over three decades in the motion picture industry, was working as a location scout. It’s gotten to where more and more things were not shot on location they were shot in backlots.
    Now the fact that this is being torn down and they will be building soundstages…
    what that tells me is that they will be doing a lot more green-screen and then they will just use virtual locations. That way they can re-create any city or small town backdrop for a movie or TV show. Simply fill in the foreground with a little bit of set dressing and a bunch of props and a few picture cars and potted trees and they have saved a huge amount of money by not having to go outside to do it. Beyond location scouting I did a lot of work in the camera department, sound, grip & lighting, special effects etc. I always preferred working on location and available time on soundstages. But I could see over the years that more and more things were moving to controlled sets, less problems with sound issues, easier to control the lighting, easier to control the budget by having people basically just show up and work a 10 hour shift like they’re at a factory. A lot of the soul is missing from the process but for most people it’s about the money. For me it was always much more career than it was employment, big difference. I was part of a small group of people who only worked in film production but most of us had a real passion for going to the cinema and we spend a lot of our free time going to film festivals to see a new commercial films, independent films, documentaries etc. it is, indeed hard for me to see so many cinemas closing so many back lots and the shift towards digitally produced backgrounds, and in the end just a cheaper version of the entertainment product. Sadly it’s always much more the business of filmmaking rather than the art of filmmaking. Rather sad actually.

    • @leonardothefabulous3490
      @leonardothefabulous3490 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Video killed the radio star and computers killed Films. I'm with you on this brother.

    • @JA-vv8wy
      @JA-vv8wy ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you for your insights because when he said the sets were being replaced with sound stages, I was like “why would they need sound stages?” You explained it and it makes sense.

    • @nonelost1
      @nonelost1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      OK, you well explained why they are gonna mow this down. Bully to you for documenting this before they "Toro-ize" it. I could not imagine the alternative of shooting residential neighborhood scenes "on location" and all that would entail (permits, security, etc.) or even renting backlots from competing studios. I guess their beancounters figured out they could make more $$$ from those new sound stages than turning that old backlot into a tourist attraction, while still using it as a controlled space studio backlot.

    • @jonathansabinvarietyfilms
      @jonathansabinvarietyfilms ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And now that extreme and constant shallow depth of field has been normalized it's easier to blur fake backgrounds and look quote unquote pro.

    • @leonardothefabulous3490
      @leonardothefabulous3490 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jonathansabinvarietyfilms GREAT to hear a younger person aware of that!!

  • @bhbecca
    @bhbecca 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I lived across the street for three years. Very sad, but at least it remains a studio. They need the sound-stages-- they shoot on location now, so these type of sets are not used enough to be viable. I don't know if you're aware, but the shopping center that abuts the studio was all part of the original ranch facility. They sold off part of the land when the studio was having financial trouble. The city would never allow them or any other studio to develop their land for commercial uses today. Universal tried to develop their backlot into thousands of condos and the people who live in Toluca Lake went crazy-- the city was forced to say no. Universal is now developing that part of the backlot off Cahuenga that was used for all of the Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf horror films into massive state of the art sound-stages.

  • @maxinefreeman8858
    @maxinefreeman8858 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My daughter and family have just returned from touring Ireland and London. They didn't go with a group. She's a great photographer. She posted pictures of 700 year old buildings. She mentioned that Americans think a house built in the 80's is old. She used to work as a realtor.

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She is right. But it depends on area. Here in the midwest we have a lot of houses from the wild west and settler days still standing. In the suburbs you see 50s-70s. Newer suburbs 80s. 90s, 00s.

  • @mpetrie8064
    @mpetrie8064 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The Partridge family house is the grandma’s house in Young Sheldon. In the season finale, there was a tornado and it destroyed her house. I was able to match up with the house to the left and the trees in the background. 😊 Thank you!

    • @Hamsalad2
      @Hamsalad2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw the church in the background.

    • @retrounderground1
      @retrounderground1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm assuming the dead tree near the remains of Meemaw's house is really still alive and was stripped of its leaves for the tornado aftermath scene of Young Sheldon which recently aired in May 2023. That house was just razed in April 2023 and you saw the back of it was still standing. Adam didn't seem to be aware of any of this.

    • @josephforest7605
      @josephforest7605 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also I think it was the first house on Leave it to Beaver , before they moved to The Marcus Welby House .

  • @1111makala
    @1111makala ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This brings back memories. My father was a carpenter/prop maker there in the '60s, before going to work at Universal. In '68 when I was 5 I was there for the yearly Columbia picnic for family members of employees. Elizabeth Montgomery and Sally Field were there mixing with us and signing autographs. Still have the home movis and pics my dad took that day. I have hazy memories of being there.

    • @ct6852
      @ct6852 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sally Field seems super down to earth. Cool that you got to meet her.

    • @ChristhirtythreeAD
      @ChristhirtythreeAD ปีที่แล้ว +4

      wow! That's amazing! You should share the home movies of that. Incredible history!

    • @Mark-lq3sb
      @Mark-lq3sb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would have had a hard time not hitting on Elizabeth Montgomery (insert wolf whistle here!)
      Although, in 1968 I was only 9 years old, LOL!

  • @masterofjustice88
    @masterofjustice88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is an awesome video. Thanks for sharing, Adam. You mention something about how not everyone is as into movie sets/filming locations- but I'm right there with you and love them. I'm glad this was created by someone like you who truly appreciates it.

  • @user-sv2ci7ff1q
    @user-sv2ci7ff1q 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Adam, thank you so much for bringing us all on the tour. Really great to see everything. Brings back memories from films. Very good video. Much appreciated.

  • @ATalkingBadger
    @ATalkingBadger ปีที่แล้ว +1302

    I hate how so many big corporations don't care about preserving history and will just erase it like that.

    • @AltGrendel
      @AltGrendel ปีที่แล้ว +124

      It’s alll about money.

    • @dtna
      @dtna ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Land in L.A. is so precious now. The only backlots left now are in the northwest valley. The Walt Disney backlot is still there.

    • @Jay-wk9xj
      @Jay-wk9xj ปีที่แล้ว +105

      It was built to be used and discarded.. it's literally fulfilling its destiny.

    • @Michelle.smiles
      @Michelle.smiles ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I agree with you ATalkingBadger, So much of history is being lost to money.
      3:36 3:59

    • @RustburgMike
      @RustburgMike ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Business, nothing more or less.

  • @arri275555
    @arri275555 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I started working in the industry in the early 2000s and my first gig was an office production assistant for several WB Television shows. Our offices and sound stages were located on the ranch. We filmed several episodes on Blondie Street and also the main lot. We filmed at the Lethal Weapon, Small Soldiers and The Waltons house. We also filmed at the gas station. The food at the grill was actually pretty good. I use to order food from there a lot because it saved time. Our offices were located near the transportation grid. They were the brown buildings in the parking lot area behind the Partridge family house. The pool was also used too film a few scenes of Collateral Damage. I remember because I walked on the set. Granted I was not on this production, but I really wanted to see Arnold. It was awesome. So many wonderful memories on the ranch. It really hurts to see it go.

  • @ss442es
    @ss442es 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am from Redding in Northern California and started in construction. These sets were well built it appears and maintained to stand the test of time. Thanks for the ride.

  • @roberteshaw9520
    @roberteshaw9520 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for your hard work Adam.For this old geezer, a lot of memories. The whole property is for me, truly a surreal backdrop.

  • @bobs152
    @bobs152 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What a great episode. When I was a young man in the 60's, my uncle was the head of the prop department at Fox. I would spend my summers with him on the lot of many studios. I got to meet so many stars of the time. great memories...

  • @karenkingrey6142
    @karenkingrey6142 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I know I’m being slightly dramatic, but man some of these houses/facades are part of my history too, not just the suits that are making the decision to get rid of them. Bewitched & Partridge Family…man that was my childhood! And then the Middle!! I loved that show so much!
    Thank you so much for taking the time to film these places! It was amazing to get a behind the scenes glimpse at things most of us would never be able to see!!

  • @TiaCatR
    @TiaCatR ปีที่แล้ว +104

    This is such a shame. The ranch should not be torn down. Too bad they couldn't keep it as a museum. So much Hollywood history! Thanks for taking us along, Adam!

    • @thomasschreiber9559
      @thomasschreiber9559 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Seems like they would want to keep using it, proven so useful.

    • @andrewbaker4896
      @andrewbaker4896 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The amount of work and money that would need to be done to make the property usable wouldn’t be worth it,it’s being replaced with newer production facilities

    • @uuuultra
      @uuuultra ปีที่แล้ว +6

      movies will be all CGI and a.i. now so they don't need actual buildings

    • @bettyahlheitt8812
      @bettyahlheitt8812 ปีที่แล้ว

      no history grow up

    • @Anth230
      @Anth230 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@thomasschreiber9559 it used to be very usable. But now it can be more usable with new digital sound stages that can create backgrounds that look just as realistic as the real things but changed on a whim. These facades have outlived their usefulness....it's sad but from a money standpoint it doesn't work anymore...

  • @jgarciag9740
    @jgarciag9740 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! Thank you for taking us with you!

  • @julieshepherd5989
    @julieshepherd5989 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome tour, thanks for sharing. 😊🌻💗

  • @filmeserienundstars
    @filmeserienundstars ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Sad: The American entertainment industry, which is mostly unimaginative these days, destroys such treasures. It's not only sad, it's also tragic. The film fans in Germany mourn with you! 😢😢😢 Thank you very much for this great video!

    • @blacksunshine1089
      @blacksunshine1089 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sadly, it’s all about appealing to the broadest audience possible, and tiptoeing around people’s “sensitivities”.

    • @estelalopez3563
      @estelalopez3563 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This happened in 1960 they destroyed old stuff from 1800

  • @CaelJones
    @CaelJones ปีที่แล้ว +198

    As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I recognized⅚ almost every single movie, television show, and building that you featured in this video. I would like to thank you for taking the time to film this and point out all the history. It is very sad to see the place where so many dreams, wonderful childhood memories, and adult nostalgia were created and divined out of the ether and forged into a perceived reality. It gives me mixed feelings to see all these places, that until now were reality in my mind. Now, seeing their true nature in reality and not through the camera's eye puts into perspective the temporary nature of our existence. Seeing this world of illusion as it really is makes me feel proud to have been a part of that time, but it also gives me a feeling of loss, as the illusion of its reality is exposed. Last but not least, it deeply saddens me to learn that this piece of history that represents the unique time that it came from will soon be erased and disposed of like a worn-out old shoe... but as George Harrison said, "All things must pass."
    Sad, but true.
    Thank you again for taking the time to document this complex piece of our collective lives and time.

    • @soupwifey
      @soupwifey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Ah yes. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I watched the shows there that were filmed in the 50s and 60s. Thanks to a little old thing called cable TV. Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network channels played all the classic shows. It's so sad that they just don't fix the studio neighborhood and make it a museum. I'd fly to California and take a tour 💯 %.

    • @c.m.169
      @c.m.169 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s and am glad I got to see this before they're gone. I loved Hazel and Gidget and Bewitched and Partridge Family (wish I saw the house before they started tearing it down) and The Flying Nun - still have my Flying Nun bubble gum cards and my Monkeys cards too. All the TV shows and movies. Loved seeing where the toilet in Lethal Weapon exploded. Loved seeing where the Gidget Beach scenes were. Batman and Wild Wild West and Waltons and Gremlins and Griswalds and the animation studios, all so special. Some of todays movies and TV shows I'm not familiar with, so I can't relate to them, but all the ones from the 80s and before I lknow of, not so much after that. Friends in the 90s I know. So sad that they aren't keeping all this history. They could even gives tours, like the other studios. It would mean so much to so many people. It's nostalgia, a very important part of our American entertainment history. Should be preserved.

    • @mommashawna707
      @mommashawna707 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@c.m.169I would watch the Monkees every single day since I was watching it as a rerun but I was obsessed and I was obsessed with Davy. My mom and dad that are both gone now would make fun of me even when the songs would come on the radio later in life.

    • @GrantTarredus
      @GrantTarredus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You write beautifully. Which - not incidentally - indicates that you’ve read a great deal. Cheers!

    • @colleen6890
      @colleen6890 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So many uses for these buildings

  • @btoonbtoon
    @btoonbtoon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh man!!...I knew this day was coming. I had the pleasure to work at this location for years as Warner Bros. Animation was located on the WB Ranch for a number of years. Gonna miss all the History that was the heritage of this particular location. Lot's of fond memories. Thank you so much for this amazing video!!

  • @nancydelarosa5459
    @nancydelarosa5459 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OH MY GOSH!!!!! I love this. Thank you so much for sharing.

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    I am glad you are documenting this - I hope there are more being done! It is absolutely criminal that this only with history is being destroyed. I realize of course it’s a huge amount of land to leave undeveloped, but it still drives me crazy.

    • @baylorsailor
      @baylorsailor ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It would make a great interactive museum. Considering their present-day movies aren't doing so well maybe they can look for money in a different way, like investing in a massive museum.

    • @uv77mc85
      @uv77mc85 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      America doesn't seem to care about history. Cray really.

    • @gsmith6026
      @gsmith6026 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ⁠@@baylorsailorMovies these days are crap. So many remakes that aren’t even close to being as good as the original. TV series are mostly garbage also. I watch the old movies and TV series. Even Disney has gone to crap.

  • @disneydreamer98
    @disneydreamer98 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This hurts my heart. I’m so glad you were granted another visit and able to share with us Adam. I just watched this vlog twice back to back and I’m just so sad that this is all going to be gone soon.😢

    • @disneydreamer98
      @disneydreamer98 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also- if you haven’t watched the show Animal Kingdom, it was a fantastic series!

    • @sandrasanders706
      @sandrasanders706 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This hurts me too. So many TV shows, films..filmed at this lot. History means nothing to these owners. I only hope that the artifacts were saved somehow. I really hate this is happening. Why more soundstages??? Hollywood film industry is losing money.😒🙄

  • @reconstructingleslie4597
    @reconstructingleslie4597 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for sharing this with us! This holds so many memories

  • @Rita-yw2tn
    @Rita-yw2tn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is so cool I’ve really enjoyed watching this and it’s brought back so many memories of the good old days when television and movies were great . Thank you for sharing this with us kind Sir .

  • @drewmonroe3747
    @drewmonroe3747 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This really hurts. Had a few lumps in my throat watching this. The Bewitched house was my favorite. I grew up wanting to move to 1164 Morning Glory Circle. I had hope they could have maybe removed the Bewitched house (facade) and taken it to a museum. An era now bulldozed and will soon be forgotten. Did you notice if the address numbers were still on the Bewitched house? Thank you so much for doing this video. Means a lot in so many ways. You were extremely fortunate to get to film this video.

    • @ERuth0420
      @ERuth0420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE BEWITCHED HOUSE T____________________________________T
      1164 Morning Glory Circle walked so 2800 Sherwood Drive could run, dude ;__________:

    • @baseballmomof8
      @baseballmomof8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s not just the Bewitched House. It is also Clark Griswold’s childhood home when he watches old home movies in the attic.😢

  • @lynnplummer2024
    @lynnplummer2024 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I have always had a fascination with old Hollywood, the studio's, everything that goes into making a scene and the eventual movie. There is such history there. Terrible to see it go. It was so quiet but as you walked through I could hear the past. The people, the imagination .....the history. It gave movies character. Sad to think it will be sound stages now and more computer tech. Thank you for capturing a last look and preserving it.

  • @michaelbeck2873
    @michaelbeck2873 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the tour, I enjoyed seeing where some of my favorite shows were filmed. Such history gone forever.

  • @sticksmcfly
    @sticksmcfly 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Adam, Thanks so much for this video! I went to Warner Ranch once as a kid for an event for Betty White's Actors and Other for animals, an organization which is still in operation. I also worked for the IT department at Warner Bros. about 15 years ago and went to the ranch a couple times to install computers in the offices there. Really appreciate you documenting this history!

  • @hankmiballz9134
    @hankmiballz9134 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    thank you Adam for giving us the behind the scenes tour of some of the most iconic houses ever in movies. i will miss the christmas vacation house the most . it has been in my life for 32 years .
    will be greatly missed ...

    • @aaronweiser5421
      @aaronweiser5421 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didnt they film the Leave it to Beaver house on this street..........

  • @kowalski5599
    @kowalski5599 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Thank you Adam for returning to this location. The Warner Ranch is the holy grail of locations for a lot of people and I'm glad you got in there and "overfilmed" as you called it. All the raw footage of this place, the nails holding it together, it's all a part of history. Thank you very much for visiting it and recording for us.😊

    • @brodriguez11000
      @brodriguez11000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Digitizing the whole thing would be best aside from buying and moving the buildings.

  • @jimhall1095
    @jimhall1095 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A great video!!! Thanks Adam. One of my favorites.

  • @TrevorBrass
    @TrevorBrass 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super cool, thank you for documenting this for movie/TV history!

  • @drewdundon7406
    @drewdundon7406 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    So great that you documented this piece of history before it's gone. Thanks for your work!

  • @TheWriteStuffWC
    @TheWriteStuffWC ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I wish they could turn this into a tourist tour. So much history. Every board should be put in the Oscar museum!

    • @MashaT22
      @MashaT22 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I went to WB on a tour around 2008 or 2009 where they drove tourists around in a mega golf cart. I distinctly recall the WB guide driving us off the main lot and taking us over to the Ranch to point out the famous houses and sets. It’s very sad to see this go. I wonder where they will keep filming scenes that require such structures. Renting actual locations is super expensive. I have to imagine they aren’t really doing it due to the cost of maintenance for these structures (which is likely cheaper than renting locations overall), but because they need more space for modern soundstages.
      I wish they would certify and sell pieces of these structures for fans to keep and/or let local artists use the raw materials for artistic purposes - like it would be cool to build models of these structures out of the real buildings.

    • @uuuultra
      @uuuultra ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All CGI and a.i. from now on lol

    • @MondoMiami
      @MondoMiami ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who in god’s name would go to an Oscar museum?

    • @richardvinsen2385
      @richardvinsen2385 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MondoMiami Movie fans.

  • @thetipinatorR
    @thetipinatorR 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you! I love seeing how everything is made and produced. I just found you today and I’m glad I did.🙏🏼❤️

  • @indybeth200
    @indybeth200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was just fascinating to watch! I am so glad you were able to film this, and you did a great job--thanks!

  • @questfortruth665
    @questfortruth665 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Having worked in the set construction part of movie making for twenty years, I worked on a lot of the sound stages and at the Warner back lot that you just filmed. It was sort of nostalgic, but I'm very glad I'm retired now! People don't realize how much work it takes to make a movie!

    • @analogsignal
      @analogsignal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      apparently not for long. Just slap up a green screen, remove any humanity and realness. How bleak the future of film will be

    • @LilyGazou
      @LilyGazou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe you. I work on commercial photography. Lotta fakery.
      AI is going to change the industry.

  • @jvcomedy
    @jvcomedy ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Very interesting! You can tell you're younger (than me) as you highlight some of the movies that were filmed at the houses, but lots of TV history even older than those movies. For example the house to the right of the Griswold house was also the house where Hazel and Gidget were filmed (exterior) and the house to the right of the Patridge house was the house not only for the original Blondie movies, but also the house for Father Knows Best, Mr. Wilson i nDennis the Menace and where Jeanie lived in I Dream of Jeanie. To the right of it was where Dennis the Menace lived. Lots of changes since the 60's when those TV shows were filmed as many of the homes you identified from movies didn't even exist on that street in the 60's, i.e. The Griswold house. Again, very interesting. Sad it's all going away.

  • @MEMORIA1316
    @MEMORIA1316 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for preserving this piece of cultural history!

  • @gpr8695
    @gpr8695 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for sharing this !!!

  • @Sparty-pi3jq
    @Sparty-pi3jq ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Thanks to you Adam, I've discovered a passion i didnt know I had. My wife and I have done all sorts of movie studio and backlot tours. It's been so much fun, to see things related to the movies, I know and love. We tipped a private tour driver a good amount and were able to really get to see what was left of Hill Valley, and that was something off my bucket list. Great video as always Adam.

  • @kellecetraro4807
    @kellecetraro4807 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    You didn't over film. This is exactly the kind of content that makes TH-cam great 🙏🏼
    Never seen your channel this video randomly popped up in my feed. I'm glad it did, it was a treat.

    • @kelliintexas3575
      @kelliintexas3575 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      OMG! HIS ARCHIVE IS AMAZING!!!

  • @1RCPILOT
    @1RCPILOT 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s definitely sad to know its all going away! Awesome last look at everything there. Thank you!

  • @aubiejazz
    @aubiejazz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you very much for the visit to some of my favorite movies and TV shows.

  • @lanearndt5958
    @lanearndt5958 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    When I was working on various crews in the '80's and '90's, I had the pleasure of working on that location for several shoots. We shot the pilot for the kid's show "Eerie Indiana" for a week, and was on Blondie street most of the time. I toured all of those houses back then when we were in between takes. Such a blast to work there since it was a close location for most of us who lived in the area. Thank for posting this. Great memories.

  • @johnfraley8544
    @johnfraley8544 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The Heck House location originally had a church. It was removed and the current house built in its place. They then built the church you went into. That same area used to have the Convent Santanco from The Flying Nun. The large area behind the Partridge / Jeannie houses held two parallel western streets where they shot High Noon.
    The beach area was actually farther back where the neighboring shopping center is now. That same spot was where the Shangri-La set for Lost Horizon.
    Where you parked used to have several New York streets.
    The Waltons/Animal Kingdom house had sets for Here Come the Brides, Apple's Way and a copy of the Arbortorium building used in Fantasy Island.
    With so much Hollywood history already gone, it's so sad to see more fall under the bulldozers.
    Thanks Adam!

  • @huha47
    @huha47 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was a group of film students who gave tours of the backlot when there was an open house there in the early 70s, later I was one of some 60 managers at Warner's in the 80s in studio operations. Heartbreaking to hear it's all history now. Schade!

  • @Kelly-tj8xv
    @Kelly-tj8xv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In Bewitched, when they're outside in the front yard, the yard looks so large. But when you filmed the Bewitched house/set, the front yard is looking so tiny now.

  • @joesinkovits6591
    @joesinkovits6591 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Warner Bros administration ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for destroying such an iconic piece of motion picture and television history.

  • @ds99
    @ds99 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That’s a shame they are getting rid of all of that instead of fixing it up and re-using it. So much history being knocked down. I really loved seeing the Bewitched house. Thanks for showing that. I always thought someday I’d go there and see it in person but I know that will never happen now. Thank you for the great video.

  • @Melanie220
    @Melanie220 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a great look into WB history! I particularly enjoyed seeing Miss Mamie and Miss Emily Baldwin's house from The Waltons. They really got the historical Virginia architecture right on that! Thanks for taking us on a tour of this iconic place!

  • @firstnationsindian8062
    @firstnationsindian8062 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for taking the time.

  • @epytaffskitchenstink
    @epytaffskitchenstink ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hard to believe so much time has passed since we watched Jeannie and Bewitched Partridge Family etc. Thanks for the video.

  • @libra74677
    @libra74677 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Bewitched", was one of my favorite programs as a kid. I LOVED their house and always wanted to live there. So, sad, to know it will be gone.

  • @michaelburgess9707
    @michaelburgess9707 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you for this documentation of what we are all collectively losing of our heritage. I recall the MGM auctions and how much of that stuff should now be in a museum. Kinda sad seeing this.

  • @Negritacruz76
    @Negritacruz76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating!😮 Thank you so much for this! Your walk thru was very educational...I had no idea how often the different places were reused❤

  • @ejamesl
    @ejamesl ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A huge thank you for sharing this gem of film history with us before it's gone.

  • @mustangcindy1303
    @mustangcindy1303 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for showing the places before they are gone. Christmas Vacation, Bewitched, the Monkees, I Dream of Jeannie. Four of my favorites. I remember the Waltons too. My parents and my grandmother loved that show. We went and meet most of the cast and Earl Hammer, Jr. for the opening of the Waltons Museum in Schuyler, Va. back in the early 90s (I think it was). Sad to see all of this movie and TV history destroyed.

    • @rp4254
      @rp4254 ปีที่แล้ว

      He didn't show the I Dream of Jeannie house!🙄

  • @ts32323
    @ts32323 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you! This brought back so many good memories. You did a great job!

  • @terryrichardson7029
    @terryrichardson7029 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for this. Memories that can now be kept for eternity.

  • @MyBackyardScience
    @MyBackyardScience ปีที่แล้ว +35

    So happy you got to go back to the ranch! Your previous visit was quite memorable! It's great that you got to do a complete documentation of the area! 🙂

  • @bombaybeach208
    @bombaybeach208 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've worked on that lot a few times. Many happy breaktimes walking around the usually quiet neighborhoods.

  • @gibson33872
    @gibson33872 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was VERY COOL! Thanks for Sharing!

  • @critters16
    @critters16 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for showing us a glimpse of History - before it's gone.

  • @KLEARSKITHEKREEPER
    @KLEARSKITHEKREEPER ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So glad u got to document this. 😎✌️

  • @rebekahturk-mcmillen497
    @rebekahturk-mcmillen497 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Sad to see all of this disappear. So glad you documented so much. Love how long and detailed this video is.

  • @matthewmerritt485
    @matthewmerritt485 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your detail and "eye" for catching these locations is amazing.. thank you for sharing

  • @Gizathecat2
    @Gizathecat2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the tour! I worked as an extra on a bunch of films and shows in the 1980s and found myself in sound stages and “back lots” at Paramount and Universal and a couple others I can’t remember. It was a wonderful, if grueling time. They say “hurry up and wait” is an army thing. Hurry up and wait is also film and tv saying!

  • @Mszahnclass95
    @Mszahnclass95 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    i remember you and Scott on Tape went to the warner Bros ranch
    It's sad to see this getting demolished . A lot of Hollywood history is getting demolished . unfortunately as we get older everything changes .. I am glad you captured this an can look back on it

  • @CascadeEarthNW
    @CascadeEarthNW ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, what a wonderful walking tour. We can’t stop the demolition so thank you for this tour.

  • @lisastreasures
    @lisastreasures 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a cool tour. Thanks for taking us with you. Always have been intrigued by the facade houses. 😊

  • @emary711
    @emary711 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well done, so glad you documented this before it is flattened. Wasn't even aware of the facility, but watched many of the movies/shows filmed there when I was younger. It was a strangely emotional experience to see all the sites together, and right before they are about to be torn down. Great video, its the first of yours I've watched, I'll certainly be checking out some of your others, best wishes