TDW 1625 - Nearly Forgotten Fake Hollywood ?

0:03 Disney's Hollywood

0:03 Studios. I don't think I'll ever be able

0:06 to call it that. You'll always be MGM to

0:09 me. Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.

0:13 Today's video is going to be

0:15 interactive. If you choose to accept

0:18 this Columbbo like research skill

0:21 mission, I will be giving addresses that

0:24 you can look up on Google satellite view

0:26 and Google Earth and Street View. So, if

0:29 you want to follow along, you have that

0:32 ability. It's my second channel, daily

0:34 vlog channel. It's the Daily Woo. Before

0:38 this was renamed Hollywood Studios, it

0:41 always had a very strong Hollywood

0:44 theme. In fact, nearly every building in

0:47 the park is completely resembled and

0:51 emulated off of a real facade in

0:54 California. And because of my love of

0:56 the origins of this place and the fact

0:58 that I lived in California for a year

1:00 and a half, I've been wanting to do this

1:03 subject for quite some time. Long before

1:06 they wanted you to believe that you were

1:08 in a galaxy far, far away, they wanted

1:11 you to believe you were in Hollywood. In

1:14 fact, the trash cans still say, "Keep

1:17 our city clean." A city that in your

1:21 imagination is over 2,000 miles away

1:24 from where I'm standing right now in

1:27 Orlando. Hooray for Hollywood Land. It

1:30 used to be called Hollywood Land, but

1:31 now it's Hollywood on the West Coast.

1:33 And it used to be MGM Studios here and

1:35 now it's Hollywood Studios here in CMI,

1:39 Florida. Just ask Bo. He

1:42 knows. Bo knows. But they no longer

1:46 really follow that theming. The dark

1:48 side has taken over. What have you done

1:52 with Michael Eisner? They do that Star

1:55 Wars march every hour, so I have to be

1:57 quick in between the stormtroopers to

2:00 get these shots of Hollywood Boulevard

2:02 and sunset.

2:05 In 1989, when the Imagineers built the

2:08 roads here, they took painstaking detail

2:11 to recreate. Someone was yelling at me.

2:14 And I will not mention the Tower of

2:15 Terror, which of course was named after

2:17 the Hollywood Tower in Los Angeles, or

2:19 the recreation of Cara Circle, which is

2:22 where Snow White premiered in 1937, or

2:26 the rock formations commonly referred to

2:28 as Two Gates. If you were in California,

2:31 that would lead you to the Hollywood

2:32 sign. I want to dig a little bit deeper

2:34 into Sunset Boulevard, which was

2:36 actually built a few years after opening

2:38 day, and Hollywood Boulevard, which

2:41 premiered on opening day. So naturally,

2:43 I will not be mentioning the Chinese

2:45 Theater, which deserves a subject matter

2:48 all of its own, or Echo Lake, which is a

2:51 scale model version of a similar named

2:54 lake in California. And check out this

2:57 dinosaur. The specific name for that

3:00 architecture, it's called California

3:02 Crazy. I'm serious. That is the specific

3:04 name. That boat falls in that category

3:06 as well. But what I do want to

3:08 concentrate on is the amazingly blatant

3:11 squirrel. the amazing painstaking detail

3:14 that went into every building here that

3:17 is walked past daily virtually

3:19 unnoticed. In a topic completely

3:21 different than the subject at hand, they

3:23 have removed the wall and all the busts

3:26 from this little area. Walt was right

3:29 there. They got rid of Walt. What? Oh,

3:32 great. We got to move fast cuz they're

3:34 coming through right now. Oh, man.

3:38 On your way. I'm sorry, sir. Good.

3:41 Another honorable mention that I will

3:43 not talk about, of course, is the

3:45 Hollywood Brown Derby recreation. Oh

3:48 gosh, here they come again. I'm sensing

3:51 a very Howard the Duck theme. So, let's

3:53 start off at the entryway to the park.

3:56 You see this thing called the Crossroads

3:58 of the World. And if you look up on

4:01 street view,

4:03 6671 Sunset Boulevard, you will see this

4:07 exact structure sitting there. And a lot

4:10 of people don't even realize that when

4:12 you walk into the former MGM Hollywood

4:14 Studios that you are passing a piece of

4:17 West Coast history. The only major

4:19 difference is this one has a Mickey

4:21 Mouse on top that acts also as a

4:24 lightning rod. I wonder how many times

4:26 lightning has struck that little guy.

4:29 This gas service station really is not

4:31 based on one particular address, but

4:34 just a conglomerate of Southern

4:36 California old school gas station.

4:39 tagging along today. It's Micah, who

4:41 probably is the only friend I have that

4:44 has the same joy of old school MGM.

4:48 Yeah. It's funny you say that because

4:49 you are also one of the only friends I

4:51 have who cares. We might be We might be

4:53 the only two people on Earth that cares.

4:55 That care. We care. We care. I'm going

4:57 to start on this side of the road and

5:01 work my way down Hollywood Boulevard,

5:03 down Sunset, come back down, then loop

5:07 back down this side of Hollywood

5:09 Boulevard and maybe over to Echo Lake.

5:12 So, that's the order I'm going to go in.

5:13 Movie star. Yeah, I know. I know.

5:17 Technically, you need to make a movie

5:19 every 10 years to be considered a movie

5:21 star. It's been a long time. I've never

5:23 seen a movie star in real life. I'm a

5:24 movie star. Do you know who I think?

5:26 What? You're in Hollywood, California.

5:27 You're going to see all kinds of movie

5:28 stars. I hopefully that rolling. It is.

5:31 Hi, it's me, Dorman, the greatest star

5:33 of the entire universe. I want you all

5:34 to come and see my brand new film. It's

5:36 coming out this spring. It's called

5:38 Pardon My Wind. Pardon My Wind. Yes.

5:42 Isn't it That's a sequel, isn't it? Yes,

5:43 it is a sequel to I've known you Far Too

5:46 Long.

5:47 I don't know why the critics are already

5:48 calling you stinking. They really are.

5:50 Yeah. At 7290 Beverly Boulevard is the

5:54 inspiration for the corner piece here

5:57 and it's the far entrance into what they

6:00 call the dark room. And you can see the

6:03 pillar looks very similar. Even the

6:05 structure and the design leading up the

6:08 pillar at 5370 Wilshshire Boulevard used

6:11 to sit the dark room, but it still

6:14 exists here on the east coast. In fact,

6:17 it is an exact reproduction of what the

6:20 one out in Hollywood used to look like

6:23 down to the camera and the entryway door

6:27 to the left.

6:30 I always thought I was getting my

6:31 picture taken. No, it's not real. It's a

6:33 facade. This one, I think, is the only

6:36 one not based out of California. It was

6:38 New York City and it was imitated after

6:42 something called the McGra building. And

6:44 the color scheme is different, but the

6:46 stripes and doorway and windows

6:49 identical. At 6600 Hollywood Boulevard

6:53 sits a wig shop. The color of the

6:55 building is a little different, but

6:57 everything else still looks the same as

6:59 its California counterpart, including

7:02 these little emblems up top, the

7:05 windows, the front door.

7:09 Very cool. at 3451 West 6th Street sits

7:14 a former market and they have designed

7:17 this very close in

7:20 detail down to the shingles and the

7:24 little square roof formation as you turn

7:28 off of Hollywood Boulevard onto Sunset

7:32 sits this building which used to be in

7:35 California a place called the Ivy

7:38 substation. Okay, hang out with us. And

7:40 the front of this is based

7:43 off of that building. What I find

7:44 incredible is the fact that the little

7:47 awning where the rain pours off the roof

7:50 looks the same, as well as this

7:53 secondary level. You know, the windows

7:55 are a little bit different, but the

7:56 front door looks the same. And also

7:59 tucked in behind these trees,

8:01 unbeknownst to almost everyone, is a

8:03 billboard for the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

8:06 Look at that thing dilapidated at 3141

8:09 West

8:10 Manchester since the old Academy

8:12 Theater. It was built for the Academy

8:14 Awards, but it never panned out and they

8:17 never hosted the ceremony there. And it

8:20 looks down to the font

8:24 exactly. They look exactly like each

8:26 other, which is amazing. 507 Wilshshire

8:30 Boulevard. And this is just a sample of

8:33 what the real building looks like. But

8:35 this little glass part looks the same.

8:38 The door and this little

8:40 awning. Can't deny it. The old Lena

8:43 Theater was the inspiration for what is

8:46 now Planet Hollywood. Especially when

8:48 you look at this, man. That is so so

8:52 cool. And of course, they've added the

8:54 Globe here in Florida, but everything

8:57 else looks the same. Not to be confused

8:59 with White Castle, the burger place, but

9:01 there used to be a place called White

9:03 Tower, and that is what this is modeled

9:06 after. Down to the light and lamp posts

9:09 that are dangling off the side and the

9:12 window formation all the way up in

9:14 Northern California in the city of

9:16 Oakland at 1900 Telegraph Avenue used to

9:20 be a floral place and that's where they

9:22 based this on. The detail is very

9:25 incredible down to the little nooks and

9:27 crannies and the, you know, the little

9:29 pillars on the side of the windows and

9:31 stuff. Man, that's amazing how much time

9:33 and effort they put into creating these.

9:36 I don't know where Micah went, though. I

9:38 lost him. Oh, there he is. I was

9:39 wondering where you went. They don't

9:40 even sell flowers in there. No, no, it's

9:42 a recreation. This isn't the original.

9:44 It's a

9:45 recreation at 9169 Sunset Boulevard in

9:49 West Hollywood was the inspiration for

9:52 this. And I think this is the first one

9:54 we've come across on Sunset here in

9:57 Florida that is based on one on Sunset

10:01 Boulevard in California. And that's

10:04 pretty cool. Mouse about town. You

10:08 wouldn't think they would take this

10:09 little teeny tiny space and model it

10:11 after something, but at 132 West

10:14 Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, they

10:17 have taken that structure and turned it

10:21 into this one. Although it's not a

10:24 particular address per se, there is a

10:27 little homage to Anaheim and Disneyland

10:31 area here as well in this produce stand

10:34 at 12 East Colorado Boulevard in

10:38 Pasadena sits this building. And the

10:42 thing that's really awesome about the

10:44 structure here at Hollywood Studios, if

10:47 you look up top, you will see the

10:50 formation of flowers across the

10:54 mural decor on top. It's almost

10:58 identical down to the little like every

11:00 little

11:02 detail as the one in California. And

11:05 they've even thrown another homage to

11:07 Muscle Beach. Venice Beach. That's

11:10 right.

11:11 That's right. That's where Anie That's

11:12 where Annie That's right. Yeah, that's

11:14 right. That's where Come on. That's

11:15 where I got That's where I got pumped

11:17 up. Right there. Come on. At 171 South

11:21 Aoyo

11:22 Parkway is a building now that sits

11:26 pretty much empty used as a storage shed

11:28 that this building was taken inspiration

11:31 from. The really cool thing is these

11:33 metal poles up

11:35 top. They're there in California. Also,

11:39 this one was based on an old Warner

11:42 Brothers theater that has been torn

11:44 down. It's interesting that they would

11:47 have something that is Warner Brothers

11:50 related at a Disney park. This is not WB

11:55 territory, but it looks pretty much

11:58 identical. Well, as identical as you can

12:00 get to an old black and white photo, but

12:02 pretty freaking awesome. And yes, even

12:06 this fountain is a miniature

12:09 reproduction of a bigger one as well. Oh

12:13 no, not again. They just will not give

12:24 up. At 6382 Hollywood Boulevard sits

12:24 this building. And it used to be a

12:27 drugstore by the name of Owl Drug. The

12:30 only difference is the pillar on top is

12:34 on the opposite side of the real

12:36 version, but everything else is

12:38 completely

12:40 identical. At 2417 Dolly Street sits the

12:45 old municipal light, water, and power

12:47 building, but here it's called Taylor's

12:51 to the stars. The coloration is a little

12:54 bit different, but if you look up top,

12:57 you will see a little plate mural. Well,

12:59 here it says Disney Hollywood Studios,

13:02 the one and only Mel's Diner just off

13:04 Hollywood Boulevard, was used as the

13:06 inspiration for this pink building. The

13:10 door

13:11 archway pretty much looks the same,

13:13 except the the building's a little

13:15 narrower here in Florida as it is to the

13:18 west coast. Many years ago, there was a

13:20 place called the Wilshshire Bowl, and

13:22 you could actually bowl inside. At least

13:25 I think you could. The building has been

13:27 gone for a long time and the only tidbit

13:30 left are photos of it or this recreation

13:34 here at Hollywood Studios. A little

13:36 homage to bowling. I wonder if she's

13:39 going bowling. Are you going bowling?

13:42 Yes. I would love to. All right. I got a

13:45 date. I got a bowling date. You do? I

13:48 got to find one. Where's Abby? That's

13:49 the way most of my dates work. They say

13:51 yes and then they just drive off into

13:53 the sunset Boulevard in this case.

13:55 located at 6424 Santa Monica Boulevard

13:59 is the inspiration for the Disney and

14:03 Company structure which is made famous

14:06 on opening day when Michael Eisner and

14:09 B. Midler drove right past it. Man, this

14:12 place is cool. You see Pluto up there

14:15 chilling on top of the roof and in the

14:16 window there is a sign stating Lindapaw

14:20 Pet Clinic which is kind of funny

14:22 because it's based on a real pet clinic

14:24 or at least used to be a very long time

14:27 ago located at 940 North Highland Avenue

14:31 and instead of a Dalmatian we got Pluto

14:34 up there. I don't know what do you

14:36 think's better, a Dalmatian or Pluto?

14:39 Both of them have a Disney relation, but

14:41 I think Pluto is a little more

14:43 recognizable. There used to be a former

14:45 bank located at

14:47 5209 Wilshshire. And the only difference

14:50 between both coasts, the really the only

14:53 difference is the fact that there are

14:55 just one pillar shy here in Florida. But

14:59 the door is in the same spot and the

15:01 little gold emblems near the top of the

15:04 roof and the lighting, all that's the

15:07 same. The Bane building is located at

15:11 6601 Hollywood

15:13 Boulevard. And they even have the

15:15 upstairs apartments with the awnings and

15:18 the walkways. And the thing that's

15:20 really cool about this is the front

15:23 door, the way it kind of

15:25 like fonses its way upward. Walk back

15:29 over to Echo Lake. Now on that side

15:32 there is this really cool building which

15:36 you cannot look up on Google Earth. This

15:38 is the old Mayan theater and it's inside

15:42 that they took the exterior facade in

15:46 Florida is based on the California

15:48 interiors. One thing that's really neat

15:51 about this is the fact that there is an

15:53 ATM in between these two wild and crazy

15:57 snakes. At 6926 Melrose Avenue is what

16:02 they formulated this dentistry building

16:05 to look like. I think they just used

16:07 half of the OG building to create this

16:10 one. But there's no denying that is

16:12 definitely it. Here at Peeve's, you can

16:15 get drinks and it's themed around the

16:17 Rocketeer. But in real life, it is a

16:20 fire station. Fire station number one in

16:22 Lincoln Heights,

16:25 California. Pretty freaking cool how the

16:28 architecture

16:30 matches something halfway across well

16:33 all the way in fact across the country.

16:35 Okay, and the last one to present to you

16:38 is actually based in San Francisco, not

16:41 in Los Angeles. 200 Powell Street. And

16:45 the color formation is a little bit

16:48 different, but the way the windows are

16:50 and the metal awnings over the windows

16:53 and the formation of the way the like

16:55 nooks and crannies appear. Yeah, that's

16:58 pretty much it. Looks like Gertie is

17:00 exuding smoke from its nose. And with

17:05 all that smoky goodness bestuning into

17:07 the heavens, I think it is now time to

17:09 say vlog

17:20 over. Oh yeah, one last thing. Even

17:20 though I lived in California for a year

17:21 and a half and I pass a lot of those

17:23 locations and I've been going to MGM for

17:27 so many years and I knew a lot of those

17:29 spots, there were a couple places that

17:31 were really difficult to find and I

17:35 stumbled on a really cool website called

17:38 yesterland.com and I found the one or

17:40 two buildings that I could not use my

17:43 Columbbo like research skills to

17:46 find. So check that website out. It's

17:48 really cool.

TDW 1625 - Nearly Forgotten Fake Hollywood ?

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