Movie, TV and Music Video Filming Locations Then and Now

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For this Charlie's Angels episode, the production team utilized quite a bit of on-location filming. This first film locations then and now photo comparison showcases the Main Street entrance to the old Adams Hotel in Culver City, California. The view is directed towards Washington Blvd, with 9412 Washington Blvd's "Mark The Carpetbagger" visible in the background. Both of these buildings date back to the earliest days of Culver City and have appeared in numerous movie filming locations then and now, featuring in dozens of films and TV episodes from the 1920s through the late 1980s. 

Unfortunately, everything on the block where the Adams Hotel was located was demolished in the late 1980s. A parking lot took over the entire block until the 2010s when the significant Culver Steps development was constructed. 

The "Mark The Carpetbagger" building at 9412 Washington Blvd has fared much better over the past century. Although the front has undergone extensive remodeling, it remains the same building that appeared in several silent films featuring Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, and many other comedies made in the 1920s, along with several episodes of CHiPs and the 1980s TV series Hunter. 

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A similar view of 9412 Washington Blvd from the Main Street entrance of the Adams Hotel. The top photo is from the 1924 Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie The Sun Down Limited, which features a fascinating exploration of film locations then and now through its video documentary and photo gallery available on this site. 

When this Charlie's Angels episode was filmed in 1979, the front of 9412 Washington Blvd was remarkably similar to how it appeared in 1924, showcasing the movie filming locations then and now. Today, however, most of the front of the building is walled off, contrasting with the open scenes of the past.

In the top photo, across the street is the Washington Blvd side of the Adams Hotel. The view is looking northeast from in front of 9412 Washington Blvd. 

Today, the Culver Steps development occupies the entire block, demonstrating the transformation of film locations then and now. Washington Blvd is now routed one block north onto Culver Blvd as it travels through downtown Culver City, making this filming location quite different looking today than it was in 1979. This shift illustrates the stark contrast of movie filming locations then and now.

Laurel and Hardy meet Charlie's Angels! This is the Culver Blvd side of the Adams Hotel, showcasing film locations then and now as we look west down Culver Blvd, comparing images from 1928 to 1979. The Culver Hotel is visible down the street. Unfortunately, the Adams Hotel, along with the entire block, was demolished in the 1990s, making way for the Culver Steps development that occupies the site today, a testament to the evolution of movie filming locations then and now.

The Washington Blvd side of the Culver Hotel is clearly visible in the top photo. 

Now that the "urban renewal" of the area is complete, this section of Washington Blvd is now part of the pedestrian mall that starts up at Ince Blvd and extends down to the "X" where Washington and Culver Blvd separate again as they head west.

Two features from the earliest days of Culver City are seen in both of these photos. The first is Media Park (the group of trees at top left) and the second - which is the building way in the background - is the old Pacific Electric Railway Ivy sub-station (now home of "The Actor's Gang") at 9070 Venice Blvd. 

If you look closely at the top photo, you can see cars parked in the MIDDLE of Culver Blvd. That parking area used to be the right of way of the Pacific Electric Railway tracks that ran down the middle of Culver Blvd.

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 Wheezer is standing on the Northwest corner of East Temple Street (formerly Turner Street) and Center Street in Los Angeles. The original building built in 1929 remains, though both streets have been widened. 

That's Max Davidson carrying a mannequin in a sack (though the people around him think it's a dead body!) in front of 3830 Main Street in Culver City, California.

The corner of Tabor Street and Motor Avenue, looking north on Motor Avenue.

This is the corner where Wheezer kept stopping traffic by throwing light bulbs into the street. The popping sound caused all the drivers to stop and examine their tires to see if that sound was the tire blowing out!

Van Buren Place where it used to meet Washington Blvd in Culver City, California. The stretch of Washington Blvd along with this block of Van Buren Place have been converted into pedestrian malls.

 The intersection of South Spring Street and West 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. That's 210 West 7th Street, built in 1913 and looking very much the same today. 

Spandau Ballet in the Arab Hall of Leighton House in London, England.