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Laurel and Hardy - Our Gang / The Little Rascals - The Three Stooges

Buster Keaton - Charlie Chaplin - Harold Lloyd

Abbott and Costello - Charley Chase - Edgar Kennedy - Glenn Tryon - Max Davidson - The Taxi Boys - The Boy Friends - Tyler Perry - Thelma Todd - Zasu Pitts - Patsy Kelly

Charlie's Angels - The Twilight Zone - CHiPs - Emergency! - SCTV - Hunter - Starsky and Hutch - I Dream of Jeannie - The Sopranos - Star Trek

Madonna - Spandau Ballet - The Stranglers - Cyndi Lauper - White Town - Boyz II Men - Michael Jackson - Dexys Midnight Runners

Reefer Madness - Dead Right - The Strange Ones

We travel this month to the Los Angeles area and Philadelphia covering a music video and three short comedy movies from 1929 through 1991.

First up is the music video Motownphilly from the pop group Boyz II Men. Filmed entirely on location around Philadelphia, each of the filming locations seen in the music video are just as they were in 1991.

It's then off to the west coast and Culver City, California for a look at the locations used in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy comedy Going Bye-Bye! This film gives us some great looks at the City Hall building in Culver City along with the passenger railway tracks that used to run right through the center of town.

Staying in Culver City, we also take a look at the first "talking" movie in the Our Gang / The Little Rascals series, Small Talk. Filmed in 1929, this movie gives us additional amazing views of the City Hall building in Culver City.

Finally, we head over to Beverly Hills and the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles for a look at the filming locations then and now used in the 1932 Thelma Todd / Zasu Pitts movie Sneak Easily. There's a great look at the brand-new City Hall building in Beverly Hills, along with an important piece of Los Angeles infrastructure in Silver Lake: The Fletcher Viaduct of the Pacific Electric Railway.

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Heading out to the Atlanta, Georgia area and a visit to the Los Angeles area this month to cover filming locations from 1927 to 2009 this month.

Tyler Perry has a huge studio in the Atlanta area and he frequently films on location in the area. In the 2009 movie Madea Goes To Jail, the famous parking lot scene filmed in a strip mall in Mableton, Georgia. The mall is still there and most of the tenants seen in 2009 are still there, though the K-Mart which is featured in the film has been replaced with a new retail tenant and the entrance has been remodeled.

Next is the best Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie in the series, Teacher's Pet. Made in 1930 and filmed on location all over the west side of Los Angeles, we look at the many changes to the filming locations made since this movie was shot 95 years ago.

We then head further back in time for the 1927 early Laurel and Hardy movie Love 'Em And Weep. Several key scenes were filmed outside on location and each of those locations are looking the same today as they did in 1927.

This month's blog entries wrap up with a look at the filming locations then and now from the 1933 movie Bring 'Em Back A Wife from The Taxi Boys series of short comedies. The Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City, California appears in this one, looking exactly as it did in 1933. We also get a great view of the old Pacific Electric Railway tracks that used to run down the middle of Culver Blvd.

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A music video filming location from the punk rock band The Stranglers and movie filming locations then and now from Our Gang / The Little Rascals, Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase are covered this month.

We visit Leighton House in London, England to start this month. This was the filming location used by the punk rock band The Stranglers for the music video for their 1982 song Golden Brown. The location is exquisite and today is a museum, open to the public.

An early Our Gang / The Little Rascals "talking film" is up next, The First Seven Years. Like many movies in the series, this movie was shot on location in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles and we look at the dramatic changes to the area since 1930.

An early Laurel and Hardy feature film, Pack Up Your Troubles made great use of filming locations in Santa Monica, California, Beverly Hills and Culver City. The scene at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills is fascinating to look at - the park layout hasn't changed at all since 1932!

The Culver Hotel in Culver City is our subject as we wrap up the month, looking at scenes from the 1925 Charley Chase comedy movie His Wooden Wedding. 

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Filming locations for Our Gang / The Little Rascals, a film from The Three Stooges, a Laurel and Hardy comedy and a fun Charley Chase short are in the spotlight this month.

Hi'-Neighbor! is first. This Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie is the one where a rich kid with a fancy fire engine moves into the neighborhood and the Gang build their own fire engine that all the kids can ride at once. Filming locations for this movie were in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles and the Echo Park area. Both locations look the same today as they did in 1934.

Next up is the 1935 movie Hoi Polloi from The Three Stooges and we look at the 100 block of North Larchmont Blvd in Los Angeles. The area is almost unchanged from when The Stooges created mayhem on location here 90 years ago.

Laurel and Hardy filmed scenes for their 1928 movie Their Purple Moment outside a house that was nearly a casualty of the construction of the I-10 freeway. Fortunately, the planners located the new highway across the street from the house and the entire block looks the same today as it did when Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy visited to film on location in 1928.

Charley Chase chose the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles as the filming site for his 1933 comedy Midsummer Mush. Unfortunately, this filming location has radically changed in just the past 10 years. We do an in-depth analysis of the changes.

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This month we spend some time in Culver City, California, the West Adams Historic District of Los Angeles and journey to the planet Cestus III.

The Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Canned Fishing was one of the last films made by series creator Hal Roach Studios. By this time, almost all scenes in the movies were filmed on Hal Roach Studios soundstages, but this film went out on location to film outside scenes in the backyard of a real house in Culver City. The house is still standing though there have been a few changes since 1938.

Laurel and Hardy are up next in their 1930 comedy Hog Wild. There's plenty of on location filming to cover in this one and we look at filming locations in Culver City and the campus of USC in downtown Los Angeles.

We then journey to the planet Cestus III (actually the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park about 45 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles) to join Captain Kirk as he battles against a hostile alien in the Star Trek episode Arena. You'll instantly recognize this site from other Star Trek episodes and many, many other films.

Charley Chase takes us to the West Adams Historic District of Los Angeles for scenes filmed on location at a very beautiful mansion. His 1930 movie Fast Work filmed at the same mansion that Laurel and Hardy also used in 1930 for their classic comedy Another Nice Mess.

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To kick off the new year, we take a look at the Los Angeles area filming locations of four movies from the 1920s and 1930s.

The Three Stooges didn't do much filming on location as they had the Columbia (Studios) Ranch in Burbank at their disposal, but in the 1939 comedy Calling All Curs, they did venture out onto the streets of Los Angeles. The on location scene was filmed just a short distance from the studio on Fernwood Avenue. The building still stands and the sidewalks are the same (though the trees there today are not the same as those seen in the film unfortunately).

The second film we examine this month is the 1929 Laurel and Hardy movie Men O' War. This movie was filmed almost entirely on location at beautiful Hollenbeck Park just across the Los Angeles river from downtown Los Angeles. As you'll see, the park was much nicer looking then compared to now.

One of the last of the Our Gang / The Little Rascals silent movies, Cat, Dog & Co. is up next. Like many of the movies in the series, they filmed in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles and we take a look at these filming locations then and now.

Finally, we go back to 1924 and the Charley Chase comedy All Wet. This movie was filmed on location at the same spot as the 1923 Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Dogs of War. It's a real treat as we get to see the neighborhood as it was just being built back in 1923/24 and we look at the same filming location then and now today.

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This month we take a look at filming locations then and now from three comedy short movies from 1929 and 1930.

An early Our Gang / The Little Rascals "talking" movie, Boxing Gloves, is first. Scenes for this movie were filmed on location at the corner of Motor Avenue and Woodbine Street in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles. This was a VERY popular filming location in Our Gang / The Little Rascals movies. And... the building featured in this film is still standing today (though covered in a thick coat of stucco).

The holiday season is upon us and Laurel and Hardy are selling Christmas trees in their movie Big Business. As of this writing both of the houses used as filming locations in this movie are still standing.

Lastly, we do a deep dive examination of the filming locations used in the 1930  Nat Carr movie Traffic Tangle. Filmed entirely outdoors, on location in downtown Culver City, California and the adjacent residential neighborhood, this movie is an amazing time capsule.

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This month we're exclusively focusing on filming locations then and now from the Charlie's Angels episode Angels on the Street.

Like most cop / detective shows, Charlie's Angels did quite a bit of on location filming. This episode did most of its filming in downtown Culver City, California. At this time, Culver City was not the prosperous, bustling little town we see in many of the Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase and Max Davidson movies filmed here in the 1920s and 1930s covered on this site. By now, the town was in sharp decline and this episode does a great job of chronicling the decline.

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A music video, two comedy movies and an episode of a popular 1970s TV series this month.

An early music video starts us off this month, Borderline by Madonna. Filmed in 1983 in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles, most of the filming locations look exactly the same today as they do in the video. However, one of the locations (the pool hall) has been demolished. 

We head back to the west side of Los Angeles for the 1929 Laurel and Hardy comedy movie Perfect Day. The filming locations then and now for this site today match up exactly as they were when this film shot on location.

Staying on the west side of Los Angeles, next up is the 1930 Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Bear Shooters. The Gang has built an extraordinary camper and we get to see it and some of the on location filming in the Palms neighborhood. The then and now look at the filming locations are pretty stunning.

Moving to 1974, we look at the filming locations used in the episode Nagging Suspicion from the TV series Emergency! Each of these locations from the episode are easily identifiable today, especially the "Squad 51" fire station building.

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In this month's filming locations then and now blogs we take a look at an episode from an iconic TV series as well as three comedy movies.

The Twilight Zone first aired in the late 1950s and 1960s and is still wildly popular today. Looking at the episode You Drive, filmed in the residential neighborhood right across from MGM Studios in Culver City, California, today it's easy to spot the houses and streets seen in the episode. Nothing much has changed.

Laurel and Hardy filmed their comedy short Another Nice Mess in 1930 in the Adams Historic District in Los Angeles. The mansion seen in the movie is still standing today (one of the few mansions in that area to have survived this long) and is in great shape. We also take a look at some of the downtown Los Angeles filming locations used in the film.

The Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Pups Is Pups from 1930 kept up the tradition of filming on location that the predecessor movies in the series established. This film has filming locations all over the Los Angeles area, ending at the St. Brendan Catholic Church at Third Street and Van Ness. The church door hasn't changed at all in 95 years, right down to the door handles!

Our blogs wrap up this month with the 1928 Max Davidson short comedy movie Dumb Daddies. Like several other Max Davidson movies, this film shot on location in downtown Culver City, California on Main Street. The good news is that ALL of the buildings seen in this film 96 years ago are still standing today.

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This month we cover filming locations then and now from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Los Angeles, and to Wharton and Morristown New Jersey.

We start in 1983 with the music video to the Cyndi Lauper song Time After Time. On location filming took place in Morris County, New Jersey in the towns of Wharton and Morristown. Both of these filming locations look the same today as they did back in 1983.

The Academy Award winning Laurel and Hardy short movie The Music Box is up next, with it's world famous "Laurel and Hardy stairs" location. The stairs, houses and even the cracks in the sidewalk are just the same as they were when this movie filmed on location in late 1931.

One of the most fun Our Gang / The Little Rascals movies in the series is Fish Hooky. This 1933 movie shot on the banks of Ballona Creek in Culver City, California and at the legendary Venice Amusement Pier in the Venice Beach section of Los Angeles. Ballona Creek has been paved over and is now a concrete flood control channel and the Venice Amusement Pier was torn down in 1946, but there's one part that remains, as we discuss in this month's blog entries.

We wrap up our blog this month with a look at some of the on location scenes from the 1968 episode Battle of Waikiki from the TV series I Dream of Jeannie. Several scenes were filmed at the Ilikai Hotel in Honolulu. The hotel has done some remodeling over the decades but it is still pretty easy to compare then and now filming locations for this episode.

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The blog entries for this month cover the years  1915 (the oldest film I’ve done) through 2007, movies and an infamous TV episode.

The month starts off with a look at the filming locations then and now used in the 1927 Laurel and Hardy movie Putting Pants on Philip. As was the case in the 1920s at the Hal Roach Studios, this film used downtown Culver City, California as a filming location. We get some of our very earliest views of Main Street and the Culver Hotel in this one.

From laughs with Laurel and Hardy we move on to to a mafia killing in the episode Made in America of the TV series The Sopranos. We go on location to Morris Plains, New Jersey to look at the filming location then and now where Phil Leotardo gets whacked.

Then it's back to the west coast for the 1915 Charlie Chaplin comedy movie By The Sea. We look at two filming locations: The Venice Amusement Pier in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles and the Palisades Park just up the coast in Santa Monica.

Finishing up our blog entries for the month is the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie The Sun Down Limited made in 1924. Most of the action takes place in a (then) vacant lot in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles where the gang have built a railroad, complete with locomotive, passenger cars and a caboose! The train jumps the track and the on location filming moves to downtown Culver City as the train careens out of control.

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