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    You could say I'm a bit of an eighties nerd. I run the world's largest retro website, I've written a book all about the 80s and I spend way too much time listening to 80s music and watching 80s movies. So you can probably imagine my excitement when I got the opportunity to jet off to L.A. on a mission to track down the filming locations of some of the very best movies of the eighties.A business meeting in California gave me the opportunity to stay with some friends in San Diego for the weekend and these good and very patient friends of mine kindly agreed to spend a long day driving me hundreds of miles around L.A. hunting down cool photo opportunities.When the good people at retro t-shirt store TruffleShuffle.co.uk heard about my forthcoming mission, they kindly agreed to give me the matching t-shirts to wear in each location. (Make sure you check out their website, they have the coolest t-shirts in the world - seriously!)So at the weekend, after all the business meetings were concluded, I threw on my first 80s t-shirt and headed off in search of the first stop on our circular tour - Doc Emmet Brown's house from Back to the Future. Next up was Elliot's house from E.T. (the Extra-Terrestrial)The next stop was the holy grail of 80s film locations - Marty McFly's house from Back to the FutureI had hoped to get to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air's house but Google Street View showed me that you really couldn't see much of it because of the trees planted all around the perimeter so we skipped this in favour of visiting Hollywood instead. We saw the famous Hollywood sign on the hills and the walk of fame with the stars names and handprints on the ground. We also popped into the famous Roosevelt Hotel where Marilyn Monroe began her modelling career and took a look around. Something struck me as very familiar about the pool area at the hotel and a quick Google revelased the reason: this was the place they filmed the scene where Tom Hanks catches up with Leonardo DiCaprio in "Catch Me If You Can".After a cracking meal in the Hard Rock Cafe, we set off for our next destination: Ferris Bueller's house!And then swung by Hill Valley High School from Back to the Future.The final stop on our tour was the Puente Hills Mall, better known as Twin Pines Mall from Back to the Future. This was where the scene with the DeLorean was filmed. It has just got dark as we arrived which was perfect since this scene was shot at night time anyway and seemed all the more familiar in darkness!We managed to get around all these locations in one tiring day with about 300 miles of driving. We spotted two more filming locations the next day, one from The Naked Gun ("Everywhere I look, something reminds me of her")...And the bar from Top Gun where they filmed the "Great Balls of Fire" scene. In fact if you look carefully, you can see the actual piano they used in the far right corner of the picture.Thanks again to the people at TruffleShuffle.co.uk for providing the cool t-shirts and for my amazing friends Dale and Jayne who drove me around and helped me fulfil my nerdy dream!

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    Re: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

    I am so jealous I would love to do something like this but my wife doesnt understand why I get excited about stuff like this

    When we were in vegas near the bellagio fountains I told her that this was where they filmed the closing scenes of oceans 11 (the new one) and she just looked at me like I was a nerd !!!!
    Age is just a number - If yours bothers you stop counting

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      Re: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

      The boot camp scenes in "Starship Troopers" was filmed at a park right near my house. They built this futuristic-looking military base right in the middle of the park which at the time was used for flying model airplanes and land sailing. Sadly, they expanded the golf course into that area about ten years ago.

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        Re: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

        Originally posted by Jay Mc View Post
        I am so jealous I would love to do something like this but my wife doesnt understand why I get excited about stuff like this

        When we were in vegas near the bellagio fountains I told her that this was where they filmed the closing scenes of oceans 11 (the new one) and she just looked at me like I was a nerd !!!!
        I was in Vegas this past weekend and saw the Bellagio fountains. I was staying at the other end of the Strip where I took this pic of the Riviera which was one of the shooting locations of the movie "Casino." Much of the interior scenes of the film's fictitious Tangiers Casino were filmed at the Riviera because it has a sort of retro '70s look to it. The Stardust (since demolished) stood in for the exterior of the Tangiers.

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          Re: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

          http://www.bigwaste.com/bttf/index.shtml

          This site has almost all the locations for Back To The Future & a few others.

          The LA storm drains have featured in many films, including Grease, Terminator 2 & lots more.
          The Trickster On The Roof

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            Re: 80s Movies Filming Locations in L.A.

            Parts of Back to the Future was filmed in Pasadena whose charming old neighbourhoods make it a favourite shooting location for countless movies and TV shows. The 1955 homes of Biff, George and Lorraine were filmed there as was Doc's home which was the historic Gamble House.
            Last edited by victorbrunswick; 03-03-2015, 15:26.

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