The Wedding Singer Filming Locations - 1998 Adam Sandler Movie Spots Tour / Then & Now Los Angeles
The Wedding Singer (1998) Filming Locations
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure will take me around
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the greater los angeles area as i
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traverse
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through the fictional state of new
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jersey and the 1998
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film set in the mid-80s the wedding
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singer
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is not in new jersey it is in southern
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california
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and i'm going to attempt to hit all the
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spots
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it's going to be out of sequence the
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timeline will be a little off in order
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to
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procure each of these destinations
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throughout the course of the day
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starting drew barrymore adam sandler
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it's a fun film and i'm inviting you to
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join me as i find the locations
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shall you got my clipboard been watching
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the blu-ray quite a bit lately got some
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screen grabs
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got a lot of information here that's
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going to be very helpful and
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organized got to be organized
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starting in sierra madre heading over to
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julia's house did some street parking
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and actually talked to the residents
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that are walking out of that house there
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which was where drew barrymore was up in
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that window
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and adam sandler's character robbie
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walked right past this tree
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he was talking to himself about how he
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thought about her every morning when he
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woke up
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and he was gonna go up and tell her
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exactly how he felt
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but he saw how happy she was up in the
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window
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and he just couldn't do it so he turned
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around and
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went back to the bar talked to the
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residents who were out front in the yard
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they said there were quite a few changes
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on the interiors
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and they have redone
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the rock work out front on the ledge
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there
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and a new paint job and there was an
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awning above the balcony which is gone
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as well
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but other than that it does look pretty
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similar a lot of the windows have
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have changed quite a bit her car would
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have been parked right out front here
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this is a designated historical landmark
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by the city of sierra madre and you can
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see that little placard
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in fact right here in the movie
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there is that historical marker there i
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never noticed that before
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that's interesting another scene took
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place here as well
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see the other vehicle pulls up right
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here
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looks as if the siding has also been
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replaced
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over the last couple decades up at the
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top portion there they did use the
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interiors they use that upstairs
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room she was looking in the in the
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mirror
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because the camera focuses out the
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here where sandler was walking up in
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fact
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this little manhole here could be seen
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very prominently and the curb
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i was flipping the pages to give you an
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example
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this curb and that tree as he was
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walking away
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a little bit of growth from the limbs
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but the way the tree forks upward
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looks like they've cut off some of the
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branches
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that's it
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right there if you can imagine
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this is where robbie was standing we had
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to have some
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some good eagle eyes
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to see her smiling from here
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located on the corner of sierra place
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and santa anita court
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and the residents were were very nice to
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give me some information
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they even took a little walk so that i
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could get
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some of the angles i needed without them
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being in the front yard
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okay moving on i like this neighborhood
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a lot it's very
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quiet and peaceful
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that's right big the foot on that porch
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is also where holly kissed robbie and
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realized that
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he was in love with julia she had no
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chance
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heading over to huntington library and
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gardens now
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on the property here this stretch of
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the stretch of land
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with all these figures along a little
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corridor of grass
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at that very end there was two different
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weddings that took place
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with robbie when he got stood up at the
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beginning
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at the very end it was a little happier
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occasion at the end
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and it kind of took place down there
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near that building
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the band was set up right here and she's
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coming into frame there to deliver the
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the
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bad news that his fiancee was not
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arriving
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but notice the figures over here
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those would be these very figures
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that would be the precise angle there
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so the wedding would have taken place
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right here
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under this backdrop it would have
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erected a lot of fake foliage and trees
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behind the partitions looking that way
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just to give it a a backdrop as well as
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when robbie's looking in this direction
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as seen here
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also more fake foliage but really the
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way you can figure out that this is the
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spot
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is because of the little gazebo
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over here that drew pops her head out of
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well around notice the design of the
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pillars and
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the two figures that are etched
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right over there
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that's the spot pretty cool
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this part of the premises you have to
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pay an admission fee well the whole
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property
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there is a daily fee or a membership
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in order to see this spot it is
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beautiful
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very vast
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expansive property they only use this
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one section for the wedding singer
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though
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one of these days i'll have to return
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and explore the entire area
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but i've got a lot more to cover
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i keep moving over to pasadena now
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very short commute a couple miles
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beautiful landscape through here arrived
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at east topeka street
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this would been where robbie was living
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in the basement a fictional basement
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down below
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of this homestead this was used in many
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many different
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scenes throughout the course of the film
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this tree
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very prominent give an example here
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when the limo pulls in
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and that's the same tree also
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quite a bit took place on that porch
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also where
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drew threw all the music sheets up in
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the air was right there on that sidewalk
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and they built around the side a
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fake entrance into the basement which
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would have been located
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right around that section brickwork next
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to the staircase has been replaced
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and they have placed rocks
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instead over time seems to be
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really about the only the only major
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change
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the tree behind sammy as long as well as
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the brickwork in the driveway
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is identical no palm trees
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in jersey though but there are in
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pasadena
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there's the driveway i was referring to
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pretty neat how pretty much still looks
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the same i believe it's even the same
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color paint
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paint as it was this is looking down the
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road before he pulls the limo into the
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driveway
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see how the trees all
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line up correctly pulled in there
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see his and then at another time under
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the shroud of nightfall
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the branches on that tree kind of a
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an array of branches there
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as she was waiting up there he was
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sitting
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on that little ledge on the stairway
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once again this is where all the papers
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were strewn around in the yard
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a better angle would have been in this
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precise spot
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even the homes just across the road
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and still remain as well kind of in the
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back the backdrop as well
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this gives a good perspective where they
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built the
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facade of the stairway down to the
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basement
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off to the side of this home you can see
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in real life it does not exist over
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it was right next to the chimney the
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bricks from the chimney
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just past that
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just had a nice lengthy conversation
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with the owner he's up there on the
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porch now
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he's giving me some information about
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that he was here when they were filming
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it and they did do
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interiors inside as well so the rooms
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are very spacious
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so that they could utilize the inside
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also
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and the brickwork i was mentioning that
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i thought the owners would have
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replaced and fixed into rock he said it
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was originally
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the rock work and they just you know
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hollywood magic put the brick over it
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but it's always been rock from before
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that they were here to film it's been
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used in
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a few other productions as well but the
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wedding singer being
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the most popular he said people always
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stop by and take photographs he knew
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exactly what i was doing
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when i was standing over here from here
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about seven or eight miles or so over to
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montrose to the next destination camera
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would have been set up at the end of
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this alley but this is where glenn
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drove his delorean down i'm walking the
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same path that glenn
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was driving that car
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to pick up his fiancee who had had a
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little too much to drink
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it is now a diner a cafe
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but you can see they set dressed it to
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look like a
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an 80s club
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you can also see that manhole cover
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there below the delorean's
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front fender in the front and the
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windows
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also on the little brick formation
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over there is the same as well and
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there's that manhole right down there
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a couple blocks away also on honolulu
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ave
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a couple other spots including this
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establishment which
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was the bar interiors
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which cannot go in there is a sorry
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we're closed sign
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during these times the exterior is where
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the fight took place
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you can see them walking right along
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having a pre-bachelor party
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as he stated it and you know the
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brickwork
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robbie bought his own his own bottle the
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bartender said you can't drink that in
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so he said i'm gonna go out to the alley
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and the fight took place
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right over here kind of right in this
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section i always like to match up little
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details like the paintwork on the bricks
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if you look really closely and you kind
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of count
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where the bricks are painted here like
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that's a full
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full piece of paint there that's kind of
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like kind of scattered paint
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and then match it up to the screen grab
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here this is what i'm kind of referring
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right up there and it's just it's little
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details like that it's it's hilarious
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when
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the elderly man throws the punch
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the older gentleman it makes contact but
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but glenn didn't flinch it at all would
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be fun to get inside the interior but
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you know
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in this day and age with everything
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going on cannot see where
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the moonwalk was being taught right
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behind those bricks
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yep interiors were in there this was a
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sandwich shop had the the signage
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painted right there on the window
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as you can see and next to that was a
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bakery where they filmed
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the interiors of you know eating some
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cake
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adam sandler fed a piece to a
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a lady that no one knew who she was just
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a random lady
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here's one of the moments from that
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particular scene
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looks like there are going to be a new
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establishment's going to go in here
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so sandwich shop was there bakery was
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right here what i'm saying is
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what i really want is for someone to
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hold me
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and tell me that everything is gonna be
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all right
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yeah that was right in there too heading
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now into
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descanso gardens
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these power balls
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i might not be able to access it or get
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to it
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but right over there in that parking lot
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is where sammy was practicing with his
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vehicle with the limo
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they were cones yeah it took place over
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there see if i can
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maybe get an angle of it as you can see
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right there on the fence
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it says this area is off limits
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but it does look the same it's a very
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expansive area of concrete
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where he was driving around there is a
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certain tree
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over there that i might be able to zoom
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in on that we can pinpoint it
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tough to tell from this distance but i
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do believe that's the one that drew and
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adam sandler are standing in front of
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when they're timing him right there in
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the center of the screen
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you can even see how there's a little
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bit of an incline there on the hill
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and how funny is this they were cones
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they were cones those could have been
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guests at her wedding
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i'm like way too excited that this is
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the spot
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i wish i could get in there but it's off
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limits
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are cones as i wait to depart this spot
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i'm kind of noticing with the gate and
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fence over there
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the trees i was just standing by if the
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camera was in this spot
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that right over there are the trees and
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the gate that i was standing by looking
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the opposite direction obviously but
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yeah right over there
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okay moving on now 17 miles
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have to go over towards west hollywood
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a little bit of a ways just one block up
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there is
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the sunset strips well sunset boulevard
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right before it turns into this trip
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who would have known that rosie's house
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was just a few feet off of that very
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busy
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through affair she was getting the
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singing lessons
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so it looks pretty much the same this
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tree has grown quite a bit
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and picket fence
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is not there probably was just placed
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there for production value to give it
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that
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a quaint look and looking off the porch
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the opposite way
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you can see the home over here is still
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the same
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i also look very closely but the garage
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is still back there as well
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and they did film some scenes in the
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backyard just past the house
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this is from around the back but you can
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see how the driveway is made up of these
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tile type of
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tiles here and those still exist
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as well it's neat how this is not
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anywhere near the other homes on the
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complete opposite side of the greater
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los angeles area even though this looks
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like it could be a pasadena home it's
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not
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off to wilshire boulevard now about six
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or seven miles
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give or take hello birds
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now it looks a lot different than it did
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back then
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this is the robert kennedy
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inspiration park because a little side
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note
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this is where his tragic end
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took place he was wounded here but also
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in the same room where robbie was
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singing love stinks
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next to that room was the kitchen
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very interesting this is pretty much
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all that remains here
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the former entrance to the ambassador
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he used to drive right through here
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lots of productions took place not just
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the wedding singer
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and not just the kennedy history but
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kind of disappointing that it's been
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torn down here's when he is
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having his campaign rally and then you
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kind of look and see another
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photograph that i i found that's the way
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the roof looks
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and then look at the top up here
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and that's from the wedding singer and
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there's sandler there
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pretty wild same room now as far as i
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know there is nothing
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left of the original building
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it's a completely new structure back in
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there but that's where the ambassador
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stood
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long gone another thing i noticed when
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when watching the scene
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a young brian pasane is biting
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and fighting sandler's leg right there
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after
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after the song that would have i would
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have been right here on property too
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yeah just know it's like i think it's
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brian's the same
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and it is you have to look very it only
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happens for a moment but he's in there
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downtown straight ahead almost there
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oh puppy parking was a little difficult
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but
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found a structure up here and i believe
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what i am looking for which was the bank
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building
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is right over there on that corner
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used for many different films and
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productions
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on the bottom floor walk down there and
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over there now
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located at 650
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spring street is the address it was used
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as the interiors where
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robbie goes to get a job and kevin
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nealon
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denies any interest in him getting that
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job these would be the doors you don't
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see any of the exteriors
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but there's the address there six five
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zero
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notice the windows at the top portion up
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here how they're kind of a have a little
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archway circular
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pattern you know this is on the outside
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kind of peeking in but it's the same
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type of windows
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it would have been more towards towards
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that end down there though
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all right i found a spot where i can
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kind of peek through the window it looks
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the same kind of pattern on the walls
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and everything is
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it's the same in there obviously no
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office furniture
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they're made to look like a bank but
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yeah that's
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that's it right there hasn't changed
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much
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especially that pattern there on the
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woodwork there about kevin kneeland's
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head yeah
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this is this is the place definitely
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