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This month we're featuring the classic 1990s music video "Motownphilly" from Boyz II Men which used several spots around Philadelphia as filming locations, two movies showing the historic Culver City, California City Hall building: The Laurel and Hardy movie "Going Bye-Bye" from 1934 and The Little Rascals movie "Small Talk" from 1929. Our fourth movie being highlighted this month is the comedy short "Sneak Easily" starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts which features a great then and now look at the old Fletcher Viaduct site in Los Angeles and the recently opened Beverly Hills City Hall.
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The movie locations above cover the period 1927 through 2009, from the Los Angeles area to the Atlanta suburb of Mableton, Georgia. The Little Rascals movie Teacher's Pet then and now film location photo has undergone the biggest change since filming in 1930, while the Tyler Perry filming location for the movie Madea Goes To Jail and the Laurel and Hardy and The Taxi Boys movie locations are virtually unchanged.
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Special Event! Culver City Historical Society Watch Party!
Click the image above to view my "watch party" I held at the Culver City Historical Society in April, 2025. I showed my then and now filming locations video documentary of The Little Rascals movie "Fish Hooky" and one of those unintentionally funny 1960s "educational" films that we all had to endure back in elementary school. The evening ended with some brief excerpts from my filming location video documentaries from The Twilight Zone, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Hunter and Starsky and Hutch.
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This Month's Filming Locations Quick Preview Videos
Boys II Men - Motownphilly (1991)
In the Summer of 1991, you couldn't listen to the radio (remember radio?) or watch MTV (remember when MTV played music videos?) without coming across the song "Motownphilly" by Boyz II Men. The song was the debut single from the group and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.
The music video was filmed in the group's hometown of Philadelphia, and in this then and now look at the music video filming locations, it's striking how none of the sites have changed and, more notably, how they're just as nice looking today as they were back in 1991 when the music video was filmed.
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Laurel and Hardy - Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
Laurel and Hardy testify in court to put away a dangerous criminal. At the sentencing, Mr. Laurel expresses his displeasure that the criminal isn't getting the death penalty ("Aren't you going to hang him?") and the criminal vows to break out of jail to seek vengeance on the duo. Laurel and Hardy plan a quick exit out of town, but true to his word, the convict breaks out of jail and catches up with them!
In this then and now filming location video, we get a great view of the old City Hall building in Culver City. The building lasted into the 1990s and appeared in many movies and TV episodes through the decades. Today, a replica of the facade stands at this movie location.
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The Little Rascals - Small Talk (1929)
This is the first "talking" Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie. While most of the movie was shot inside a soundstage at the Hal Roach Studios, there were several scenes filmed outdoors on location nearby in Culver City.
This quick preview then and now filming location video gives us a great view of the front and side of the historic City Hall building, along with a row of houses nearby that are unchanged since this movie was filmed in 1929.
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Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts - Sneak Easily (1932)
In the early 1930s when the popularity of Laurel and Hardy was at its peak, producer Hal Roach had the idea that he could offer a series of films with a female version of the Laurel and Hardy characters. Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts were chosen, with Todd assuming the Hardy role and Pitts the Laurel character.
This movie is one of the best in the series and gives us some great views of the recently opened Beverly Hills City Hall building, along with the old Pacific Electric Railway's historic Fletcher Viaduct.
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This Month's Featured Filming Location Then And Now Photos
Tyler Perry - Madea Goes To Jail (2009)
The then and now photo above is from the famous parking lot scene from Madea Goes To Jail. In it, Madea takes revenge on a woman who steals her parking space (which, unbelievably, Madea was waiting patiently for!).
The movie location for this scene is a strip mall in Mableton, Georgia, just a short distance from the Tyler Perry Studios. The anchor store is no longer a K-Mart and the facade of the former K-Mart store seen in the first part of the scene has been changed to reflect the new tenant, but the part of the mall shown at the end of the scene in the then and now photo above is basically unchanged.
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Laurel and Hardy - Love 'Em And Weep (1927)
This Laurel and Hardy movie was made prior to the establishment of the two characters we normally associate with the team. The then and now photo above is from a scene early in the film in front of an apartment building on South Kenmore Avenue in Los Angeles. Built in 1926, the building has been well maintained through the decades and today appears exactly as it was when it was a film location for this Laurel and Hardy movie back in 1927.
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The Little Rascals - Teacher's Pet (1930)
This Little Rascals movie, Teacher's Pet, is the best film in the series. The plot is simple: The kids have a new teacher, Miss Crabtree, and they try to sabotage her first day. Things backfire when they discover that Miss Crabtree is just as sweet as their previous teacher, Miss McGillicuddy.
The then and now photo above shows Miss Crabtree dropping off Jackie Cooper (presumably) near the school. This filming location in 1930 at the intersection of Venice Blvd and La Cienega Blvd featured a large viaduct for the Pacific Electric Railway's Venice Short Line which ran down the middle of Venice Blvd all the way to Venice Beach. Back then, it was a very quick and efficient way to get to the beach from downtown Los Angeles. If you were to drive the same route today, it would take twice as long compared to 1930. So much for "progress."
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The Taxi Boys - Bring 'Em Back A Wife (1933)
Most of you have probably never heard of The Taxi Boys series of short comedy films made in the early 1930s, unless you've done a "deep dive" on this website where several of their movies are covered. The films featured many of the supporting actors from the Laurel and Hardy films and the Little Rascals movies, along with the same background tunes. No coincidence, as these films were all made by the Hal Roach Studios!
The Taxi Boys films were notable not because they were particularly good (though some in the series were), but because they made extensive use of location filming all around the west side of Los Angeles. When viewing these films today, we are basically time traveling and seeing large parts of the area as they were prior to being developed into the housing developments and strip malls that we see in these parts of Los Angeles today.
The then and now film location photo above shows the Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City, California. Back in 1933, it was surrounded by busy streets. The street on the east side of the hotel (Washington Blvd) has been rerouted and in its place today is a pedestrian mall.
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Special Event! Culver City Historical Society Watch Party!
On April 22, 2025 I paid a visit to Culver City, California, the Heart Of Screenland, where I was honored to present a watch party showing a few of my filming location then and now videos and photos from the 1930s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s covering Culver City, Venice and the nearby neighborhood of Palms to a full house at The Culver City Historical Society.
We started out by watching my complete filming locations documentary of the 1933 movie "Fish Hooky" by The Little Rascals. I chose this Little Rascals movie because we get to see some amazing views of the Venice Amusement pier in addition to the (then) beautiful Ballona Creek which today is a massive concrete flood control channel.
Next up on the program was one of those "educational" films that, if you were a kid growing up in the USA in the 1950s - 1970s, you no doubt were forced to watch at school. This film, "The Strange Ones," has as its theme "Don't talk to strangers." Made on a very low budget, "The Strange Ones" was filmed entirely on the streets of Culver City and in nearby Venice. As an added bonus, the video below includes a Zoom interview I conducted with the star of the movie, "Karen." So, even if you were there that night, you'll want to watch this video for the interview "bonus" feature!
Third on the "watch list" were some excerpts from my filming location then and now videos from several TV series filmed in the neighborhoods of Culver City from the 1960s - 1980s, including The Twilight Zone, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch and Hunter.
To close out the evening, I took questions from the audience and hung around afterwards to chat.
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