Filming Locations Tour of South Pasadena California - Dozens of Movies & TV Show Spots in One Town
South Pasadena Filming Location Tour
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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this placard here on the ground that
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states the gamble house I am in Pasadena
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California you might
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recognize this very impressive structure
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from Back to the Future it was the
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fictional home of Doc
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Brown played by Christopher Lloyd and
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the garage is right over there now I
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chose the spot to do the intro because
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I'm going to head over to the next town
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south of here known as South Pasadena
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which holds a special special place in
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my heart because there are so many
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filming locations of
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the80s
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persuasion and I'm I grew up in the 80s
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it's born in
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1974 so when this movie came out back to
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the future I would have been 11 years
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old in
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1985 and rented a lot of VHS a lot of
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video store rentals from the early ' 80s
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to the late ' 80s that would be my
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favorite genre of film now I do kind of
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dip into the 70s and into the '90s and
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then you know since then a few here and
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there but I am all about the 1980s and
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South
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Pasadena is a plethora a treasure Trove
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of these spots some of them I have
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covered some of them I have not some in
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very great detail now a little
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disclaimer this will not be a deep dive
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into every single nook and cranny of
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some of these films that I'm going to be
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showing the spots from but I thought as
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a recording of this it is a Sunday let
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me check the
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date Sunday July 25th
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2021 headed up from Orange County there
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was very little traffic side note a
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little Insider tip if you will there's
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not a lot of traffic on Sunday mornings
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in Southern California this is a good
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time to do this and you should be able
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to cover all these spots within a couple
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of hours that I'm going to show starting
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now it's almost 11:00 a.m. I'm going to
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get going just heading a few miles into
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South pasaden I'm inviting you to join
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me shall you and I also thought it'd be
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a neat idea anyone that's visiting the
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Greater Los Angeles area can just zip
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over to this section yeah it looks very
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familiar a bttf doesn't it and do this
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tour either on their own in their own
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car or just watch this just watch this
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video and you can just see how close
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proximity a lot of these spots will be
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this is the only spot that I will be
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showing that is not going to be in South
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Pasadena they are all going to be in
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that same
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town let me get going file this one
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under casual tour presented by myself
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Adam the
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woo I don't know if that's really a I
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guess you could call it casual tour a
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non-specific non-detailed
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explanation of how close proximity
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everything is I feel like I have a
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pretty good handle on this area covered
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a lot of subject matters in great detail
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over the years and know this vicinity I
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want to say like the back of my hand but
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I know it pretty well also going to give
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some time stamps it's currently almost
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11:00 a.m. 2 minutes to 11: might as
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well start off with the obvious right
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here next to the train tracks on Mission
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Street I am passing by the original
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Halloween John Carpenter's Halloween
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house the Meers house
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the Metro Rail going
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by this a good starting point in my
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opinion the Meers house really needs no
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introduction this will be the focal
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point I'm just going to show some other
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stuff that's within a mile or two of
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this iconic
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structure in fact right behind this is a
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little pretty and Pink Spot located near
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the corner of Hope Street and Meridian I
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say near the corner because it's only
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half a block up just past the alleyway
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and this Alleyway up here was also used
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in Halloween 2 the
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sequel so if you pass by the Halloween 2
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alley you will see Andy's house played
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by Molly
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ringwall and pretty and pink Molly
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Ringwald pretty and pink just just be
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careful not to run into Michael Myers
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down there I do not
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want to see him now over the years they
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have erected this fence here but I do
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believe the
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Interiors for pretty and pink were right
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inside
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view if you had a parking lot or if you
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had a parking lot if you had a bicycle
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you could ride around in what is now a
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parking lot and recreate
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ducky ducky moment when he was looking
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at the house next to the train tracks
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there's the house right over
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there again nothing of which I'm showing
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is going to be groundbreaking or hasn't
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been shown
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before but the proximity everything in
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Pasadena it's a pretty interesting
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subject
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matter including this building up here
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which used to be a hotel corner of
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mission was seen in a lot of Productions
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waiting on the
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shrine which way is it going
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from there it
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is if you've seen Step Brothers there
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was a a quick scene right in here where
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will farell John C Riley were
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talking with that background behind it
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also television show step by step the
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intro was right through here the family
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drove pretty much following these same
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cars right past the South pass
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Historical Museum and the house is just
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a block a couple blocks from here a mile
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or so from here as well from that show
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also on Mission
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Street back in the day you could have
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seen the wolf mobile cruising right down
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this section with
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Styles behind the wheel Michael J fox
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playing Teen Wolf up on top doing some
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cartwheels this rat's holding a sign
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says get in
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here that's pretty interesting this
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whole stretch has been used in quite a
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few
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things hardware store Mr Howard's
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hardware store was right up here on the
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left and right on the end a scene from
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Mr Deeds Adam Sandler and wona Ryder
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we're right inside this
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Pharmacy which she's recognized from her
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youth by some of the Town folk right on
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the corner of mission and pH Oaks
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celebrating over a hundred years at this
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location still looks the same still uh
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still a soda fountain as
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well because it is currently Sunday they
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are closed
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but check it
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out still has the bar there the soda
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fountain bar and
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everything
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nice also should mention just kind of
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covering things I know a lot about there
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will be there will be some subject
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matters and a lot of things that were
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filmed here that I'm not going to
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mention I'm not going to give a broad
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spectrum just going to show what I'm
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very very familiar
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with a personalized tour
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in la la land the
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Rialto was utilized but not just that
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that would probably be the most recent
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that I could pinpoint out but dating
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back to screen 2 the sequel this entire
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building was utilized the interiors and
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exteriors for the premiere of of
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stab also used as the Interiors inside
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here for Michael Jackson's Thriller
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Exteriors were in Downtown
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LA but the
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Interiors you may have seen you know the
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the photo or the meme of him chowing
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down on the popcorn or if you've seen
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the music
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video right inside
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here and he's watching the movie in the
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Rialto and it's right here on Oxley
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Street which there's a couple other
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spots on Oxley
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in close vicinity I just love that old
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theater I was lucky enough a couple
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Halloweens ago on Halloween night I went
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to South Pasadena which was quite an
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experience to say the least and they
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were doing a little maintenance little
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Construction in there and one of the
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workers let me in and go and just get a
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little peek I saw it with my own eyes
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could not figure out exactly what seat
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Michael was sitting in but it was pretty
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cool to be in there from Scream 2 and
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from Thriller and as I drive down Oxley
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place it's kind of find a place to park
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and Rob Zombie also used this
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neighborhood for his
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remake that it's pretty cool to swing by
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here and get the J Lee Curtis angle
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also on a side note over here is a
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little placard that has to do with
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Halloween my gosh look at these little
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doggies the in Interiors of this
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building has been used many many times
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for Productions as well many many times
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countless Productions including Rob
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Zombies version and just two short
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blocks
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away is the Strode house from the
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Remake oh wait not the stro house the
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Myers house got confused for a minute
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the Myers house from the Remake which is
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used specifically for television and
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movie production it is not a personal
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residence
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me pull over here in park but the thing
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I wanted to point out is another usage
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of this my so-called life the TV series
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CLA Danes Jared
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Leto this was the family's
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home right
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here so not just use
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for you know Rob Zombies franchise
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but also for my so-called
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life and across the street this house
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was also
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used for the
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neighbor soothing sounds of the train
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going by in the distance all of it
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within kind of ear view
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of the metro rail
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South Pasadena got to love it wonder if
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some of the neighbors I'm sure the
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neighbors realize there's lots of
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filming some of the houses and they may
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even be paid for some of the houses to
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be used in Productions this whole area
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constantly is being utilized for filming
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but do you think those on this street
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have any idea that this is Jordan
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Catalano stomping
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ground doubtful drove a little less than
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a mile probably an eighth of a mile to
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the corner of Edgewood and Milan the
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1992
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film
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Beethoven which spawned many many
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sequels the house from the first
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film was right over here and it looks
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exactly the same as it did including the
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the pole here the light pole the
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sidewalk the
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trees the little awning the
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windows everything the
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same wow pretty dang
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cool there was even a moment that they
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show the houses across the way
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here when the mail lady is inserting the
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mail in the in the door slot you can see
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that that tree that is
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angled Charles
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groden I believe he recently
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passed I remember him from one of the
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Muppet movies was Muppet Take Manhattan
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he was in classic I stand in corrected
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got to thinking about it looked it up it
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was the great Muppet Caper just trying
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to go off most of this from memory and
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you know the general vicinity but
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sometimes your brain says I think you're
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incorrect and I was had to look it up
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great Muppet Caper not Muppets tap
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Manhattan which is another another
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classic moving on just another block
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block or two away on the same road on
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Milan this home was used in fairis bu's
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day off now most of it took place up in
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Chicago where John Hughes was from but
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there were one or two in the Greater Los
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Angeles area including the back of this
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home for the sunbathing scene when
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Ferris is running trying to get back to
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his house cuts through a backyard it was
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this backyard in South
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Pasadena kind of jumps between the two
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girls goes back and shakes one of their
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hands and introduces
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himself yep
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who knew corner of mission in Fremont is
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this
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Kos stood in for big buns and Terminator
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that's right Sak I'm looking for Sak I
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was told she was here can I see her
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please
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another familiar street I'm
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approaching recognizable
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from you know other Productions have to
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turn onto Highland
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and not to point out the obious going to
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show another spot up here that a lot
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might not realize is on the same
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Road featured in Jim car's Liar
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Liar there's the house right
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there covered that in great detail
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before but but I always like to point
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that out some might not
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realize that it's
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located next to
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some from some horror
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franchises next door
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neighbors Maximillian if you recall in
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peewee's big adventure when Paul Rubin
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playing
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Peewee also a corner of
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Oxley and Milan
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he wrecks his bike which I know a lot
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about
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that don't take it down any sweet slides
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which he didn't but he hit this curb
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flipped over into the yard I meant to do
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that that was located next to his
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fictional home right here on
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Oxley same
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corner I know you are but what am I I
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know you are but what am I I know you
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are but what am I I know you are but
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what am I I know you are but what am I
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Infinity no I'm not you
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are so dang cool now if you ever make
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the trk the
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pilgrimage to the Peewee house don't
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stop here after getting a photo walk
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down one block that direction for a
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couple of other iconic
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spots yeah everything's in the same
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general
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vicinity in the the same vicinity yep
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one block corner of Oxley and
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there and as I've stated very familiar
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landmarks through this
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town Focus not on some of those that are
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very famili and
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obvious but upon the ones that might not
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be quite as obvious like the Mama's
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Family home from the TV sitcom right
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television I believe in that intro the
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opening credit sequence with the theme
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song she came out here picked up the
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paper and walked back
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in pretty much looks the same all these
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decades
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later also pay no attention to whatever
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or whoever pops out from behind that
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hedge that's yeah that's n of our
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concern not too far away have commuted
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to Fletcher a probably about another
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half mile to a mile a mile give or
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take the sitcom step by step starring
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Suzanne
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Summers who was in one of my favorite
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sitcoms of all time thre
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company which was filmed you know around
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Santa Monica and that at least the
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exteriors were but here in South
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Pasadena she went on to do the show step
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by step and they use this Homestead this
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facade was used as the intro and for you
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know shots in between different scenes
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and whatnot when it aired I kind of
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considered it at that time a modern
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a modern version of The Brady Bunch not
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precisely but kind of similar with the
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melding of two
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families okay got one more Street to go
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to with with a lot of places on that
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road heading over there now commuted
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just a block or two over to the corner
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of
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Huntington and Bushnell
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Avenue oh yes
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while I am familiar with all the spots
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I've gone to I am most familiar with
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this road and here many
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times iconic if I were to wager if I
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were a beding man I would say every
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single house on this block has been used
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in something whether it be a car
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commercial any other sort of commercial
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a TV ad newspaper ad
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photography magazines feature films
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movies television shows all the just one
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this one block of Bushnell starting
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there on Huntington and going this way
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the many times over the years you know
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seven or eight years that I've been
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occasionally stopping off here when I'm
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in this area always seems to be
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something happening one of the houses is
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kind of tapered off for filming or there
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are signs saying no parking because
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they're sing doing some sort of Drive
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drive you know angle or whatnot car
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commercials
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especially because I do not know the
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history of every
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single building and facade and home I'm
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going to just pinpoint the ones out that
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I have locked up here in the top of my
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head that I know very well oh yeah push
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now really can see why it's
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chosen to be utilized and put on camera
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so
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much by location Scouts which should be
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an interesting job to be a location
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Scouts try to figure out where things
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are going to be
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filmed now in bttf Back to the Future
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they covered up these palm trees and
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they do that with a lot of films they're
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trying to put in the midwest or to keep
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it vague they will put wrapping of
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foliage around the palm trees just to
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confuse just to confuse the viewer now
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over here was Biff's Grandma's house
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part two of Back to the
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Future going to get my car
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grandma and of course the
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tree up here George McFly climbed up
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into which is located right there and
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just across the way from Lorraine's
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house which is the one on the far right
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about Biff through the the ball up top
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on that little balcony but this was also
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used in old school with with will frell
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they had the party in the backyard and
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will farell did a little streaking right
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down through
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here right underneath the M the George
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McFly tree now fun fact next to the old
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school
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house was the's house and back to the
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future but it was also using teenwolf
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and Michael J fox was filming Teen Wolf
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when Eric stz played Marty McFly on this
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very road before Eric Stoltz was removed
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and Michael J fox took over so Michael J
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fox did two movies in probably a year
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span here on Bushnell Teen Wolf and Back
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to the Future pretty cool right
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oh that gentleman's riding in the same
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area that Doc Brown maybe he's going
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back there to the garage at Biff's
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Grandma's house I've never really had
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the the gumption to climb up in this but
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I know others that
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have go up onto to the
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branch now this Branch some assume that
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it's this branch that George climbed up
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on there crisen Glover climbed up on but
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I do believe it was this one they make
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you think that he climbed up that Branch
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there but then when they are kind of
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filming it from low down here it's this
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branch that he is
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on of
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course laying down right there in the
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road
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was Michael J
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fox how many years ago there was an
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inscription over here see if it's still
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here oh yeah check it
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out still
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here barely can see
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it right
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there Back to the
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Future filmed here
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1985 very faintly o this route right
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here looks like a looks like a crocodile
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head doesn't
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it down the way just a bit was where
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George McFly's house was
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fictionally and the 30-some house the
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television show 30s something was
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directly across from George mcfli here
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it is I only watched a few episodes of
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that show for some reason it slipped
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past my radar
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but I do know one of the guys in the
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show was also in field of dreams and I
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love the movie Field of Dreams Kevin
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cner and this is the
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house and as far as proximity goes from
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the 30-some
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house science fiction theater George
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McFly that laundry scene is in the back
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of this house as
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well you're not going to be picking a
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fight dad dad dad dad Daddyo and if you
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stop off here to see the BTT
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spots which a lot do and you want to
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visit a a very deep
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cut down here at the end of the block on
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Bush now two homes used in ghost
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ad not a lot of seen that one it's kind
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of like Leonard part
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six another
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Cosby but not a lot of saying but if you
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have seen ghost ad and you want to see
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both the homes as they were fictionally
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shown to be neighbors they are neighbors
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in real life both of these houses showed
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up on film here at the end of Bushnell
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ghost ad those houses might be might be
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haunted a lot of history here South
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Pasadena all within a a couple of miles
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a series of
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blocks and I can see why thing about
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South Pasadena it sits in for a lot of
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different places around the country you
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never really know you never doesn't
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really feel like Southern California
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here in South pass in a lot of ways you
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think you're in the midwest which I
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think is why directors and producers and
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you
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know location Scouts utilize this area
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because it doesn't really have an LA
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Vibe even though it's in the greater
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suburb Los Angeles area you wouldn't
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look at this and think oh that's La
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unless knew
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beforehand right at least that's how I
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feel oh yeah walking through some movie
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history there I don't know of any other
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Road really that has this much of stuff
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that I am familiar with now a lot of
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other roads will have one or two spots
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but this has a numerous amount of houses
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and it's all it feels like I'm in the
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movies walking through here which is
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pretty dang cool and not you or anyone
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else on this planet is going to make me
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change my
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mind just two houses down from
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lra which is weird he was climbing up in
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the tree I mean they're neighbors
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probably sees her every day he could
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just easily have a conversation with
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her you know there's his home there's
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George's and there's Lorraine's also the
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Teen Wolf
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house yep two movies that I really love
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on the same street within a year of each
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other mid 880s about five or six years
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ago I passed through here and this home
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right here was for sale I looked it up
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definitely out of my price range and I
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would say that's
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probably probably not one of the nicer
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ones on this
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block if you really want to really kick
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in the pants look up some of the houses
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in South Pasadena
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woo yeah Biff's
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grandma she was wealthy
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one other fun
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fact they did film part of part two when
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Michael J fox is walking across there
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and he's looking at the binoculars at
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Biff's Grandma's house they didn't they
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didn't record it on that side of the
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road they used the universal Backlot so
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they didn't they didn't actually have
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him over there which is strange they
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might not have got permission from those
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neighbors fun fact that's going to do it
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for for
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today 2 hours it took exactly 2 hours I
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just looked at my phone it is now
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precisely 1:00 p.m. started at 11:00
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ended at 1 2 hours was not in a rush
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very slow pace anyone could have their
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car do what I just did as the recording
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of this it is a Sunday so not a lot of
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traffic but once you kind of up here out
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of the greater LA area a a suburb way
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way away traffic's not too bad in in
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this area no matter what day of the week
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it is you could go he could hit all the
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spots that I did in 2 hours a lot of 80s
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early '90s some late 70s mostly 80s
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spots at least a dozen or more call this
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the
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80s South Pasadita tour there are a lot
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of other spots I did not show but I
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wanted to want show the ones that I kind
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of know have a special place in my heart
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and I know really well just from years
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of visiting this area hope you enjoyed
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it I'll see you in the next video the
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Vlog is
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over for real though isn't this a
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beautiful area