Last Look Inside Warner Bros Ranch Before Demolition Begins- Historic Hollywood Backlot Walking Tour
Last Look At Warner Bros Ranch
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here as a
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recording of This is Friday June 9 2023
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standing here in my hotel parking
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structure about to head over I'm
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Universal Studios Hollywood right here
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at this hotel on the outskirts of it I'm
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heading over to another studio today
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Warner Brothers but not the regular
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Warner Brothers lot the Warner Brothers
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Ranch a year ago was able to get access
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walk around show some of the buildings I
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had heard strong rumor that by the end
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of last year it was going to be closed
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and they were going to tear everything
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down but that got pushed forward a year
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but now the heavy rumor is at the end of
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this year
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mid-summer to the end of the year
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they've already started to tear down one
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or two facades I believe all of Blondie
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Street will be gone and that will be a
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race from existence if you will and
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they're going to be sound stages put in
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its place so this will be my last
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opportunity to showcase Warner Brothers
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Ranch the former Columbia Ranch dating
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back to the 1930s history Hollywood
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history that's going away forever and
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I'm very excited to be allowed in there
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I'm gonna get going I'm inviting you to
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join me
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shall you as I drive along the side here
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you're going to see some of the backs of
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the facades
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so many TV shows and movies have been
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filmed in here on the other side of
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these leaves on the side of this fence
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over here
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Waltons I Dream of Genie Bewitched
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Partridge Family National Lampoon's
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Christmas Vacation in fact the
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Griswold's house is right pretty much
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right there
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at least a weapon American Beauty
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wand division most recently
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the Agatha scenes on the road with Wanda
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I'm gonna be getting in there
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and I'm just going to try to do a really
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kind of slow
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detailed look at all the facades not
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anything too particularly lining up a
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lot of you know different string grabs
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and stuff because there's just so much
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to cover I just mean as far as I can
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actually this is wide open but I'll go
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park on the other side in front of the
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other entrance this is gate 12. I just
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kind of want to showcase a last look
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most likely a last look for me and the
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last look for a lot of folks
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of the Warner Ranch facilities before
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they are torn out and sound stages
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according to rumors I've heard and those
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who have told me certain details and of
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course what's on the internet but you
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can never really trust the internet but
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supposedly they're going to be 16 new
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sound stages
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where they from the facade houses are
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now they're going to be bulldozed all
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right went through the little checkpoint
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got my guest pass and I am good to go I
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just got to go through this other
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checkpoint over here and then I'm on the
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lot all right change of plans they told
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me to go park over at lot 6.
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so I'm now heading over to lot 6 this
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way oh these buildings look familiar all
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right again
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really grateful to be in here I'm just
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going to try to show
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everything before it's gone
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so a lot of these facades were just
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using countless TV Productions movies
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television commercials music videos
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last time I was here I didn't see this
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area around here
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this looks like it could be used for
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like a general store or something like
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that
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maybe a jewelry store
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is lot six around here that I have
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parked in
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so the friends Fountain has been removed
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friends Fountain used to be right there
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but they obviously knew that they were
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going to be tearing all this out so they
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moved the friends Fountain over to
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Warner Brothers proper
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oh look like they've already Torn Down
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The Partridge Family House over there
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too
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so Blondie Street got its name based on
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a comic strip
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from back in the
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early 1900s
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I just imagine this is going to all be
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according to the rumors and speculations
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obviously
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there are a few things I want to show
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so I did a video if you want to go back
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and kind of dig deep on a year ago
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I talked about a lot of the gremlin
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spots and the Gremlins pool and all that
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so I'm not going to reiterate myself too
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much but I do want to show the wand
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division spots
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also the
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I Dream of Genie spots
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well Bewitched I should say I did film
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something by dream of Genie but
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Bewitched the Bewitched house
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things like that
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while I'm out here
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I'm just fascinated by backlots in
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general
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I could spend every day on Hollywood
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back lots and not get bored
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back over in this area are some of the
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plants and the foliage and trees and
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whatnot that are
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being gotten rid of
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because they're not going to be used
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anymore this is the area back behind
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here it's an old golf cart back there
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what actually says WBTV
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Warner Brothers television
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but basically they're just giving away
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all the plants
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to other people
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this used to be completely full
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of different items but
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people are coming in and out
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to pick them up in fact when I came
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through I said oh I'm allowed to be here
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gave my name and they gave me the pass
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to come on they're already here for any
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plants I said no I don't need any plants
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but
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I guess if I was a local I needed a
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plant
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this is around the back of the house as
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you can see how they're the fake facades
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are on the back here this big metal
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building
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here's one truck getting loaded up now
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but I wanted to show the back of this
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so this build this hill here this is the
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backside of the Charlton Heston Omega
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Man
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structure
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so this is around the back of it which I
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have never seen before it's pretty
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amazing it's a part of The Partridge
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Family house is still over there kinda
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sort of they're using it for a young
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Sheldon
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or young Sheldon
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they got the stanchions up around here
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one thing I learned recently about this
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pool
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is that there's little filming holes on
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the side of it so you can
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the crew could get underneath the water
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and kind of film into this this has been
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using probably 100 different things
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so the way the camera guy gets under the
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ground is they open this up
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and then get down inside there and then
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you place the camera and you'll see over
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there by the diving board is one of the
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little slots there's another slot there
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but the other slot is located right
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underneath my foot so camera guy would
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get right down inside of there
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there's some other people over there
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doing a little walking tour so there's
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the little
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underground bunker if you will camera
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guy there and there's the little slot to
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film under the water
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it used to be a tree here it was used in
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the middle
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this house was built for Small Soldiers
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but was used in a lot of different stuff
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too but you can see the root system of a
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tree there
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just to give a correlation that kind of
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right over there is where the friends
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Fountain used to be you can also see
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that in Hocus Pocus when it's one scene
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from Hocus Pocus where they walk past
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the friends fountain
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but the middle tree is gone
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blown down and I am allowed to walk
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around inside
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the facades I'm just going to do some
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kind of slow pans of some of these
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some of these spots from the kitchens
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here a lot of these are practical
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practical
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places where you have the exterior but
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also the interior can be used so a lot a
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lot of shows will have an exterior but
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then they'll also have interiors and a
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sounds touch
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a lot of stuff here on the ranch
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this actually has a second floor
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practical second floor looks like okay
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I'm incorrect it just looks like it
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leaves kind of to nothing
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so they would dress the wall here coming
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down to make it look like people are
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going upstairs
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in fact they're not
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and across the way here
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is the one division house
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the Christmas Vacation House
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the scene from offspring's Pretty Fly
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for a White Guy the guy's like walking
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down that sidewalk over there Lethal
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Weapon house
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off in the distance the American Beauty
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house right over there
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and a lot of One Division you can see
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you could actually see this porch and
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the house I'm looking out across when
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they're filming out from the Wanda
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Vision house all right stepping out on
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the small soldier's porch here again
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that's why
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this building was built
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anyway we're gonna go over into those
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over there as well
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just amazing to think that
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those are going to be bulldoze you can
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also see also I was given this guide map
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here and the guide map's a little old
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because it still has the French fountain
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on there but you can kind of get your
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bearings a bird's eye perspective on
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where everything is so the Allen house
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is also used in Pushing Daisies you can
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see a lot of these facades look very
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similar but they look a little bit
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different so you know the the in small
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soldiers that had that kind of pile on
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that kind of munchery looking pylon over
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on the side
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and this is what it looks like
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modernized this is really going to kind
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of help me out a lot to show some of the
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Productions that were that were out here
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and then there's the pool we'll show
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some of the other ones
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is using the monkeys Hook Line Sinker I
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Dream of Genie Partridge Family and of
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course probably about 50 other things
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all right this is called the Chester
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house
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and then the Griswold house then the
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Lindsay house
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that's a lethal weapon house and the
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Bewitched house down there and a lot of
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this I'm kind of going off memory of
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Productions that I've seen and kind of
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etched in my head from years of watching
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them but it really does help to have
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this guide map so the Chester house a
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lot of different movies Pleasantville
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was there American Beauty day my parents
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ran away
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and countless others
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and keep in mind all this is going to be
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torn out every one of these houses all
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these streets
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this fire hydrant will be gone cousin
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Eddie's fire hydrant
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that right up there is where Chevy Chase
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stuck his head out
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of that little
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there's a squirrel up there on that
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Branch too
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then here's the neighbor's house
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that is incredible
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classic Chevy in his prime right there
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let's head out that little portal
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and here's the garage
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try to untangle those Christmas
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decorations and this was kind of an
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impromptu unplanned
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visit today kind of like my last visit
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it just kind of
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kind of just happened but I did do some
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quick research on the Lethal Weapon
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house it's called the Lindsay house
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named after a movie called I am law in
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1936 with a character was named John
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Lindsay it's also using the Three
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Stooges Hazel in 1961 Dennis the Menace
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and the monkeys also use this house I'm
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gonna go inside this house right now all
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right stepping inside
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there's the doorbell right here
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also another practical interior and
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exterior
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staircase the living room still the same
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you see young Sheldon who's a little
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glass and probably will be one of the
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last Productions that
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took and is taking place out here
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forever immortalizing the Warner Ranch
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one last time
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throwing Lethal Weapon 2 when the toilet
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flies out the window the explosion
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there's still charred remnants of that
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up here on the second floor
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of the house
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so at first I thought maybe that was it
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because she looks like the kind of
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discoloration but in fact it's not you
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look at the roof up here you can see the
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burn marks you can see the charred
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remnants
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of where this window was blown out look
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at the fire
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probably was this window here
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that was blown out yeah it definitely
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had to have been because that's uh the
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most charged section of it right there
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a little uh movie history there a little
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late 80s movie history
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wow the camera was set up out there with
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uh you know Fire coming out the window
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that direction you can even see some of
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the charred goes up the side of the roof
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itself so obviously they fixed the roof
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and re-put some of their new stuff up
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I mean yeah that is just incredible
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going next door now into the Griswolds
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and I'm gonna think I'm gonna peek my
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head through the same spot that Chevy
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did
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I might as well because this stuff's
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just not going to be here
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for very long yeah they did not film
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well they filmed half the Interiors kind
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of looking out the front door when
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they're facing in from outside but they
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also recreated the staircase on the
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Sound Stage so it was a little bit of
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Interiors but just imagine
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Chevy
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coming in here getting on a ladder
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climbing the ladder well probably with
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something a little more stable than that
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and getting right up there and sticking
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his head out of the imaginary attic to
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get the exterior angles
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of him poking his head out there
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that is something else
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and obviously it doesn't snow in
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Southern California like this so that's
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all fake snow or they later down here
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and also the tree has grown up in front
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considerably in fact it's not even the
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same tree they Place Another tree a
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little set production there at the end
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of the driveway but you can look out
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this window and you can see the street
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over there as it kind of turns so the
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car would have been pulling out of the
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driveway
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right there and then also where he's
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peeking out the top of the window if you
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look out here I'm gonna go out there and
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get to the outside angle but they also
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built a fake chimney right here
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on this roof or he's like it almost
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looks like it's even like the same slats
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and everything I just love how the
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Christmas lights are all just not
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organized at all they're just like kind
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of strewn all over there
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so notice how different Productions have
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used
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the uh the wallpaper so you got one
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wallpaper underneath the newer wallpaper
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just different levels
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of or layers of wallpaper
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it just blows my mind this is all going
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away
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so much movie history but you know what
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progress I guess all right I do recall a
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scene in one division where the house
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was gone and they have her standing here
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looking across the way here and you see
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the the foundation of her that quote
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unquote Foundation of her house
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but he notice if you watch that scene
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when I was not supposed to watch the
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show great show Disney Plus
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that she's a little bit closer than what
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the house would have been
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so the angle was kind of like that and
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they built the foundation but if the
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camera would have turned around you
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would have just seen Wanda's house just
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like that also the Griswold house it's a
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pretty dramatic scene in one division
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here
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where Scarlet Witch Wanda's or no
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spoilers but yeah over there
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having a little fight scene here and you
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can actually see this manhole right in
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the side here where Agatha gets kind of
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pushed back
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from that angle right there
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so last time I was out here I had not
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completed all of One Division a year ago
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but now I've watched I really love the
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show
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and I was like oh man I missed all the
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wand division stuff so I'm glad I'm able
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to see it now there it is there she goes
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flying back
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I can't imagine that'd be so cool I've
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been here watching them
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watching them film that even though
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these facades change a lot
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it does in fact from that episode with a
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fight scene right there they put Plants
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around that fire hydrant the Cousin
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Eddie fire hydrant but that's the exact
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angle there we can see she's got the
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she's got her got her kids tied up
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same windows and everything on the One
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Division house that is so dang cool look
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at that
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yeah same green on the house and
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everything
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so Wanda's here Scarlet Witch Is Here
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this is the angle right there in fact
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you can see that church down there I
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think the church originally was built I
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think in the 70s it burned down and they
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rebuilt it but the church has been to
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use a quite a bit of stuff
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and this is the Bewitched house here or
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was the Bewitched house oh
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so I'm actually recognizing something
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from One Division as well where they go
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down in the basement
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the basement was right over here
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and it looks like that was a fake facade
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as well I think that was the angle where
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the basement scene
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was right there
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and of course the basement was
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on a stage somewhere but
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now this is the exact angle where Agatha
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brings the dog out of course later we
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learned that it was Agatha all along
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that's the angle
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little shrubs and everything have
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changed dramatically but the windows
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all still look the same and this tree
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looks the same as well where the
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family's walking in
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yep it was Agatha all along
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spoiler over there something you
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wouldn't see when you're watching One
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Division or just any production in
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general is stuff that's on the other
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side of the lot
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and the reason they make the roads in
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this kind of odd shape not going
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straight is that way when you're filming
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it it makes the road look longer than it
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really is so you're never really going
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to see it completely
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straight road like that it's all just
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kind of a big horseshoe
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all the Blondie Street's like a big
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horseshoe there
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so this here also
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was the Bewitched house
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also our man Higgins and Gidget Gina
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Davis show also wow I didn't know Gina
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Davis
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filmed back here as well and of course a
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lot of other stuff but
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kind of looks the same in a lot of ways
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how it did then all right gonna step
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inside the Bewitched house now there's
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the heck house over there next to the
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former Partridge Family House
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so I don't know if this was a practical
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set maybe not so some places are
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practical sets that you could film
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inside but not a lot of room in here see
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some of the shutters and doors this
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leads out to the outside
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so this is one of the real non-practical
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sets now granted they may have put
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something in here behind the window when
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you're looking in to make it look like
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there's an interior
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but the interior is just like the
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size of a really really tiny efficiency
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apartment
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hitting the church now the spire's gone
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is taken out
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Parts family life is on Erie Indiana
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pretty sure that was The Waltons church
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as well
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it's kind of tucked away here around the
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back kind of away from everything else
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you just see this like you get back here
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you can't it doesn't even look like a
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residential neighborhood anymore
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this is what it looks like inside they
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had a cross here oh there's another
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cross here there's a lot of crosses in
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a little set dressing for
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a different stuff
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now I've Never filmed inside of it never
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taken a photo or anything inside it but
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this is what the inside of the psycho
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house looks like at Universal
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it looks almost exactly like this kind
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of gut it out
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you got this stained glass windows over
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there
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amazing so it's interesting movie Magic
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so this is the back of the heck house
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but also the back of a store
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so it's like the back of a store is also
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the back of the real home
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Again movie Magic
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so it says truck loadings though but I
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highly doubt any trucks have really
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loaded here probably just set dressing
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to make it look like you're loading
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something in here
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so you can kind of use this as well the
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thing is fascinating about the church
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you could use the front angle but then
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you can also use the side angle so you
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can really film right here and not even
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know that it's the same building as the
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other side entrance would be
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all this stuff is just so fascinating to
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me
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all the facades
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and most of this is like fake bricks so
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this probably is not even a real brick
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this is probably made out of yeah that's
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Pike
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not even a real Brook you can even see
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the the nails and the Staples
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and the side of it right there
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you can see civilization of real Burbank
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kind of peeking up over the South so you
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can see a lot of these trees are
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removable can be switched around so I'm
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hearing that even all these trees are
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going to be you know you've moved to
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other locations or they're going to be
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torn out but the trees are also going to
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go for the sound stages
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that are incoming soon
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right over here was the back side of the
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Partridge Family House
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that was uh looks like it was kind of
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modified for a new production so now
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it's just kind of sitting here about a
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third of Where The Partridge Family
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House was
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I'm not sure where that leads but
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it was like there's a set a uh
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production set bus over there
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it says Dexter on the side
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there's an old cone here it says Ranch
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operations
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that thing
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I Recons another tree here that's been
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kind of chopped down
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so here was The Partridge Family House
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it's the first
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of some of the ones that have already
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started to be destroyed even though I
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think that probably was for a production
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or maybe not maybe they just start
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tearing it out
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now obviously Christmas vacation was
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filmed out here but also there's one
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scene from regular Vacation National
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Lampoon's Vacation where Clark falls
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asleep
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and
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this angle here is where the truckster
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drives past and it's kind of been redone
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a little bit there was a garage over
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there with that tree could be seen the
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truckster goes by and there was a guy
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here with a stunt dog who pulled the dog
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up into the
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to the grasp of the stunt man that was
24:27
right here as the truck sure goes by
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just one scene
24:30
from vacation the first vacation all
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right the last few things I want to show
24:34
here so I kind of already showed this
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which is this building
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which I believe is like one of probably
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one of the oldest buildings on the lot
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and then you got the one next to it
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and then
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one next to it actually is the Interiors
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are used for offices those would be
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these house here where they did Donna
24:53
reach show Eight is Enough Dennis the
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Menace not sure what Rusty movies is but
24:58
once again party wire then the one next
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to it also I dream of Jenny Bewitched
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monkeys I mean just a lot of just a lot
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of history out here
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oh The Flying Nun was at that building
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and then the Omega Man as I mentioned
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earlier
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which was right there
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these are the other Productions that
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were it was just one of many Productions
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so just these are just kind of examples
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evidently there are no more free Plants
25:30
available the plants are accounted for
25:34
or they're just for sale no more free
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plants
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over here at lot 7 so this is kind of
25:45
interesting so Universal still has their
25:47
Falls Lake area and Paramount still has
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where
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Trump has to have a ten commandments
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scene where they would put water in so
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Warner Brothers Ranch used to have that
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as well back in the Gidget days her
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Beach was right here you can see the
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incline here and they had the water in
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this particular area lot 7 merging into
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lot six so the beach area was right over
26:08
here and all this could be filled in
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with water
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and the way you can really tell you know
26:13
as some of those other Studios that
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still have that function is how the
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water would come in this way so it was
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inclined down so the water could be put
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in here and not run up because the
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elevation not sure if it shows up on
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camera kind of Slants down like that
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very fascinating
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yeah Gidget's Beach is right over there
26:34
and just like at Universal Inn Paramount
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there was a big blue screen right there
26:41
just like at the other one another
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classic Warner Brothers is Gremlins and
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there's a Gremlins
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right up in here now keep in mind even
26:48
these buildings
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are gonna go uh there's a girl ones
26:52
hanging from the ceiling fan there
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this is a tailor shop
26:59
it's called the Smith house and one of
27:02
the last I see the sign there it says
27:03
Presumed Innocent one of the last
27:05
Productions
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to take place over here this is right I
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would imagine this is probably this
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front facade was used in a lot of things
27:11
maybe the Interiors over the time
27:13
but it's right next to Stage 71 all
27:15
right stage 31 stage 32 here I tucked
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away over here in the corner is Michigan
27:20
J's named after Michigan J frog hello my
27:23
honey hello my darling hello my long
27:25
I tried to think how the song goes
27:26
anyway you know the song but this was
27:28
the commissary very kind of short-lived
27:30
and it was used for different sets so
27:32
this is where cast crew extras people
27:35
like that would come get their meal on
27:38
and then this over here too is kind of
27:40
interesting Dude Looks Like that's being
27:42
used as like a prop Warehouse costume
27:45
area as well but you could just see this
27:47
was definitely used in a production at
27:49
some point
27:55
I got the old windows in here the order
27:55
window here
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the pickup window over here
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just think how many famous faces came in
28:03
here to get a meal
28:08
you get a snack
28:08
for this whole thing again just to
28:10
reiterate all these buildings are going
28:12
to be torn out including
28:14
these sound stages so I said the
28:17
the South stages are coming in they're
28:19
not going to be utilizing these older
28:21
sound stages so out with the old
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hidden with the new and these Hedges
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right here
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I had room for a hedge in my car
28:36
I don't think I don't think a big plant
28:36
like this would make it back on my plane
28:37
back to Florida do not enter when the
28:39
red lights are on it's a closed set
28:41
nothing
28:42
is going to be filmed in there however
28:44
so the red light will not be on but take
28:46
a look at this kind of tucked away over
28:47
here next to all this foliage is going
28:50
away stage 30 was constructed in 65.
28:54
Interview with a Vampire at 94 was in
28:56
there U.S Marshals Wild Wild West with
28:59
Will Smith
29:00
I heard that movie slaps American Beauty
29:04
Captain Nemo Williams Brothers
29:07
just the 10 of us body of evidence all
29:09
inside
29:11
stage 30 over at stage 33 some movies
29:14
that I'm very familiar with so you got
29:17
Demolition Man was over here Maverick
29:19
Batman Forever
29:20
they threw up in four they've got the
29:22
three Last Boy Scout right there
29:24
Arachnophobia John Goodman Christmas
29:26
vacations Interiors recite inside of
29:28
there Bodies of Evidence
29:31
Knots Landing back to the cul-de-sac
29:34
right inside that door
29:37
I'm not going to be filming inside the
29:39
sound stages but
29:41
pretty awesome to see
29:53
next to Stage 34 is the iconic WB neon
29:53
sign from the commercials back in the
29:54
day look at that thing the w
29:58
B
30:00
what the heck there's also some horses
30:02
up there some fake horses
30:04
oh my goodness look at this thing all
30:07
right over here it's Stage 34 Free Willy
30:10
the adventure home Batman and Robin
30:13
Father's Day a Walton wedding The
30:16
Waltons were in there Walton Easter
30:20
a lot of Walton's history out here Stage
30:22
34 this this 34 was constructed in 1976.
30:26
soon to be
30:28
soon to be torn down but this kind of
30:30
blows my mind I could just see
30:33
frog dancing around right here promoting
30:35
a WB it was like an iconic sign
30:39
I wonder what that horse and cow was
30:41
used though this is kind of interesting
30:42
there's a neighborhood right behind the
30:44
wall behind this this is where they used
30:45
to do the fiberglass work right in here
30:48
again all this is going to be be gone
30:50
check out Bugs Bunny over here
30:52
construction Personnel behind this so
30:55
you can't go in there unless you're part
30:56
of part of the construction but this is
30:58
like where all the magic happened I say
31:01
happens but I guess it's still happening
31:02
for a little bit but be past tense
31:05
pretty soon usually the paint department
31:07
here too now I definitely love The
31:09
Waltons and I always watch it with my
31:11
mom and Mom loves the Walton still to
31:13
this day so The Walton's house used to
31:15
be over at the regular Warner Brothers
31:17
ranch when they built like some some new
31:19
parking garages and stuff they moved it
31:20
over here and it was over in this area
31:22
The Walton's house in fact Walton's
31:24
Mountain is so regular Warner Brothers
31:27
over there you can see Walden's Mountain
31:28
AKA Griffith Park so when you're looking
31:31
at when you're watching The Waltons not
31:33
really in Virginia it's in LA and
31:35
Walton's a mountain is Griffith Park but
31:37
the original location was over at the
31:38
regular Studios and they moved it over
31:40
here to the ranch so this is kind of the
31:41
general area all right again so the
31:43
waltz houses moved
31:45
from the first spot to over here
31:48
and so the Walt's house is basically in
31:50
this little area here
31:52
and this facade was used in a show
31:55
called Animal Kingdom
31:56
right here but this is generally where
31:58
The Walton's house would have been when
32:00
it was on the ranch part so it was two
32:02
different spots but
32:03
pretty dang exciting
32:11
yeah up there on the top of the animal
32:11
kingdom house
32:18
it's a bird or the bird's nest
32:18
hello bird
32:20
how's it going
32:23
got your nest up there yep
32:29
so in the backyard is the
32:29
basketball court over there and then the
32:31
pool over that way
32:44
is one of the red lights to let you know
32:44
the filming is taking place it's kind of
32:46
old Relic here
32:49
the weather weather worn Relic again
32:51
practical set interior and exterior for
32:55
the show Animal Kingdom
33:09
so former Warner animation if you look
33:09
up in the distance you can see the back
33:11
side of the Hollywood side you see uh
33:12
looks like that's the tower for the
33:14
Hollywood side up there if my bearings
33:15
are correct
33:22
yeah yeah it is because I see the wisdom
33:22
tree up there
33:23
kind of walking back over to this
33:25
section take a look at this here's some
33:28
parking areas for when they were filming
33:30
the middle out here
33:49
this building here always reminds me of
33:49
the Amityville Horror home kind of with
33:51
the windows there this is used from by
33:53
the two sisters on The Waltons
33:56
not really sure what else but over here
33:57
this gas station
33:59
convenience store gas station
34:00
restaurant's been used
34:12
it's like the last thing it was set
34:12
dressed for was a new and used tire
34:15
place
34:16
but has stood in for gas stations
34:19
is that Gremlins Monster Squad
34:22
used for restaurants
34:29
driving diners things like that
34:29
it's very close to the main road in fact
34:33
you could really see it if you wanted to
34:34
if you were just over here on the corner
34:36
of Hollywood way if you were standing
34:38
over on that street corner you could
34:39
look in technically and see this from
34:41
the road
34:43
got the hubcap sign on here
35:06
all right this is kind of fascinating so
35:06
over there was the Warner Brothers
35:07
animation area then all the voice over
35:09
stuff was done here in this building
35:11
again this building is going away so you
35:14
figure Animaniacs Batman all that
35:18
I decided this building right over here
35:22
incredible
36:11
I know I probably am over filming but
36:11
this is definitely worth over filming
37:01
it's always just incredible to me to be
37:01
you know in a place where things were
37:03
filmed
37:04
I've always been fascinated by it
37:08
I know I'm not the only one but
37:10
not everyone is into this kind of thing
37:12
but it's just
37:13
just so incredible
37:20
all these sets are going to be gone
37:20
again very thankful to be allowed to do
37:22
this
38:03
it's also kind of eerie when you're in
38:03
here because you just expect traffic to
38:04
be driving through here
38:07
you're standing in the roads like oh
38:09
yeah get out of the road
38:10
could be cars driving through but
38:12
there's no cars driving through so for a
38:14
couple of employees
38:27
over here on the far end is a bank that
38:27
was using the Flying Nun
38:30
while the city sleeps Earth's versus the
38:32
flying saucers
38:34
the bank right here
39:12
it's kind of a unique Little Alley here
39:12
that's been themed
39:25
you can even see some of the theming
39:25
that's been painted on the side of the
39:27
wall here
39:28
just to make it look kind of
39:31
a different environment
39:41
you pretty much utilize every little
39:43
nook and cranny
40:16
through all the execs would park their
40:16
cars
40:22
all right heading out now I'm in my
40:22
rental car
40:24
and I'm just gonna drive along this
40:26
street right here
40:47
it's just so wild that I'm doing this to
40:47
be honest
40:52
don't mind me just driving around the
40:52
Horseshoe here looking at the pool
41:05
hahaha
41:05
unbelievable
41:43
it'd be interesting years from now to
41:43
look back on
41:45
you know being in here
41:51
once this is all sound stages and all
41:51
this is bulldozed
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head now I'll see you in the next video
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the Vlog is
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over