Fletch (1985) Filming Locations In Santa Monica - Undiscovered Spots Finally Found With 80s Life
Fletch (1985) Filming Locations
w/ Kurt From 80s Life
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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today's adventure brings me starts off
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at the Santa Monica Pier as the
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recording of this Wednesday September
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13th 2023 you can see the historic Pier
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behind me I am going to be covering a
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portion of the filming locations from
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one of my favorite comedies of all time
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and probably next to Vacation my
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favorite Chevy Chase film ever Fletch
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Irwin M Fletcher you choose
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I'm inviting you to join
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me shall you took me about hour and 45
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minutes to 2 hours to get here from
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Orange County it's currently
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10:30 probably not possible I mean it
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would be but it would take you from Dust
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Till Dawn or From Dawn till Dusk or one
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of those to to do all the locations in
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one day so I'm just going to concentrate
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on the Santa Monica area the vicinity
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the greater Santa Monica region if you
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will I'm going meeting up with a friend
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who was going to be covering all the
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locations and he said hey why don't you
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meet at me out here and you can show the
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spots here and then over time his video
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will release probably in a series of
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weeks and he will hit some of the other
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spots but I just love this movie I love
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Fletch see if I can find Kurt over here
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somewhere probably over by fat Sams I'm
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guessing I was I was not expecting you
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to be wearing
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that that's amazing you didn't even tell
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me you were you were going to be in the
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I like to give surprises that's amazing
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thank you
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sir this is the little undercarriage
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underneath the pier that gummy runs down
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when he is like being chased right
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through here so like fat Sam's burger
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place was over there and underneath here
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is where gummy was being chased through
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this section here right underneath the
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pier I don't think I've ever walked
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underneath here before I'm going to show
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a few of the screen grabs that I got
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here so there he is kind of running
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running from them
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there and if you kind of pan up you can
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kind of get the same view like hidden in
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the shadows here the underbelly of the
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Santa Monica Pier with the creaking of
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people walking above me so there's Chevy
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coming around the corner so they've kind
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of repurposed the parking lot the
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parking lot is shifted just a little bit
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I believe the beach itself and the path
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went up just a little farther into the
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parking area not too much but enough to
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definitely make a
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but that is the corner that chubby kind
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of runs around and then he ends up
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throwing the Rock at the back of the
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vehicle and breaking the the window now
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there used to be like a fencing here
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along it looks exactly the same but it
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used to be like a fencing that kind of
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went down like over on the side so
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there's like a fence up against here
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where they throw them up against the
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against the side of the
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fence that pigeon has a stick in its
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mouth right there hello
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pigeon you got a stick in your mouth now
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basically Sam's was right there there's
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also a scene over here by this staircase
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and then another one underneath the pier
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so we're going to walk underneath the
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pier as well it was right over there
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where he's talking to crease I believe
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is oh they blocked off the fence there
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you could have to go up or jump down I
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believe Chevy Irwin M Fletcher was right
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here talking to crease over here in this
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corner and you can kind of see down this
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angle of the pier behind them right
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about there is where they were both
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sitting and then Chevy gets up walks
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over to Sam's right over there but it
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was right here in this very Corner still
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the same wooden dock that leads down
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bubble gumps is there now used to be a
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different restaurant but GES came a
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little bit years later it's interesting
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they won't let you go up and walk up and
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down there they got it all sted off but
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there is the view of it right there they
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had a kind of a neat angle with the
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camera poking through a piece of chain
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link prop to get that that section there
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when they drive off actually smashes the
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back of the window they drive towards
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Venice cuz you can kind of see this
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doesn't look anything like it does now
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like you could it's completely
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open behind the chain link it's not like
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that anymore you don't really see this
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wooden section over here but I kind of
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find that hard to believe that that was
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added past 1985 like that wooden almost
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looks like a a ship the theming here
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with the
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little little Windows like
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this all right let me properly introduce
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now that he's out of character Kurt from
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80s life hey so you're going to do all
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the spots are you going to go to Salt
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Lake I will maybe all no spoilers your
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video will be it'll be a while before
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your video comes out I think it's going
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to be a while I got a lot to cover it's
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not going to just be today so I'm just
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going to do with you I'm going to just
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do the Santa greater Santa Monica area
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stuff okay more or less later on on his
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channel 80s life is it the 80s life it's
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just 80s life so
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youtube.com/ 80s life you'll have a full
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detail with Clips with you put your own
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spin on it could say that yeah so def
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defitely go subscribe to his channel be
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ready for the Fletch 1985 one of my
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favorite Chevy films me too one of your
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favorite Chevy films and let's go see
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what we can find which is your slogan
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there go there goes a dog whose dog is
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that I just used your catch fries you
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did hey shall We Shall We There You Go
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nailed it where he was on the pay phone
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was right here before he goes into the
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under cavage here to when gummies go
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here you can also see when they're
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pulling up you can see the the angle of
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the pier right over there when the the
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officers are pulling up past that stop
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sign yeah the road definitely looks a
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little bit different but the one
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distinguishing factor is definitely the
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concrete work of the bridge itself is
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kind of going up on the pier it's also
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tough to tell too because the doors have
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changed and the the pole the power pole
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was not there and they paved over a lot
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of this it's not just sand anymore but
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it was more or less in this general area
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probably kind of like right about here
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are you thinking like right about there
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too I'm thinking so I'm thinking it was
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just on the other side of this fence but
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needs to be a little bit further to the
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right yeah this is the spot right here
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they were both sitting right there in
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the sand right in that
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corner think we should walk that way and
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go under see if we can go go underneath
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the pier I've never actually been
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underneath the
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pier you got to try let's do
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it as long as it doesn't entail me
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dressing up as little B
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all right so Kurt found this spot here
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where Chevy is walking he matches up the
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buildings off in the distance they've
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added some concrete pylons they used to
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be all wood back in the80s these are
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concrete to give it a little more
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structural stability it appears as if he
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would have walked down this way and then
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ride along the shore we meeting up with
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standwick for the first time
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void
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Aviation he's no dummy it could be a
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little further up yeah this is within a
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few feet of few feet of where we're at
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because there's feet down
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here
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footsteps that was about the
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angle it'd be neat to match up the exact
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poles but that's going to be it's going
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to be really
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difficult and also the tide could have
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been been lower or higher than where it
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is now
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too I've never been underneath here
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before me neither you never been
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underneath here nope
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never I've never even walked this part
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down towards the water on be really nice
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to match up something like this little
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wooden plank that's kind of diagonal
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right there again there's been storms
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years have pass they had to put some
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more structural stability the tide has a
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lot to do with it but this is about the
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angle when they both walk
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off and then they go to sandwich's
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place even though a lot of the wood does
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look like it could have been from
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the80s there's some old old planks up
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there just about a mile and a half away
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still really close to the beach short
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commute over to front section of
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fletch's apartment but there's a lot of
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stuff that happened in the alley and on
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the Lai he doesn't like to discuss
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business on the Lai
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though yeah if you take a look that's
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where he's driving his car down palm
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trees look the same and even take a look
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at that very unique building there the
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little two story or yeah 2 and 1/2 story
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with the roof still down there when he
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pull pull up and then sees the guy's car
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he doesn't really want to talk to so he
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goes around the back alley to get away
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from him and let me just zoom in and
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show the house in the distance there so
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it looks the
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same now that's when he sees the other
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guy's car there in front and this
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actually is a residential
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spot it's an apartment complex El
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Cortez Apartments
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not sure if they film the Interiors in
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here they definitely film The exteriors
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around the front and around the back big
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old squirrel right here
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peut watch out
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squirrel you don't want any lawyers
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taking that peanut out of your mouth you
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don't want your weight your weight is
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garnishing yeah here's another photo
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later in the movie when he's like us out
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front with his car door open he goes in
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the front of the building so you get a
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better angle from a different
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perspective right about there can't get
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the exact angle cuz there's cars in the
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way but you get the
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idea he drives his car around here the
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alley pretty much looks the same there's
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been a few changes but this is how it is
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you kind of look this Direction
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telephone poles all line up car garages
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all line up they used to have dumpsters
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back then but now they use plastic trash
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cans set of
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dumpsters as shown here using this as
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the example from the movie
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itself all right we were just discussing
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so my two favorite Chevy films obviously
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vacation and Fletch what would be your
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two well vacation is my all-time
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favorite movie of anything yeah so and
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but then as far as Chevy movies Fletch
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is definitely a close number two but
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yeah for me vacation is always number
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one for anything they're both pretty
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equal I love vacation but I feel like is
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more Chevy than Clark Griswald was Chevy
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I can see that so I kind of feel like he
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it was almost like he became that
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character he also became Clark grizwald
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but I think just just by a little bit I
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think I prefer Fletch a little bit more
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as Chevy playing it but I can see that
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and I'm I'm not mad at that that yeah
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makes perfect sense but it's hard to be
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it's hard to beat
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vacation it looks like the fire escape
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is right up here still there it's like
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down here
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Wass do you like to discuss business on
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the
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Leni you got me off his apartment was on
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the second floor ooh the screen is off
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window that would have been it right up
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there so he parked his car right along
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here and he used it was either a trash
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can or the dumpster I think it was a
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trash can it was a trash can and he
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pulled it up and he was going to try to
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climb up that fire escape and then he
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looked over somewhere over in here and
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he looked in the windows where where
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were the window oh these are the windows
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they' just been yeah that's
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it they've sealed them up he looks down
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in here and he sees all the officers in
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there and then he hight Tails
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it positively no parking in the alley
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but that right there would have been his
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fire escape right up there yeah it looks
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exactly the same in fact a little water
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valve turnoff turnoff switch on that
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pipe is still there as
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right up top the screen's falling off of
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one of the windows what if anyone even
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lives
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there if someone does live there I don't
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think they realize that their screens
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are falling off the
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windows um the doors have since been
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changed and it would have been right
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here where he Parks his car and the way
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that you can tell is the front corner of
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his car is right in between these two
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windows down here you know if you look
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at that if you look at these two garage
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doors even though the garage doors have
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changed the dumpster was here this
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little wooden box can be seen this
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little uh electrical box this little
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doorway you can see that behind his head
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so the pipe that he's going to pull the
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trash can up to the ladder they've added
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onto that pipe but you can see the a
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little placard there but the pipe has
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been
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extended onto how it
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was so you got that sign that says dry
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stand pipe but they have put it down the
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side of the wall when it was just kind
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of like open-ended and Chevy was right
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there that
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face same brick and
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and of the two windows up there on the
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on the fire ledge it was this one that
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he was standing in front of with the
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bars on it the lawyer was standing in
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front of that
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one all the way over there yeah all
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right we uh just realized we made a
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mistake it's not those windows it's
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these windows that he looks down and
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sees the cars in there that are trying
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to catch him because you can
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see that right up there you can see that
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little kind of overhang from that other
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apartment so it was right here he's
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going to pick up the trash can we both
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originally thought it was those but
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thankfully we did a little more little
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investigating and found these still
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they're both covered but yeah so you can
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see that little ledge of the other
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apartment behind them
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there he's looking basically into there
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where the garage is for his apartment
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right there and then there's that ledge
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yeah if this gate was not there you get
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a little bit of a better Peak over here
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so they had a camera that would have
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been From fletch's perspective looking
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like
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that which is
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that that's cool and they did in fact
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have all of those parked down there cuz
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that there they come like ramping up out
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of there it's very steep incline too to
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come speeding out down this alley this
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is what it looks like
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20023 gosh that almost 38 year movie's
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38 years
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old would have been kind of an
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interesting stunt because if you watch
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that clip there were two cars that come
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ramping up out of there like how did
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they get enough speed up out of there
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they had to been at the back gone very
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very fast and then just like zoomed up
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turned that way and then it goes to a
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completely different area like this
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doesn't even match up with that other
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b-roll shot that they have of the
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officers following
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them
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yeah if we could climb up there we could
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definitely discuss some business on the
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Lai I'm just going to run that joke into
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ground and going to head over to the
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next spot but before doing that going to
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drive through the Fletch alley
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this is where he would have driven all
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right about a mile two miles mile or two
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where we just were is this little area
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here which is the kitchen
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area so he pulls up here after he sold
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the car drops the other guy off tells
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him they're going to be with him soon
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enough then he goes in goes into the
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kitchen the service entrance
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grabs the tray and then goes into a
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banquet for Fred the dwarf
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Dorfman right here not a lot of clues
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about this location just this one screen
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moment when the cars pass by and he
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pulls a sports car right in there and
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you can see the service entrance there
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the doors open and you can see the
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dumpster over there building's been
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repainted but this is the spot it's just
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one block away from the beach same brick
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wall over there is there there too yeah
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I got to give big credit to Kurt for
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figuring this one out how did you
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discover this was that just street view
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and everything okay so we were actually
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trying to find there's a scene where the
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cop car turns onto a street from
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Wilshire right so we were down here
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driving around up and down
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Wilshire we got to this intersection and
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we know there's a building back there
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you can't really see cuz of the tree we
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noticed that looked like it but the
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building on the corner had been changed
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so I turned onto this street just to
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pull over and like look at some
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screenshots and you were like wo I saw
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the awning the awning is the giveway I
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snapped I'm like this is it this is it
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and I pulled up those screenshots and
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everything here matched up and I awesome
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I couldn't have been happy now the
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service door is open that's the one he
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walked in grabbed the tray that's it but
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the awning is definitely the giveaway in
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that little Al Cove over there that was
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how I knew the awning yeah they're
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speeding along this there's just one
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brief moment when the one car spins out
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in the road that you can see the
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staircase there as well well there's the
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staircase right there over to the side
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oh it's a little bit further and then
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you see the meter yeah the parking meter
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across the way you can see it too for a
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brief moment right there is the parking
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meter and the tree has grown up
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considerably but that's when Fletch is
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looking back out of the service door
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over there as shown
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here this spot like kind of blows my
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mind
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honestly
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to so there's the kitchen right in there
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take a look at that that is so he walks
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in there grabs a tray like the office
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was over there is like gone there was
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like a some glass windows on the office
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that he passes by you can even see some
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of the the kitchen stuff right inside of
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there all right so we thought about
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walking in but there's cameras
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everywhere and there are signs saying do
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not go in that entrance and since we are
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not we're not employees in there we're
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going to go ask but they have a coffee
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shop in here so maybe we could just go
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get a cup of coffee and you utilize that
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to get in and see if what it looks like
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inside we're not to get in the kitchen
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but maybe we can get in the we get in
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the main room I think coffee would be a
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good excuse getting in there all right
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so we're just kind of wandering around I
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ended up getting dog town which is based
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in Santa Monica dog town of the Z boys
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the skateboarding I don't think that
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clock is right is it really noon no that
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clock's not
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working the clock's not working but one
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of these this is the Starlight Ballroom
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there's a few different ballrooms and we
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peaked into one it's been remodeled
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where the dinner scene was but it was
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one of the it was one of the few that
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were
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around was there three three different
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three different ones probably more
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probably more than three all right we
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ended up asking and they let us go into
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one of the ballrooms that was the Fred
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the dworf
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Dorfman ballroom and the giveaway was
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the chandeliers now they have repurposed
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the room but the the doors match up even
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one of the fire extinguishers matched up
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as well but they have redone the the
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partitions and the walls themselves but
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same siiz Windows we're not allowed to
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go in the kitchen we asked about that
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they said no but we were allowed to peek
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into one of the many different ballrooms
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and get a view of where the the diner
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scene happened how how freaking cool and
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we also asked and showed part of the
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film some of the employees they said we
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could not go in the kitchen but they did
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say that was in fact the kitchen inside
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this behind the ballroom that was used
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in the film they said it looked very
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very familiar so according to them here
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it was right inside here all right about
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a 10-minute commute from where we just
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were to this residential neighborhood
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now the racket ball Club from the film
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is a is actually the Riviera Country
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Club which is very very
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strict to members only however I did a
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little
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Recon few years ago on street view and
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discovered you should be able to peek
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here which is where her Bungalow
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was that was the meal was charged to the
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underhills so after looking at satellite
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view a while back I kind of studied this
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pretty closely so you'll see the tennis
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courts
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are over there and then you see
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over Chevy's shoulder this
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extreme steep hill and then he walks up
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the side of these
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stairs but I believe that they added a
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second floor onto this building here but
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he walks up those
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stairs and after looking at Satellite VI
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it's the only building that even makes
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sense from this angle that he would have
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walked up to visit her her little cabin
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so I'm looking at the movie here so he's
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walking up the stairs you see the tennis
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courts over in the distance and you see
23:06
that really extreme Hill that goes up to
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side but the I believe the building has
23:13
been repurposed since then okay
23:15
comparing the hill
23:18
there on your phone and then the hill in
23:21
the movie it's really it's the only
23:24
thing on property that makes sense and
23:26
that is the same it's really steep hill
23:30
and he does walk up those stairs yeah
23:31
it's kind of interesting how much time
23:34
like just doing the street view and
23:35
seeing that doing this a couple years
23:37
ago when I was kind of like planning on
23:39
doing the spots
23:41
eventually this took like weeks to
23:44
figure out that this little like Al Cove
23:46
to look over that fence to see that hill
23:49
and then we're here for like 2 minutes
23:51
right just to look over a fence
23:58
yeah it's fun though
23:58
it's a special thing all right this is
24:00
awesome so this is a block away from
24:02
where we just were now we're probably
24:04
not going to get the exact angle but
24:06
this shows the tennis courts right
24:28
here so where the Blue Dot is is where
24:28
we're standing now that's kind of the
24:31
angle I showed from the distance so
24:33
where he swings the Racket and hits the
24:35
car as he's walking in that's the
24:37
parking lot so just a correlation that
24:40
was her Bungalow there's now been
24:41
repurposed into a twostory over here on
24:44
Jonesboro is where we parked and we're
24:46
looking through the fence and there is
24:48
that Steep Hill right there but that is
24:51
the parking lot that he swings the
24:53
racket hits the back of the car and
24:54
we're standing over here and again it's
24:57
a very very private club and can't get
24:59
in there but just trying to kind of
25:03
showcase what it looks like from an
25:06
accessible public view all right we came
25:08
around to the main entrance and couldn't
25:11
get in so because of at the top of a
25:14
hill we're going to go up and see if we
25:17
can view the way down from the top of
25:19
the hill at the tennis
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courts match some stuff up yeah this is
25:23
about as best as we can do they're not
25:26
letting anybody in there not a
25:28
member there are the tennis
25:54
exclusive membership only I believe that
25:58
Green Building in the middle there is a
26:01
remodel version of like the little
26:03
dining area of the restaurant where he
26:05
was charging everything to the the
26:07
underhills they'll have a steak sandwich
26:09
and a steak
26:12
sandwich all right we decided to head
26:14
over to Highland Park to a couple other
26:16
spots one of which has never been shown
26:20
before look at the look at LA
26:23
traffic 5:00 p.m. arrival it is 3:21
26:27
right now hour and a half to go 27
26:31
miles ah what a what a challenge about 6
26:34
months ago or so someone alerted me to
26:37
the fact that Chevy was selling parts of
26:40
his original script from when they were
26:42
filming it comes with a certificate of
26:45
authenticity and he was selling a random
26:48
page out of that script it was the one
26:51
he had on set and I ended up getting the
26:54
page that was
26:55
used in the scene in the B Bungalow when
26:58
he shows up to the Bungalow and he
27:00
realized that he ad lied that can I
27:02
borrow your towel a car just hit a water
27:05
buffalo that's not on the script page
27:08
but I do have that that I
27:11
purchased and they went they went pretty
27:13
quick so I was glad I was able to to get
27:15
part of his his actual script he took a
27:18
page out and signed it not really sure
27:20
why he was selling them maybe he needed
27:21
the money seems like a pretty
27:22
sentimental piece of Chevy Chase history
27:26
but he ended up purchasing one one of
27:28
the pages I also got a photo with Chevy
27:32
a few months after this which was a few
27:34
months ago I was wearing my flet shirt
27:36
as shown here he was in front of the
27:40
truckster he kind of gave me the look
27:42
saw the flet shirt I go hey I'm wearing
27:43
the flet shirt and he gave me the chubby
27:46
chase eyes those wide eyes that was
27:49
enough for me that kind of made my dad
27:51
getting to me he's Chevy Chase and I'm
27:53
not moving right along it's taking a
27:55
little longer than originally planned
27:58
still got 16 mil to go 16 M an hour and
28:03
3 minutes putting me there at
28:06
58 ah love
28:08
it Los Angeles
28:11
traffic it's no joke yep just moving
28:14
right along kind of kind of moving right
28:18
along sort of that side flowing a lot
28:23
faster than the side I'm
28:26
on
28:45
this is the second time I have been to
28:45
this place first time was not able to
28:47
get in was here with Sean Clark we were
28:49
doing a Rob Zombie Halloween locations
28:52
video and it wasn't open and today it
28:55
closed at 3:30 and it's already like 5
28:59
30 one day I'll go in there actually
29:02
filmed a lot of different movies inside
29:03
there I don't even know the a laundry
29:06
list of films they use the cells for in
29:08
there but flesh is one of
29:10
them you know now that I'm looking at
29:12
these windows here there are two so
29:14
there's two windows you notice the this
29:18
type of window there has the like six
29:21
individual slats of glass and there's a
29:26
palm tree right there very noticeable
29:28
palm tree with dried leaves take a look
29:30
at this window with six slats of GL of
29:33
glass and a palm tree out the
29:36
window with DED leaves and take a look
29:39
at this you can see when they're
29:40
bringing them up you they're bringing
29:41
them up the ti of the stairs there Chevy
29:44
and you notice the brick there they're
29:46
going up the stairs of the second floor
29:48
this is inside but it's kind of facing
29:50
out this is exactly the same on both
29:52
sides but it could have been through
29:54
this side or the other side but there is
29:56
definitely that brick as they walk in
29:59
and take him up those stairs and then up
30:02
to the counter
30:03
to take him to see the
30:22
were I don't know when I'm going to make
30:22
it back here to be able to go in here so
30:24
you have to tune in Kurt's video when he
30:27
finally he's going to have to come back
30:28
cuz his video is not going to be out for
30:30
quite some time he's putting together
30:32
everything over the next series of weeks
30:34
and maybe even longer than
30:37
that but right on the other side of that
30:39
is where Chevy gets puts in the puts in
30:42
cell again using a lot of lot of movies
30:45
but it was around around the back
30:48
here it's amazing I've been here twice
30:50
and still haven't been there's the scene
30:53
so the chief's office and the cells are
30:55
in the same the same
30:59
area hey Tommy Lort yeah I hey Tommy
31:03
Lort and he smashes Tommy lurus photo
31:07
hey we're over here on the corner of
31:08
Avenue 51 in York where part of the
31:13
chase the car chasing took place lot of
31:16
it also took place over in Long Beach
31:18
most of it did but if you look across
31:20
the street there's a place called Dawn's
31:22
Auto Repair that you can see in the
31:24
chase scene and it just so happen
31:27
happens that one of the kind of most
31:29
elusive spots that you know as a
31:32
recording of This has not ever been
31:33
posted online is the
31:36
house as the bus goes by but the house
31:40
where he goes
31:42
upstairs and he's you know says that
31:44
there's no tags on these mattresses is
31:47
right up
31:48
here yeah so we'll walk over there in a
31:50
second and just so happens when they
31:51
speed past this corner it still is a
31:54
pizza place a different pizza place but
31:57
it still is a pizza place and look at
31:58
the little manhole down below there too
32:02
as well that's still there so you got
32:04
the like a little sewer hole there and
32:07
then you got the pizza place right over
32:09
there painted red now but it has been a
32:12
pizza place or is a pizza place now it
32:14
was an 85 and it is now yeah there was a
32:16
fullon extreme stunt right here with the
32:18
two drivers plowing into each other two
32:21
two drivers
32:23
crashed right there but it still is a
32:26
Dawn's Auto even though the Union Union
32:28
76 sign has changed it looks like Don's
32:31
has taken that and put their sign in
32:33
front of that as well right on the
32:34
corner of York that was an easy one cuz
32:37
it does say York on the side but a block
32:39
away is the she's not here so you're
32:43
saying she's not here that house is
32:44
right up the road classic truck alert
32:47
going
32:48
by I'm always fascinated by stunts when
32:51
you watch them you don't put too much
32:52
thought into it but they come around the
32:54
corner they just barely miss the one
32:56
automobile and the other one just cre
32:59
into the car right there now about a
33:01
year ago maybe even longer than that I
33:03
was kind of like trying to figure out
33:05
where the scene was where he pulls up
33:06
and he kind of is snooping around in the
33:08
house and they say it's in Salt Lake
33:10
City but when I looked at this angle I
33:12
was like that looks more like La so I
33:13
went on street view a lot a lot of time
33:17
on street view and I just kept going
33:18
around different areas of LA and I
33:20
finally found this corner and I found
33:23
the house and it's one block away from
33:26
where I just was and the house is still
33:28
here looks the same all right the guy
33:29
that lives here said his uncle knows
33:32
that the movie was filmed here
33:34
he knows that they did film it this is
33:37
the house right here on the corner and
33:39
they did in fact
33:41
film inside the kitchen and upstairs in
33:45
the room when he comes up and he's like
33:47
she's not here so you're saying she's
33:49
not here well I commend him on his
33:52
choice this is the house not in Salt
33:54
Lake City he goes go goes into the
33:57
mailbox it's up on the porch looks at
33:59
the mail and realizes that she's not
34:02
there and he didn't realize that it had
34:04
a caretaker watching over that he was
34:06
not budging the caretaker was not
34:07
budging yeah if you look at the front so
34:08
they've added a window in the front
34:11
there so another door so there's a there
34:13
wasn't a door there but they've added
34:14
the door and the address is different it
34:16
was 410 in the movie huh yeah it's 410
34:19
and it's 557 in real life yeah pretty
34:23
cool hey you got to watch the movie man
34:25
yeah yeah I'm I'm going to see
34:27
at least at least the scene where he
34:29
goes upstairs and in the kitchen it's
34:30
amazing to see this tree and how much it
34:33
has grown over almost four decades right
34:37
here yeah I was showing him some of the
34:39
clips said his uncle has seen the movie
34:40
and knew that they filmed something here
34:42
but the guy I'm talking to also lives
34:44
here has never seen it but I was showing
34:46
him clips of the kitchen and I asked him
34:48
about the part when Chevy gets his head
34:50
stuck in the light and he goes oh those
34:52
lights aren't in there
34:54
anymore but it was on the top floor when
34:57
the guy comes up and he's like she's not
34:58
here she's not here so you're saying
35:02
she's not
35:03
here this tree is amazing though I mean
35:06
it's just still there same tree and here
35:08
is what it looked like to the tree over
35:10
to the side and it was the upstairs room
35:13
he went up and he was he said he was the
35:15
masteress inspector all right that's
35:17
pretty wild that is the I think that is
35:19
the same exact mailbox right there yeah
35:23
that's pretty wild so I said we could
35:24
come up and just take a look at the
35:25
mailbox right there
35:27
look at that that is the same freaking
35:31
mailbox there it is right there the mail
35:35
screen used mailbox still on the side of
35:38
the house almost four decades later and
35:41
obviously we're not going to go in their
35:42
house it wasn't cool but they let us go
35:45
up on the porch for definitely a big
35:47
thanks to the people who own this house
35:49
people who live here very very cool very
35:53
next level very cool sitting on the
35:55
porch on the stairs watching Clips
35:57
showing them Clips they let us on the
35:59
porch and just very friendly folks so
36:02
big thanks to homeowners
36:05
who are are cool and this is it so this
36:10
was a tough one to find this was
36:11
definitely a tough one to find I found
36:13
it about a year and a half ago by going
36:15
down street I should talk to Kurt and
36:17
how he figured it out as well cuz I
36:19
mentioned he goes oh that house is in
36:20
Salt Lake and we were talking about this
36:22
3 4 5 6 months ago and I go oh no no
36:25
it's in the greater LA area
36:27
and then when he was looking up the car
36:29
chase he figured out where this was too
36:32
and he goes holy cow it's not in Salt
36:34
Lake it's in Greater Los Angeles area
36:37
you want to know for your video oh you
36:39
got some more information well it's I
36:41
mean you might have already noticed it
36:42
might not be anything oh give me a
36:44
secret give me a secret and I wanted to
36:46
ask you how you found this house too cuz
36:48
I think as of now this no as of right
36:52
now at this moment this has this is
36:53
nowhere online posted that is probably
36:56
going to change now that we put this out
36:58
there but it is exciting to find
36:59
something that is not so you found it
37:03
first and we both found it on our own
37:07
but it was you who who tipped me off to
37:10
the fact that it's not in Utah otherwise
37:12
I I might have just thought that it was
37:14
in Utah scouring the Utah I found it
37:16
because right here on the corner is part
37:19
of the chase scene when when they're
37:21
driving in the stolen car and I found
37:23
that first then when I was looking for
37:25
this house I recognized the area and
37:29
kind of went back and started going up
37:30
and down the street and we found it but
37:33
I was going to point out to you when he
37:35
pulls
37:37
up he pulls up I was going to point out
37:39
to you when he pulls up he Parks right
37:41
in front of the house and he's looking
37:42
out his window like he's parked directly
37:45
in front but behind him you don't see
37:47
the parking lot it's actually this house
37:51
right over here oh no way so they do a
37:53
little bit of he's
37:55
supposedly yeah he's supposedly right
37:57
there okay you know what cuz I was just
37:59
telling the homeowner that they tore
38:00
down the houses across the street no
38:03
really so it's these houses yeah those
38:07
might be the houses too that they show
38:09
when he looks out the window all right
38:12
another mystery
38:13
solved that is so wild there must not
38:15
have been anything across the street
38:17
from the house so they're like that
38:18
doesn't look right an empty parking lot
38:20
right let's just put it right here next
38:24
to that one as as this car goes by you
38:27
can see that that is the
38:29
house so Irwin and Fletcher pulls up
38:32
right
38:33
here but in fact the house is down there
38:38
movie Magic movie Magic like Kurt was
38:40
also pointing out that part of the chase
38:42
scene was right over here too on this
38:45
corner so in fact they film the chase
38:48
down this road Avenue 51 they go down
38:52
this way they pass the pizza place and
38:54
then they turn in front front of the I
38:58
can't remember the name of the place we
38:59
were just there Don's Auto Repair Don's
39:01
Auto Repair they turned this way and all
39:04
in the same area as the
39:07
house later so they must have just had
39:10
permission to film on these two blocks
39:12
and there's also a couple of other like
39:14
really short scenes this is Meridian
39:16
there's some other like where they're
39:18
driving with and the police cars are
39:20
behind them just really quick like them
39:22
passing the houses those are on Meridian
39:24
as well all this is like I want say this
39:26
was like the Holy Grail of flesh but
39:28
this was like a when I figur when I
39:30
realized this was here I got really
39:32
excited about something that's only in
39:33
the movie for like 2 minutes but it's a
39:37
great SE 3 minutes you ever have that
39:39
when you do videos you find something
39:41
that you think no one's going to care
39:42
about but you care about it oh and you
39:44
discover it like a you do some some
39:46
Recon you figure it out almost every
39:48
video I do there's something like that
39:50
and it's usually something that's not
39:52
even as cool as a house it's like a
39:54
mailbox or something you know speaking
39:56
of mailboxes yeah that's probably why I
39:59
said that I'm going to end the video
40:00
here cuz I we've kind of done enough for
40:03
the day check out Kurt's video when he
40:05
finally gets it uploaded 80s Life on
40:08
YouTube a lot of really good detailed
40:10
stuff mostly the 80s I would say 95% of
40:13
the stuff you do is the ' 80s yeah and
40:14
then a little bit of the '90s as well so
40:16
you're going to have you're going to be
40:17
the the 80s life and a little bit of
40:19
'90s Life yeah mix St yeah but check out
40:22
his channel your video will be up at
40:24
some point my video will be up the next
40:26
day that's kind of his will be a lot
40:28
more detailed more locations check him
40:30
out and I'll see you in the next video
40:32
we found some Fletch stuff that has
40:33
never been shown the Vlog yeah is over
40:38
there such a good