Top Gun (1986) Filming Locations in San Diego - Beach Cottage / Bar Scenes / First Kiss & Much More
A visit to the Top Gun filming locations from the 1986 Tom Cruise movie . Starting in Oceanside California and heading south down to San Diego hitting a few of the key spots .
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today's adventure begins in Oceanside
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California at the pier
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be heading southbound from this point
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down to San Diego
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here I
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will be retracing the steps the filming
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locations a majority of them from the
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1986 Tom Cruise film Top Gun prepare to
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have your breath taken away
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join me Shelley the first spot is right
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along the shoreline straight ahead you
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will see a house sitting all by itself
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painted blue this is where a very iconic
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lovemaking scene took place all the
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other homes on that block have been
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bulldozed but for now that has been
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saved for now used to be a lot of homes
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along this block but where Charlie and
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maverick shared their intimate moments
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is the only one left visited very often
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by tourists and fans of the movie do you
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think it'd be a museum by now but it's
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not it's all fenced off the sign States
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but the restoration is pending due to
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future hotel developments that might be
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happening on the site they have placed
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the movie poster on the left of the
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porch I'll be able to peek through where
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this chain link fence has been pulled
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back up that slight incline from the
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beach so where Tom Cruise rode his
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motorcycle turning around basically
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where someone has parked their truck and
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next to that stop sign
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parked it here's a screenshot of what it
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looked like then versus what it looks
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like now goes up and knocks on the door
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no one answers it's been repainted
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obviously a different color but the
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porch remains the same as does the
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banister here on the far right it's
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still the same pieces of wood from the
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80s she was home however just not in the
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front room he had to turn around the
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side of the structure and along that
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secondary porch before he realized she
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was home by looking at this photo of the
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time frame he used to extend way back
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they built on to what is here now and
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over time they compressed it back to
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what is now standing but in fact it went
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all the way back to that end of the
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property meaning a couple scenes who
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will not be able to match up however she
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was sitting right there and what once
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was a doorway basically where I'm now
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standing is where he is in the
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screenshot more or less the precise area
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that he was walking past pay close
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attention to the window to the right of
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her head here that window can be seen on
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the far right
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of the back area of the home meaning
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that everything to the left of the lamp
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has now been torn down it's kind of hard
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to get your bearings if you use your
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imagination and kind of figure it out
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when they had the open air conversation
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on what you would think would be one of
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the porches on what is now standing it
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wasn't it was on a home that was back
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here attached to the property that would
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be this particular scene where she is
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laying comfortably and he's very
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attentive
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after once again recently watching the
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film I noticed an editing error right
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here stanchions in the ground was a for
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rent sign that is shown earlier in the
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film as he rides off on his cycle after
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that conversation I just mentioned when
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technically that should not have showed
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up until later it wasn't there when he
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first pulled up so they obviously used a
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clip from the end of the film and just
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threw it in there I said neither that
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riding away on the motorcycle shot it
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was between these two boarded up windows
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where the magic happened where the semi
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awkward open mouth kissing took place
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and the way I know is the baseboards
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there at the bottom of the porch can be
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seen out the windows notice on either
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side of the frame are those two windows
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and if you peek out you can see the
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porch itself right there and those
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boards still exist that's what you're
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looking out from the opposite
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perspective while standing here I talked
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to one of the locals and he said they
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are moving this a couple blocks away
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it's gonna be saved and completely
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renovated and that should happen in
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another year year and a half let's just
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cross our fingers and hope it's true
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it's definitely a big piece of
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pop-culture movie history and who knows
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maybe when that point comes it'll be
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open to the general public and we'll get
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to peek inside time will tell but for
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now it's time to move on to the next
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spot heading southbound to San Diego bow
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bow bow bow bow bow bow
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bow-bow bow-bow bow-bow bow-bow
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I feel like I'm gonna have that song
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stuck in my head the rest that I get out
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of my head song get out of my head if
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you've ever lost that loving feeling
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I recommend showing up here to the
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Lafayette hotel we're in one of the
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rooms you can still hear the faint
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sounds of reminiscent past the bar
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itself was set up right here under this
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circular pattern on the roof and what
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they call the Mississippi room and if
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you pay close attention to the air
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ventilation system and the architecture
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of that beam you'll notice it is
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precisely the same where he picked up
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that microphone and started singing they
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built a fake wall to put those windows
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in the background and if it wasn't for
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those vents that I showed a moment ago
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right up there in the corner it'd be
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hard to pinpoint that this was the spot
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but that's where the bar was same angle
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camera pointed in the same exact
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direction look very very closely above
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her head is a beam that attaches to the
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wall you can see the patterns carved
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into it this is that very beam it is
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possible that they did not build the
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windows and a fake partition but maybe
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they've just remodeled this section
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since those days hard to tell and if you
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ever pay this place a visit the room is
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located down these stairs in the
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basement just adjacent to the entryway
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and with that gonna make my way down the
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road just a bit to the next location and
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now down into Liberty Station
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it was across this way that she in a
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meeting gave her thoughts on Mavericks
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flight performance which he wasn't too
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happy about as he walked out he was
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completely ignoring her as she tried to
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talk to him even though quite a few
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buildings have these very same pillars
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in this neighborhood the way I figured
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it was this precise one was off in the
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distance you can see that doorway
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however in this day and age doesn't look
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like that doorway is accessible at the
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moment right here is where his
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motorcycle was parked she was trying to
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get his attention but he wanted nothing
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to do with that whatsoever cranking up
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the engine so he couldn't hear I can't
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hear you
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you certainly can get some 30 plus year
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old vibes by standing right here pretty
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neat this is also where she drove off in
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a hurry to catch him
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notice the building there on the left as
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seen here
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it's a high-speed pursuit whoa
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also a little later on in the film after
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goose dies some somber moments as she
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drops him off in the car and he walks
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once again next to these pillars
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the airplanes flying overhead is really
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adding to the ambience
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in route now closer to downtown that I
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was before right in the heart of the
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city directly under this overpass at the
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top of this hill was where they shared
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their very first kiss he was speeding
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upward at a very high rate of speed she
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was close behind darting in and out of
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traffic trying to catch up he zooms past
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this home nice view of the ships off in
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the harbor and the water that's what it
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looked like
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back then you can faintly see a blur of
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him on the cycle there on the far right
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that home still has the wooden fence
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even though the paint job is then
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changed just a little bit other than
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that looks pretty much the same oh there
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goes another plane
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and in the next frame quickly moving
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past this intersection the cityscape has
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changed a little bit in the background
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and the some of the palm trees have been
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removed
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but there it is but she's not taking no
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for an answer
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also barreling through the stop sign all
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traffic laws when you're in love pretty
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much are meaningless over the last few
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decades this tree has grown considerably
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and where this truck is now stationed is
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where her car skid repeatedly utility
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did a few takes judging by the marks on
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the ground and it was right there she
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confessed she was falling for them as
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shocked as he was he enjoyed the idea he
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leaned in for a kiss and the rest as
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they say is history
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movie history to be more precise and
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over this shoulder used to be a concrete
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slab a wall of sorts has been removed
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things change over time you have to
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accept that but it is always fun to use
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some clues to match up different spots
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it's pretty dang cool that this tree
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remains
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just where it happened Bam Bam Bam Bam
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Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam take the
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people walking by I think I'm a little
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weird for embracing a tree there on Bam
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Bam Bam Bam
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bamm-bamm just walk away just walk away
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nothing to see here still one
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destination left to go the plateau the
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pinnacle of this adventure over here
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across the railroad tracks is a place
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known as Kansas City barbecue if you
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ever said it would be when pigs fly that
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I would visit the sleazy bar from Top
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Gun
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well this moment is about to happen even
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though a few years ago a terrible fire
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burned out the inside the structure
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still is exactly the same the walls and
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the facade few of the props were also
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destroyed but they've gotten new ones
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from what I heard and they have properly
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embraced the theming of the movie to the
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fullest possible extent oh yes this is
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definitely happening
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oh wow looks pretty much exactly the
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same that's where he was sitting at the
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end of the movie and she dropped the
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quarter in the jukebox slot to play that
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lovin feelin to bring back the memories
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just to give a little perspective that
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that's the screenshot right there on the
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menu at state that the way it was chosen
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was the location scout stopped in here
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for a beer and that's how he chose this
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particular bar they were able to save
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this poster that scene there when I say
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they fully embrace it I mean it up this
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is supposed to be the other way I think
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it's pretty amazing they still have the
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piano that games played a great pause of
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fire on how cool is that I never
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realized the kid that played gooses son
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was played by two twins originally the
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piano was placed right over there it's
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been moved but that's where that iconic
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scene took place and they've even placed
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a photograph right above where it's not
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the same jukebox obviously but they
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place another one in the same spot where
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tom was standing next to her and there's
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the doorway where he turned around and
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Charlie was waiting I guess I should
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have said spoiler alert but now it's
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it's been a few years you should have
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seen it by now just think it was right
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here amongst these walls that meg Ryan
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said take me to bed or lose me forever
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quite an offer dan dan dan dan dan dun
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dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
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dun duh didn't
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dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan dan
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dan dan dan and
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dant dant dant dant and tangent charge
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and joy
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dan Donna
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da-da-da-da-da-da
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