IT (1990) Filming Locations In Vancouver Canada - Pennywise The Clown / Losers Club Then & Now Tour
IT (1990) Filming Locations
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Welcome everyone. Adam Dwoo here as a
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recording of a Sunday, March 9th, 2025.
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I am standing on a street corner here in
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a very dreary, rainy, overcast, and kind
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of miserable day here in the greater
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Vancouver area of British Columbia,
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Canada. Another bucket list filming
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location I will be covering today. a
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place I've wanted to go for most of my
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life. The 1990 classic it minisseries
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directed by Tommy Lee Wallace of
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Halloween fame who also did Season of
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the Witch Halloween 3 and he also did
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Fright Night 2 some cult classics.
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I'm going to cover some some Penny Wise.
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Tim Curry playing Pennywise and then
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All-Star cast. And the first scene,
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well, the first pivotal scene that I
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always remember my mind happened right
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here on Third Street at Bill and
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Georgie's house, which is
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located, right over here. Nerd Locations
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is with me as well. Yeah, this movie
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scared the living crap out of me when I
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was a kid. I wouldn't even go near a
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storm drain. Tim Curry. Epic
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performance. One of the most scary par
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villains of all time. And we're on the
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street. Adam, we're right here where
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Georgie sells the boat. And it's
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raining. It's appropriately raining for
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us today. I'm inviting you to join me
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and Nerd locations. We're going to
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traverse around the greater Vancouver
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area and check out some Penny Wise. I'm
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inviting you to join me and Nerd
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locations.
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shall
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you? We all float down here. They all
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float. Gezy's house is right here. It's
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been It's been repainted and changed
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just a little bit, but there is a scene
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when their mother is playing the piano,
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which later in the movie, the piano
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comes into play. She's sitting right
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inside that open window. Well, the
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window's closed, but in the movie it was
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open. And then it pans up and then it
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goes into a set into Bill's room and
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Georgie's in there and he gives him the
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the paper boat. He was a little under
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the weather so he wasn't able to join
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his brother and he regretted that the
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rest of his life and that's part of the
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premise of the movie. The remakes were
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really good. It one and It Two came out
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I think in 2017 and a couple years
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later. I really really enjoyed those.
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The original one, the Stephen King
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miniseries, was uh was a TV show was a
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TV show miniseries and that's the one
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we're covering. So good. I highly re
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highly re recommend you checking it out.
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But Georgie walks out here, puts his
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little paper boat right here in the
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road, and the boat goes right down the
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road right here. And all these houses
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look exactly the same.
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I was kind of hoping it'd be downpouring
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so we could really get the elements of
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the water, but it's still a little bit
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of flow. Look at this. Look at this. You
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got the little bit of a You got the
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little bit of a
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flow going down
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here. Now, Nerd Locations has been here
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to this spot once before, but there's
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been a lot of spots you haven't been to.
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Yeah, it's time spot. But this spot, you
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call this the hero spot. This absolutely
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is the hero spot. Who doesn't remember
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this scene from the movie? Even if you
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only saw it once, you remember this
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scene. So, it went down about I don't
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know, one or two blocks. And punk band
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I've been listening to for my whole
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life. Gosh, probably since the early
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90s, Epitap Records, Pennywise, came up
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with their name from the
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miniseries. They started around the same
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time. In fact, off that self-titled
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album, they have a song called Penny
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Wise by the band Penny Wise. Evil lurks
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in his eyes. The clown they call
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Pennywise. He'll catch you by surprise.
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SS Georgie coming through. Of course,
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the now iconic yellow rain jacket, which
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is synonymous with Georgie. And the boat
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going
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down right there. Have the little
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construction
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pylons. And it was this corner here.
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This house here was painted a different
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different
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coloration. But right there, the corner
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of this
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alleyway is the spot. Corner of you say
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it was Liverpool. The corner street
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corner is Liverpool. Liverpool. I think
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I might have said Livingston, but there
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is no street sign in there. Someone
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might have grabbed that street sign as a
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little got themselves a little
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souvenir. But
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there is the corner. This house still
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painted the same blue. Georgie going by
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here. The boat. Oh no, it's going in the
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It's going in the sewer. And this is
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obviously they had Tim Curry down in a
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set, but this is the spot that the boat
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went into right here. That's the
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freaking spot right
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there. That is so
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eerie. Hi you,
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Georgie. Want a balloon
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bucko man? You're float too. You're
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float too. We all float. We all float.
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You'll float,
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too. Dude, that is so
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cool. Now, Scott on tape when I went to
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Toronto a while back, Scott showed me
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the drainage area from the
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remakes. So, I have seen both
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spots. Remakes were good, but come on.
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You got nothing beats that original 1990
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miniseries. I mean that's just that was
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my
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era. You got the angles here of Georgie
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leaning down his boat going underneath
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there. The houses behind still the
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same again. Tim Curry was down, you
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know, on a set in the sewer. He wasn't
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he wasn't right here underneath the
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ground.
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But absolutely fantastic.
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an iconic spot in horror
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history. All right, this is
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wild. The basketball hoop is still on
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the garage. Even though the garage has
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been repainted, there is still an
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archaic '9s
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era basketball hoop. That's right there
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where Georgie walks down and they have
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put trees up. You see that with a lot of
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houses, they'll put trees around it. I'm
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not sure if they just don't want people
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taking, you know, photos from the road
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or anything, but you see that in LA a
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lot. Or maybe they just want privacy.
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Either way, that's the that's the spot
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right there. Definitely a pivotal spot.
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Pivotal getting tongue tied. Pivotal
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spot in uh in horror film history right
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here. This is to me a top five horror
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movie spot of all time. Tim Curry as
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Pennywise, Georgie on the Boat.
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Everything still lines up. It's
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appropriately raining today, so can't
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beat it. Heck yeah, man. We got a lot to
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cover. A lot to cover. Let's do it. All
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right. About a mile away, half mile
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away. Not too far. So, this is Ben's
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house, which later on, Ben is played by
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John Ritter, who lost a lot of weight in
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his adult life, but when he was young is
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very heavy, and there's a lot of mocking
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of his his weight throughout the movie,
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both by the other characters and
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himself.
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Now, it's interesting. When I watched
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the movie, when he rides off on his
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bike, I always assumed he was going
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downhill and then went down another
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hill. But really, he's going uphill and
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then downhill, which is kind of kind of
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weird when you show up somewhere that
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you've seen so many times on film and
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then you're kind of disoriented by the
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angle of the road. But yeah, this is
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this is uphill. Yeah, the scene where
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he's sitting there on the side by the
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door. The door is still there and it
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wasn't directly in front. It's not a
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front angle of the house, but it's like
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a side view angle with the door over on
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this side. And then when he rides the
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bike off, kind of turns this direction.
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And this is the exact spot. Well, give
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or take a few feet where he rides the
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bike
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up and then he goes down. I think he
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takes a right right there. It's also
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interesting when you watch that movie.
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Uh, a lot of the terminology and the
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slang and the things that are said in
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there would probably not be in something
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today. Absolutely. It was a different
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time. Different era back in the 80s.
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They made this late ' 80s, early 90s.
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90. 1990, right? When this the series
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came out. Yeah. I think they shot it in
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' 89.
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It definitely gives the movie a little
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more uh little more. A little edge. A
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little more edgy. A little more edgy.
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You know what? I think that's the same
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stop sign.
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Surprised someone hasn't uh hasn't taken
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that sign down. The basketball hoop
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really blew my mind. But see, you look
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at this and I just assumed he was going
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straight downhill when the reality is
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it's up the hill and then down the other
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hill. Made it over to another spot. Now,
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I should say this first this these first
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few spots are in an area known as New
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Westminster, which I guess you'd call it
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a suburb on the outskirts of Vancouver.
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They're all in the greater Vancouver
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area. We're going to be going over to
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the Paramount Theater now, which was
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used in two different scenes, notable
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scenes from the film that had the
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greaser bullies, the, you know, the guys
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in the leather jackets and the slick
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back hair, which were the villains of
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the the film. Other than Pennywise,
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obviously, he was the main protagonist,
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but there was a lot of little subplots.
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But yeah, I'm in New Westminster,
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British Columbia.
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And the next block over is where the
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Paramount Theater is. Right right down
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there. Here it is. I was a Teenage
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Werewolf was what was playing
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when the whole Losers Club is what they
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Was it Losers Club or Losers Crew?
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Losers
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Club. We're all in there watching the
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movie here at the Paramount. I was a
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teenage werewolf. And then another time
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when Mike was coming walking down the
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street here, when they approached him,
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it was a different movie. It was not I'm
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a Teenage
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Werewolf. Everything's changed from this
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point
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on. You can see this angle over here
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when the
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shopkeeper is yelling at the the bullies
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to not put the firework in his pocket. a
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rocket in your pocket, which would have
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happened right
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here. And then both times you see you
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see this angle. The losers club's
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running down the running down the hill.
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But that looks all different now. You
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can see it kind of across the way. Cops
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work shoes not there anymore. A rocket
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in your
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pocket. It wasn't for that shop owner
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would have not ended well. the firework
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going off in your
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pocket. So, that's that's one of the two
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scenes that were right here. And of
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course, it's the original marquee,
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original Paramount sign. I was a teenage
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werewolf in all its glory was right
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there.
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Now, I do not know off top of my head if
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they filmed the interiors in here when
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they kick the soda off onto the
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bullies, but maybe it's a possibility.
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Holy cow, it's not even a theater
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anymore. It's a gentleman's club. You
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have to be 19 years or older to go. The
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losers club could have never even gone
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in
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here.
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Dang. Appropriate dress required. Wonder
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if clown suits would be allowed. I think
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so. You know, Pennywise can get a job in
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here. I'm Pennywise the dead
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clown getting a get a lap dance from uh
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Pennywise Penny Wise offering a two for
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one special on Sunday nights seems a
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Wait a second as I'm filming this it's
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Sunday. It is Sunday. Wait a second.
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Yeah, it is
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right. Yeah, it's Sunday the 9th of
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March as I'm recording this, man. Yeah,
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there it is right there. I was a teenage
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werewolf at 7 and
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9:30. It's obscured a little bit by the
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awning now, the evening wear awning, but
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that same metal poles there and
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everything. Here's where the losers
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club's running
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by.
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OG, not the remakes, the 90 miniseries
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Stephen King version. Epic. Epic.
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It also turns out that the very ending
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scene of the
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movie car is backing up was right here
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in town. Also, now obviously it's going
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to be a little out of order, but it's
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based on the locations we're going. So,
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if you're ever doing this yourself,
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realize that the very end of the movie
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was right here on the corner of Columbia
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and six the angle. We're standing
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underneath this awning because it is
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still raining. Got the umbrellas down.
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But right here is where Bill awakes
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Audra who is like in a sleep induced
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Pennywisees coma if you will is riding
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around on the bike the Hyo silver away.
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The bike is a very intricral part of the
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movie and it was right here from this
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angle looking up that the end of the
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scene the traffic jam scene took place
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right here in the middle of this road.
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traffic was
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stopped. Of course, it looks a lot
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different, you know, 35 years later, but
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there's the there's the angle right
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there. Very end of very last moment of
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the film before the credit roll. I
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believe the camera angle was kind of way
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far back. It was probably on a crane to
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get this to get this perspective, but
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yeah, you can see the blue awning over
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there is now a darker color awning.
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You can see those windows, the red van
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stopped, the bike right in the middle.
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They had a they had a warm embrace
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knowing that she
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was no longer under the grips of the
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clown they call Pennywise. Yeah, you
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just got to hard to comprehend that
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Richard Thomas was right there on a
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bicycle. What an all-star cast. Of
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course, Richard Thomas, known for John
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Boy and Walton's, the Walton's. Probably
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his most iconic role ever. He will
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forever be known as John Boy. Good
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night, John Boy. Good night, Mary
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Ellen. But I always know him from
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it. Wonder if anybody's ever recreated
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that scene and just stopped a bike right
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there in the middle middle of traffic.
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They probably wouldn't be too happy
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about that. They weren't happy in the
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movie. They weren't happy. That's true.
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Yes. This whole area has been developed
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drastically since back in the day. But
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this is where
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Stanley, when he's very young, he sees
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the mummy. This whole area is
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definitely grown up in condos
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and other living quarters.
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up here. Can't really find a way to get
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up close to the building, but the
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building is right
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there. We're just kind of driving around
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seeing this building might not even be
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in use anymore to be
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I don't know where the entrance is.
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Maybe around this side. It's wild how
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progress has just taken over this whole
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complex with this old house is still
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just sitting here in the tree protection
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area. Oh, it's from that angle right
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there. Wow, that's wild. New condos, old
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house definitely been fixed up and
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cleaned up and repainted since then. But
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this is the general vicinity of where
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the camera was looking up out of
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here. There's the staircase there.
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Stanley walks up. Now, older Stanley in
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the movie was played by the dad from
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License to Drive. Great actor. He's in a
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bunch of bunch of
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films. But he walks up that very
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staircase. Evidently, this is a private
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residence. You can see the sign over
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there. It says private property once you
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get a little bit closer up. So, not
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going to walk up the stairs.
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But we'll get get a little closer than
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this. Yeah. Here he is walking up the
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stairs
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here. So there's the stairs. There's the
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little walkway
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up. And that really uh escarred him for
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life. It did not end well for Stanley.
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He uh he had some real issues with it
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when Mike called and said that it was
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back. Stanley couldn't handle it all
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because of this moment right here.
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on. Again, I just love the fact that
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it's raining. It just really adds really
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adds to this
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ambiance. We all float down here. All
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right, we've made it over to the area
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known as Burnaby. Burnaby
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Lake. Couple spots over in this area.
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And Lorianne, I believe the character's
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name
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was her home was here. The very
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beginning of the film, of the
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miniseries, I should say, took place at
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this house where she is riding her
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tricycle. Really just a creepy opening
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to the
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miniseries. She's singing the itsy-bitsy
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spider. It was raining just like it is
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right now.
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Well, I take that back. The storm was
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making its way in and the mom had
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her laundry out on the line. There's the
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angle there. She rides by on the
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tricycle. And then when Mike shows up
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after, you know,
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Pennywise did his thing in the backyard
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with the
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laundry, Mike is over there with the
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police detectives and the ambulance and
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everything over on that side of the
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streets on the corner of McGill and
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Esmond. That's when it was raining. Just
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almost the same exact kind of
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precipitation is coming down now. Not
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too hard, but not too not too soft.
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Itsy-bitsy spider scene right
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Perfect, perfect creepy intro to that
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movie. Just for a little reference
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there. Starts off here in front and then
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makes her
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way around this way singing the
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song. Now, these trees have grown up
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considerably. So, when Mike shows up
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later, he was the librarian and the
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detective, "No, I'm the police officer.
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You're the librarian." And then Mike
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from here have it all stansions off.
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Walk over here. And I believe this is
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the same tree that he sees Georgie's
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picture right against here. Georgie's
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picture would have been right
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here. Oh, you know what? I wonder if you
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could see that like pylon right there.
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And in fact, you can look at that. So
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there's the tree. There's Mike walking
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up. There's Georgie's picture that he
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picks up. And look behind the tree.
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There is that whatever that is behind
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this tree. Okay, that's pretty dang
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cool. That is pretty dang awesome. And
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Adam, this is another hero moment in the
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film because Mike, this is the moment
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Mike realized it is back and that's when
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he makes the calls to all the rest of
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the loser club. So, this right here is
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what kickstarted it all. And it's
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actually the scene of the of where we
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see Pennywise get to have his first
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current day victim at the time. Yeah. So
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iconic hero
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spot. That is so neat that that whatever
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that metal thing is is still
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there. We just talked to the owner. He
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was leaving and we told him what we were
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doing. He goes, "Oh, people stop by here
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pretty often. Feel free to take some
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photos." So very nice guy. Check out the
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behind Mike's head there. The shed is
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still back over
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there. This is these trees are seen
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pretty pretty prominently. I don't think
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the bus stop thing was
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here, but there is the staircase that
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the mom was going up. They fixed the
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house up
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dramatically, but right there was where
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the laundry was on the
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line
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and tricycle was right here. Basically,
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there was a sidewalk that went
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in and that's where she sees Penny. So
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creepy because you see the lot. You see
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the It just always still resonates. I
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always remember that opening scene just
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kind of terrifying me when I was younger
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giving me the chills with the laundry
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and then Penny Wise is there and then
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all of a sudden Penny Wise does that
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creepy smile. Best I can tell the doll
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that Mike was standing was doll was
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exactly right there. He picked the doll
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up from right in that particular spot. I
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counted the etchings in the concrete
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which is the original concrete from the
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sidewalk and that would have been where
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where the doll was right there. Yeah. So
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it all kind of started right back there
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the beginning of the film and then right
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after that the credits roll up. Tommy
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Lee
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Wallace did a fine job directing that
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and it came across the screen right
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there when Mike is picking up the doll
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right in this spot right here. right
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here where it all started.
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Six kids missing in six days is not a
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coincidence, Captain. Okay, one last
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look here. I'll kind of show where she's
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going up the
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stairs, which is right
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there. And then when the mom's looking
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down, she got the tricycle. They have
22:28
since gotten rid of the sidewalk that
22:30
goes out to the main road. But this
22:32
tree, notice this tree here has grown up
22:34
considerably since 1990. But notice
22:37
across the way are soccer fields or is a
22:41
soccer field. Still a soccer field. So
22:44
there's that
22:46
tree. Camera angle looking from that
22:49
direction at the
22:52
tree. Sidewalk would have been right
22:56
here. And then you pan around and then
23:00
you
23:01
got soccer field. So her tricycle was
23:04
right here. And then you got the soccer
23:06
field off in the distance. In fact, in
23:10
the rain, there's a riveting game of
23:11
soccer going on right
23:13
now over at the same field. Pretty
23:16
awesome. All right, this is interesting.
23:18
On the same block, they utilize two
23:22
locations right next to each other. The
23:25
beginning of the movie and then also the
23:26
Dairy Inn where they all meet up for
23:29
dinner. The exteriors were right here
23:33
next to the intro scene.
23:36
That's
23:40
bizarre. This is where they had the
23:40
dinner. This is also when they drove out
23:42
here dramatically all in the back of the
23:44
car
23:45
together. Look at
23:47
this. H, dude. It's right next to each
23:51
other. I had no idea. Hollywood magic.
23:56
Yeah. Yeah. Here's the scene. The car
23:59
pulls out right
24:05
here. I'm not sure what this is. This I
24:05
don't know if this is a private
24:06
residence. I think it's a nursing home.
24:08
Now, the Overland according to this sign
24:12
right
24:14
here, the
24:30
Yeah, car was right underneath there. It
24:30
came out of the restaurant, a fictional
24:32
restaurant which was also here in this
24:35
area. We're going to go by
24:37
there and they drove out. Very dramatic
24:49
scene. So yeah, you can park in the same
24:49
spot, hit two
24:58
spots. Amazing
24:58
building. Pile in the cars like a sports
25:01
car. They all pile in. And I always
25:02
whenever I watch that scene, I'm like,
25:04
that's a lot of people to cram in that
25:06
car with the top down. Then they roll
25:08
out of here and go make their way over
25:10
to the hospital. So they pull out of
25:11
here, turn this corner, and off to the
25:14
hospital. All right, I got some good
25:16
news. the interiors of the restaurant
25:19
that they ate at when
25:21
the in part two of the
25:23
miniseries and the loser club grow up
25:26
and they all meet back up after Mike
25:28
calls all of them with the exception of
25:30
Stanley who did not spoiler alert did
25:32
not show up but all the other
25:34
ones was inside what is now the Jade
25:38
Palace and I was reading online that
25:40
this place was closed and not in
25:43
business anymore. It's been a variety of
25:45
things
25:46
since the cast was here, but inside here
25:51
was the pivotal reming of the Losers
25:54
Club. We're going to eat inside the J
25:58
Palace Chinese Restaurant and see if
26:00
anything matches up. This is so awesome
26:03
that I didn't think I thought we were
26:04
just going to be peeking in the window,
26:05
but yeah, we're going to we're going to
26:08
eat a meal in here. Fans of the movie
26:11
might remember this is where Beverly got
26:14
a fortune cookie with a little bit of a
26:16
surprise. Yeah. Think we can find a
26:18
fortune cookie in here? Hopefully it
26:20
does not end that way for us today.
26:22
Let's give it a shot. Here's the front
26:24
doors they w that they were walking in.
26:27
They already removed all the like wood
26:29
paneling. That was all in here. It was a
26:31
very unique all the crabs here they can
26:34
go with. This is the front. This is the
26:36
front desk and they would eat over in
26:37
that area. It's busy in here. I cannot
26:39
believe how busy it is in here. This
26:41
place is thriving. The front counter has
26:43
been renovated a little bit, but the
26:45
front door looks pretty similar when
26:47
they were all walking in. Chandelier has
26:49
been replaced and all that wood tiling
26:52
is
27:00
gone. Right. So, everything in here is
27:00
completely different. But in the very
27:02
far back room from where we're at is
27:04
where John Ritter's character met Eddie
27:07
Spaghetti for the first time. And it was
27:09
in the back
27:11
corner, kind of away from the back room.
27:14
And here's a moment when Richie walks
27:16
in. He gets kind of gets cold feet. He
27:19
has to get himself motivated to meet the
27:20
rest of them and try to be the funny
27:22
guy. There's the counter. We put our
27:25
name in to find the seat. This place,
27:26
again, this place is very busy. Right
27:28
over in here was where the dinner scene
27:31
was against this back little cubby hole.
27:33
Still the structural wall portion's the
27:35
same. And that archway would have been
27:37
right here. So that dinner scene would
27:40
have taken place over in this little
27:41
cubby hole area of the back section. And
27:45
then the archway over there still still
27:47
looks the same over there. That archway.
27:49
There it is. There's the front counter
27:50
and all that. But yeah, it's so busy in
27:52
here. There they all are
27:54
sitting getting ready to have their
27:56
fortune cookies. One thing about this
27:57
scene that kind of irritates me a little
27:59
bit is they're back there eating for a
28:01
couple of hours and then immediately
28:03
it's time for the fortune cookies and
28:05
the entire tablecloth is spotless. Like
28:08
not one drop of food was spilled out on
28:11
the
28:11
tablecloth. I don't know. That always
28:13
kind of kind of was stuck in my mind.
28:16
And we got ourselves some wonton.
28:26
Little fried and a little steamed. And
28:26
then we got the drink here. All right,
28:29
successful exiting out the door. Got the
28:32
cast and crew. I just think of
28:34
the all the amazing crew and actors that
28:37
were inside of there. Just a
28:39
cavalcade of
28:41
talent, very well-known talent that
28:44
spent probably multiple days inside this
28:46
building. Cuz you figure they had quite
28:48
a few scenes of them all being
28:50
reintroduced to each other. Then they
28:52
had them having a good time. Then they
28:53
had the scenes of them arguing. Then
28:55
they had the fortune cookie scene. Now
28:59
this place is a dim sum place. And we
29:02
asked if they had fortune cookies. They
29:04
said
29:09
no. But the server, we were talking to
29:09
her. She was very interested that the
29:11
movie was filmed here. In fact, she took
29:13
a couple pictures that I showed her from
29:15
the movie and she goes, "Oh yeah, this
29:17
is definitely it. But it's definitely
29:18
new owners and not what it not the same
29:23
look as what it once was. All right,
29:24
we're going to move on. That was a The
29:26
food was amazing, right? Absolutely
29:28
amazing. If anybody comes up here to do
29:30
ID locations, this is a must stop and
29:33
grab some food and insanely busy. I
29:36
mean, incredibly busy. All right, let's
29:39
move on. We got a lot to cover still.
29:40
All right, we drove about a half hour,
29:42
maybe a little farther than that from
29:44
where we just were with traffic. We're
29:46
over here now at the Queen Mary School,
29:48
which is where Benny
29:51
Ben is first introduced his young self
29:54
when he's having the flashback scenes
29:56
and he gets bullied. He walks out of the
29:59
school and he walks down a pathway right
30:01
over here and then he crosses the road,
30:04
goes down the hill where the bullies are
30:07
waiting him at a fence line. See if we
30:08
can match some things up here.
30:24
So, here's the angle. There's a fence up
30:24
now. The hedges were a little more
30:26
prominent back
30:27
then, but here's where he walks
30:32
through. See
30:35
the See the schoolhouse right there.
30:42
And that's what it looked like in the
30:45
scene. You can see it looks exactly the
30:48
same as he walks down these very
30:50
stairs. And then he standing at the base
30:53
here. And he kind of shows his
30:57
perspective looking down because he
30:59
knows it's not going to be a good day
31:01
for him with the
31:02
bullies down the
31:05
hill. There's the angle. very unique
31:08
walkway
31:09
out with how it's how elevated the sides
31:13
are. And then he just follows this
31:16
pathway down across that busy road and
31:19
then down the hill. And there's Beverly
31:21
Marsh
31:23
there standing in that
31:35
interests. and way down the hill from
31:36
school past these
31:39
hedges looking for a fire hydrant. In
31:42
fact, this road is pretty steep. You can
31:43
see when in the movie when he's walking,
31:45
you can tell how steep it is. They have
31:47
these
31:48
little sections of the concrete that way
31:51
you don't slip go down the deep steep
31:55
incline. Now, the house behind Benny
31:57
when he's walking down the hill has been
32:00
changed. It's a new new development out
32:02
there now. But the fire hydrant's still
32:04
there. The storm drain still there.
32:07
Again, when you when you're watching
32:08
something, you know it's a steep hill.
32:10
But when you're standing here in person,
32:12
you realize just how steep it really is.
32:15
There's the angle. There's the storm
32:16
drain. There's the same fire hydrant. At
32:18
least the same piping where the fire
32:21
hydrant would be. There's a new house.
32:23
And the bullies would have been right
32:25
over here behind what was a picket fence
32:27
that's been removed kind of in this
32:29
general area. picket fence is gone, but
32:31
the hedges are still there in the form
32:33
of a, you know, a row of bushes. Oh,
32:36
look. It's the fat
32:47
were. They pulled a knife on him and he
32:48
ended up kicking the kicking the hand
32:50
away with the knife away and then he
32:51
plummeted past the bushes and down this
32:55
hill. I don't think these houses were
32:56
here yet. And then it magically goes to
33:00
a totally different location underneath
33:02
the bridge. But this is kind of where it
33:04
was. This area looks a lot different now
33:06
that it did then. The picket fence is
33:08
gone. But there is definitely a steep
33:09
incline. You can see how steep this is
33:12
when he would have rolled down the
33:21
hill. Yeah. I kind of wish kind of wish
33:21
that old house was still there, but this
33:23
is the spot right here.
33:26
Fire hydrants and drainage ditches don't
33:28
lie. All right, cruising along a few
33:31
miles to the next spot. And in fact, I
33:33
just mentioned it, but we're now going
33:35
to the bridge, or at least under the
33:37
bridge, where a lot of scenes took
33:38
place. This is one spot I'm really
33:40
looking forward to seeing. It's where a
33:42
couple key points happened early on in
33:46
the series and then a little bit
33:48
later. And it's really the official
33:50
start of where the losers club began
33:53
where they all kind of formed a bond
33:57
together. And it's we found a parking
33:59
spot over here and we're going to cross
34:01
over make our way past the
34:04
ravine down that
34:07
way. It has not stopped raining all day.
34:31
here is where Ben was being chased by
34:31
bullies, met up with his future friends,
34:34
and then this is where they all met a
34:37
little later on underneath this bridge.
34:40
They built the dam, they stopped up the
34:42
water, the officer showed up, and he was
34:44
annoyed. He's like, "What are you doing?
34:45
You're stopping the water flow." And
34:47
then he let them know, "Do not go out
34:50
alone. Make sure you always stick
34:58
together." And they uh they utilize that
34:58
that advice to the
35:13
end. Dang. This is really cool. This is
35:13
really
35:19
cool. Thinking maybe it was over here
35:19
that this angle that most the most of
35:22
the scenes took place there. Probably
35:24
down over in this
35:26
section. I found a couple clips where
35:28
the bullies pull up. So, what are you
35:30
two girls doing down
35:32
here? And then they looked at the dam
35:35
right over there. Yeah, this is the spot
35:37
right here. This is totally it. The
35:40
three of them all became friends. At
35:41
first, this is where they were throwing
35:42
the rocks in. They said, "We can do
35:46
it." Obviously, this might be, you know,
35:48
a few feet off, but this is the This is
35:51
definitely the
35:59
location. Again, this is the spot where
36:00
they all met down here, all the friends.
36:02
The Losers Club, 1990, original
36:04
miniseries version. starting something
36:08
iconic right down here at this very spot
36:12
underneath the bridge along this
36:14
waterway. All right. So, when Jonathan
36:16
Brandis asked for help and they say they
36:19
go to the adults, he say, "Oh, when you
36:21
grow up, you stop believing." There was
36:23
a log right
36:25
here. And then
36:32
Brandice walks this way, gets emotional,
36:32
and then he says, "Help me." that very
36:35
dramatic scene where he says, "Help me."
36:37
He's standing right
36:39
here because th that tree is the same
36:44
tree, which means this very a thin I'm
36:47
sorry, there's a thin tree and then
36:49
there's the bigger one right behind it.
36:51
So, the log was right there that they
36:53
were sitting on. That's the spot right
36:55
there where they're all
36:57
together. That is so freaking cool, man.
37:00
That is wild. That is the tree. There's
37:03
Brandice right there. There is that very
37:06
unique tree looking back the other way
37:08
from the rest of their perspective. He's
37:11
asking for help from his best friends,
37:14
his only friends, the losers club. And
37:17
that is the actual spot right there. It
37:21
blows my mind right
37:24
there. Dang, that's
37:27
cool. This is the spot. That's the tree.
37:30
He's getting very emotional right here.
37:39
You killed my brother George, you
37:39
bastard. Let's see you
37:42
now. Let's see you now.
37:52
Yes. Too good. Then after that ask, he
37:52
asks for help. They all get up. They all
37:54
hug him in the same spot right there. in
37:59
that very spot right
38:07
there. Let that sink
38:07
in. Pretty
38:27
cool. This is looking the other way.
38:27
So just give the
38:29
bearings the log they were all sitting
38:32
on right there. They would have been
38:35
looking that
38:37
direction. He would have been standing
38:39
over there asking for help. And Pipeline
38:42
Road is up that direction. So easily
38:45
accessible. Just park I don't know/4
38:47
mile down the way and just walk over
38:56
Definitely the Georgie spot and the
38:56
intro scene with the tricycle. Amazing.
38:59
I would say those two and this one.
39:01
Those are those are the three month
39:02
those are the three hero
39:04
shots. But we're not
39:06
done. We got more. Right. If you had
39:10
told me when I was 12 years old watching
39:12
this movie that I would be standing
39:14
here. All right. We're now walking over
39:15
to Beaver Lake, I think it's called. Not
39:18
too far from where we just were at the
39:19
bridge part.
39:21
same general
39:23
vicinity. And this is that
39:26
section where they look across the lake.
39:30
Kind of a
39:31
horrifying lake if you ask me, just
39:34
because they had the little concrete
39:36
pylon, the home of
39:53
This is the angle from here. Yeah. Right
39:53
from this like where the sign is. Yeah.
39:55
Where the clear angles.
40:05
This is like an unforgettable spot.
40:05
Straight away that way is where
40:06
Pennywise's house was. And right out
40:08
there is where he was standing. Standing
40:10
right out there. Yep.
40:12
Dude, look at that. Still looks the same
40:14
with the tree line.
40:21
Unbelievable. That's
40:21
it. They would have built a little
40:24
concrete bunker right over there. You
40:27
know, I always thought maybe that was
40:28
really there, but now that I'm here,
40:30
obviously, it was a set piece.
40:33
I thought the same thing cuz it looks
40:36
like something that was abandoned that
40:37
they just used in the movie, but nope.
40:40
They set dress it or whatever is there
40:43
isn't there anymore.
40:46
Oh, there we
40:47
go. Look at
40:55
that. Wow. And obviously those two sewer
40:55
pieces were also set dressing. That is
40:59
amazing. D. Look at
41:02
that right there.
41:22
This is eerie just standing
41:22
here. This is the home of
41:32
pink to give some bearings even though
41:32
it's not in view from where the bridge
41:34
is. The bridge is right behind me.
41:35
Couple hundred yards up. Take a right.
41:37
Another couple hundred yards. The lake
41:38
and the layer of Penny Wise is right
41:40
over there. This section is where the
41:42
adults later show back up to defeat the
41:45
clown. They right here, the sports car
41:48
pulled up right here. They all get out.
41:50
They're putting their game faces on.
41:52
They're talking about how they're all
41:54
seven now locked in, ready to defeat
41:57
this evil
41:59
clown. Richie makes a statement. What
42:01
are we going to do now? Sing Kumbaya.
42:03
That was right in here. You can see this
42:05
turn. You can see all this and then they
42:07
traverse down. It's the only time really
42:10
you see the adults at the
42:16
bridge. John Ritter, Harry Anderson, and
42:16
the rest of them walk down this pathway
42:19
and carry that way past that tree I
42:21
showed earlier and then over to go into
42:24
the into the layer of the
42:27
clown. So dang cool. Couple more spots
42:30
left. All right, the last spot we're
42:32
going to stop off at. There are one or
42:33
two other spots, but I feel like they
42:36
are not really as vital and
42:39
antilimactic in comparison to what we've
42:41
already seen. We've been to some pretty
42:44
monumental spots in the
42:46
miniseries. And we're going to end here
42:48
at Beverly Marsh's house, which now has
42:52
two doors. There's only one door back in
42:54
the day. It was a different color. It
42:55
was red originally when she was young
42:58
and then a little different color when
43:00
she came back here as an adult.
43:03
But the scene, well, there's a bunch of
43:05
scenes, a lot of scenes
43:07
here. There's one where Tim Curry as
43:09
Penny Wise is right there at the door
43:13
when she arrives later in life when she
43:15
was a little older, returning to her
43:17
former home where her and her abusive
43:19
dad
43:21
lived. The thing that's really really
43:23
interesting about this area is just how
43:27
how cool it looks with the power poles
43:29
and the electric wires all stretching
43:31
down here. And it is downpouring right
43:35
now. But when you think of that
43:37
miniseries, you
43:39
cannot underestimate the awesomeness of
43:41
this
43:48
location. There's the scene that she
43:48
shows back up. She sees the name Marsh
43:52
right on the side over here. Knocks on
43:55
the door or rings the doorbell. I can't
43:57
remember which. And then the older lady
43:58
lets her in. Turns out that ended up
44:01
being like a zombie version of her dad
44:02
that was disguised as the old woman was
44:05
really creepy. Also, the bullies were
44:08
there was another scene where the
44:09
bullies were right here with Beverly and
44:11
one of them was like holding her hair
44:13
and they were just kind of like up in
44:14
her personal space and the neighbor was
44:17
not wanting to help. I think guess the
44:18
neighbor would have been right over
44:19
there right at that house. Yep. Straight
44:21
away. And then also Ben was right here.
44:25
Very sad Ben when he realized that the
44:28
poem he wrote for her, he did not get
44:30
the credit for that poem. There it is
44:33
right there. That was after right after
44:34
Jonathan Brandice rode off down this
44:37
very
44:38
sidewalk. Beverly giving him the loving
44:41
eyes thinking that he wrote the poem.
44:43
Something that she admitted later that
44:45
she really did know it was
44:52
Ben. This is just such a such a great
44:52
little street when it comes to this
44:54
miniseries. And there's Beverly when
44:56
she's running out of the
45:06
house, looking the other way.
45:06
Obviously, camera's definitely getting
45:08
rained on. And then there's Tim Curry
45:10
right there in front of the double doors
45:13
when he does the beep beep to his nose
45:15
and then he does that really horrific
45:16
laugh, that gut-wrenching laugh when he
45:19
before he steps back
45:26
inside. Then she looks back and the
45:26
house is all boarded up. It was never
45:28
was abandoned. Nobody was living in
45:30
there since they moved out. There really
45:32
was no old lady. It's all in her mind.
45:35
It was all Penny Wise playing tricks on
45:37
her. Again, if you're playing a drinking
45:39
game on how many times I said penny
45:40
wise, it's not going to end well for
45:42
you. So, please don't do that. I've said
45:43
it a lot. The Beverly Marsh House. There
45:46
were a few houses on this block that
45:48
have been torn down. There was one here
45:50
and there was one here and there was one
45:51
there. There were three. One of these is
45:53
where he was hiding. And Beverly walked
45:57
over and asked him what he was doing.
45:58
He's behind like a little thorn bush
46:00
that was kind of over in this general
46:02
area. Could have been right here. It was
46:04
kind of hard to tell. Yeah. Tim Curry
46:07
right there at that door. There's the
46:10
scene. There's the gut-wrenching laugh.
46:12
Decided only a half mile from here is
46:14
Mike's house and the school. So, we're
46:16
going to end over there. So, yeah, just
46:18
try to imagine 1989 when they were
46:21
filming it. The legend Tim Curry right
46:24
there doing his thing. I remember
46:26
earlier I was talking about the pivotal
46:28
moment when Bill was on the bike and
46:32
stopped traffic
46:34
and with Audra. She came back from being
46:38
in the clown reduced coma if you want to
46:40
call it that.
46:42
It was all on the It was on silver hyo
46:44
silver away was like a big key point of
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the of the miniseries where they were
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riding the bike around from the school
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over
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here and Mike's house is right next to
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the school. So really it really is
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proximity. You could take the bike out
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and that was his house right here. That
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blue house. Yeah. And then we're getting
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definitely getting downpoured on right
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now. But so this is when they're putting
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the spokes in the tire. This is the same
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scene. See the chain link behind them
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Not just any cards,
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bicycles. They're riding the bike
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through
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here. There's a lot of There's a lot of
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plot points in the movie or not the
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miniseries. I mean, I call it a movie.
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It's a movie, but it was on
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Silver. All right, that's going to do it
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for today. It's cold. It's wet. It's
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rainy. We did it. Any last thoughts?
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It was awesome day. Perfect weather.
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Perfect. Perfect. Well, perfect for
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this. Perfect for this. But Adam, yes.
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Does it
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float? Oh, it floats. We all float down
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here. We all float. Thanks to Nerd
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Locations for helping out. We did it.
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and I'll see you in the next video, the
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vlog. We all float. Oh, we float. We all
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float down here.