PART 1 - Big Wednesday Movie Filming Locations, Etc.
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Finally got my act together to post a video. There will be one or two more parts following this first one.
This shows these locations as they occur in the film:
-The Point
-The Pier
-The Cafe
-Barlow’s House
Hope you enjoy!
Its criminal that Gaviota pier is destroyed and no longer a State public pier and launching facility.
Some politician should reinstate the pier and hoist. Even though if it meant
Reservations only for the hoist.
I grew up on Gaviota beach. Learned to surf between El Cap and Refugio.
Got really good surfing Jalama.
Surfed the Ranch fairly regularly with owners, boaters and walked into
Zoomers and Razors all the time.
Big Wednesday is fantastic surfing movie.
Friends were extras on the Cojo Bixby shoot....
Man thats really really cool you’ve surfed the Ranch. Surfed the area too (obviously never the ranch) for a good stint, in the 80s-South from Ventura to Refugio
and North from Jalama to Avila. Grandparents lived in Shell Beach, 12 years old and started taking pics in the tube with a yellow waterproof 110 Minolta at inside Spyglass. Mowed a lot of lawns to buy that thing. All because of Big Wednesday and seeing video on the big screen from inside the barrel.
That’s all this is, a dedication to a great filmed that inspired. Hoping to give something back to all that love it too.
That's cool I had a Minolta yellow camera too.foid times.thanks for your hard work putting this together@@TheWallygatorca
Awesome!!!! I haven't seen this movie in years, decades. I was in high school in NJ and a Jersey Shore surfer growing up at Midway Beach, South Seaside Park and surfing our beach and the great Casino Pier just 2 miles away when it came out in 1978. This film was a huge part of my youth and people say when it comes to music the "sound track to my youth" but here was a film that was part of the "film track" to my youth along with all those great 70's surf movies like " A Winter's Tale" "Five Summer Stories" 'Pacific Vibrations" etc with all our surf hero's of the time Gerry Lopez, Shaun Tompson, Mark Richards etc ...that we as kids around 10-12-14 would go see at the Seaside Park fire department building each summer where they would show those movies and surfers from all over the area Manasquan, Lavalette, Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant, Belmar etc would come and everyone would get so stoked and just wanting praying our surfer prayers for a hurricane to blast the jersey shore. Big Wednesday came out in 1978 and I was 17 and Union High School north jersey by Newark we had surfers in my HS and we would get in the car in the winter and go to my bungalow in Midway Beach and party and surf casino pier and we would watch this movie at peoples houses and get stoked. I wish I could get a do over and go back in time. Also.....I left Jersey in 1980 (18) and drove to Santa Barbara and surfed the area breaks primarily Rincon and fished on Gaviota Pier and I never even knew it was Gaviota pier in the movie until now. THANKS! I will have to go back and rewatch Big Wednesday.......also it sucks that Gaviota Pier is no longer there. I did not know this until now. I have many memories of fishing it having lived in SB for like 10 years. I have been living with the pain that the great Casino Pier is no longer also due to hurricane Sandy. Unreal that these piers haven't been rebuilt. Where are you cheap skate Bruce Springsteen? I can't believe we can't collect money to rebuild these piers. Also the San Diego pier Ocean Beach is also going to be demolished. I was on that pier also many times as my buddy lived right in the first apartment building right in front of that pier. I used to go San Diego long range albacore fishing and filled the trunk of my Pontiac Gran Prix with albacore and would clean them on that pier before heading back to SB. such a shame piers are disappearing. SAD...SO SAD!
One of the best/thorough filming locations videos I've ever seen.. Good Work !!
Man, humbled by the kind words. Thank you. Glad to give anyone deep diving on this great film a little something extra. Next part asap.
You did a ton of work. Much appreciated. I think you labeled this “part one“… Much looking forward to “part two“
Thank you.
Thank you.
Part 2 will have the following scene locations:
-road to Tijuana
-partying in Tijuana
-Matt causes a car wreck
-Bear’s Surf Shop
I've seen many surfing docs.[Endless Summer ,1 and 2,etc.]and this movie was the best depiction of what it was like to grow up in Southern Ca.-the surfing locations were great!!!
More to come…
That was fantastic and really interesting!
Thank you for putting this together and I will look forward to the next instalment...😊
Thank you! And RIP, JMV. He was one of the greats!
Working on the next part. Bear (Ha!) with me, as I’m a pool man, and not good with this tech stuff. Also, I will most likely polish this one, by editing and re-uploading sometime soon.
Having seen Big Wednesday in the theater 9 times when I was 10 years old, it played a huge influence in my life. Think that I owe something to it, and
hoping that deep diving Big Wednesday fans will get some enjoyment out this.
@@TheWallygatorca Well, I certainly got something from the background information, it was so interesting to watch and, not being from the US myself, great to see what those iconic places from the movie look like these days.
I just love to find anything related to Jan's movies and, just for the record, the editing looks fine to me! 🙂
I'll wait patiently for Part 2 😊
I love all the lines. I’ve memorized most of Big Wednesday. 🤙🏄😊
That Oly can looks like it was a period piece from the movie. Thank you for a very informative and fun video on one of my top two movies which happened to be the movie we used to watch more than any other when my wife and kids and I used to hop in the motor home and take the familiar trip to OceanShores to surf the big 4 foot swells . Hey, what can I say? It was a 200 mile trip that we could do in a weekend compared to Laguna and Newport Beach etc that are a 1200 plus mile road trip for us up here in Washington State. Thanks for the memories Brother
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That’s super cool! 200 mile surf road trip with the family is pretty damn awesome. Their supposed surf trip from Malibu to Tijuana is almost as far. Except TJ is in El Paso, TX. Coming up in the next episode…
Such a sic tribute!!! This movie has always held a special place in my heart. Watched it for the first time with my daughter the other day. 😢 I wish I would have talked to Jan Micheal Vincent when I saw him at Zuma beach. I waved and he waved back
I ran into JMV 3 times.1 time I just got off work with 3 of my buddies working at the Wind & Sea restaurant in Dana Point harbor,1988.
JVC was standing at the end of the bar at Harpoon Henry,s in Dana Point harbor.We could not drink at our own Restaurant.
Anyway we saw JMV drinking sea breezes=Vodka & cranberry juice.A huge bodyguard 6ft 6 300 pds long black hair,big black beard in a Levi jacket who was his blocker=keeping people away from him.We all raised our glasses & shouted:To BIG WEDNESDAY the greatest surf movie-ya we all were surfers.
Then 4 years later when JVC broke his neck drunk-backed into a light pole that fell on top of his car breaking his neck I took a book to the hospital he was in traction-Mission Viejo.The Book:Return from Tommorrow by Dr George Ritchie.A spiritual tome about 1 man's NDE experience,s.
Fast forward 1998 & I was driving city bus for OCTA=THE number 1 route from Long Beach to San Clemente.
I picked up JVC at 2100 near the San Clemente DMV & talked with him.Are you still surfing:JVC-No not since they outlawed drinking at San Onofre on the beach.Do you get any royalties from your movies:JVC-Ya about 100k a year but the IRS takes a big bite out of my ass.He got out near the Red Fox bar in San Clemente.
He looked pretty bad-bloated face,missing a couple teeth.
About a week later he boarded my bus headed toward his buddies house near the DMV limping.I said:What happened.?JVC:I got into a scuffle with a guy at the bar,ran out in flip flops & jumped over a fence because the cops were after me,I bruised my heel.
I think he grew tired of trying to keep his youthful appearance & fighting for roles in B movies that were beneath him.
He just wanted to slip into an alcoholic haze/obscurity.
My favorite JVC movie-TRIBES with Darrin Mcgavin.
The love was for meeting and interacting with JMV, hats off to you.
It’s rough knowing the times he endured through it all.
Have had a good time at the Red Fox on a few occasions. Whoa!… the stories you must have about that PCH drive!
@TheWallygatorca I think when he shattered his heel jumping that fence his FOOT problems started.
The guy had 1 he'll of a good life & made some great movies.
It's sad that as in the movie TRIBES HE NEVER WAS THAT FOCUSED ON HIS ZEN ZONE.
But the Cancer sun sign can be very mercurial & driven for a brilliant career=Elon Musk & Nicola Tesla,if guided by an iron will.
I actually grew up, after 2 army bases,in Laguna beach.
.In 1968 it was a beautiful little artist community with a great mix of people,Timothy Leary & even Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had an ashram there.
The surf band HONK played at the downtown theater-summer of 76 & the surf movie maker Greg Mcgillrey owned a home right on the beach at St Ann's...our go to surf spot.
By the 1990,s investors moved in mostly from the east coast, & the whole vibe changed=not for the better.
I now live in Encinitas its closer to my meditation center & has a similar vibe that Laguna HAD BACK IN THE DAY.
Keep crusher off my coffee table
Haha! Been slammed and no time to edit and put up the next one yet, but it’ll start off right after Crusher walkin’ the dining room table’s nose
@@TheWallygatorca Al la Della Street!!!!
Lived on Hollister ranch, 74-75. Surfed with Jan Michael Vincent , several times. I was 14 years old and would get rights and lefts to myself after school, mid week . 3-4 feet, offshore.
That’s some rarified air!
One of the few, be proud!
🤙
@@TheWallygatorca my stepdad was the foreman of the ranch, and we lived in a house in Bolito canyon, right next to the the house of Colonel Hollister. All the security guards surfed and took me under their wings. I saw the home movies they had made of themselves surfing it as far back as 1960. I got some of the best waves and training there, and was very popular with all my surf buddies in Santa Barbara. I could drive myself to the beach at 13. Later in the late 80s my brother was a gate guard there and I went up a few times. Things had changed a lot, 30 guys out at every spot. I definitely was blessed to get to be there for those two years.
Thanks a lot man this is very interesting review
I was 19 went surfing in La Libertad El Salvador 1977 . While there they were filming for Big Wednesday, one day Jerry Lopez was out ripping and ate it on a wave hit his head on a rock and got stitches . It was cool PT , Jay Riddle , Dan Merkle Bud Brown and others were there filming. Great memories .
In one of the upcoming parts to this, there will be some pics that PT texted when he was invited by the El Salvadorian government to be their guest for the first ever WSL World Tour event. Haha…Jack Barlow returned to Sunzal, the site of “Jack’s Lonesome Ride”
Excellent! 👍😎
Fantastic!!!! 🌊🏖🍷🍷🍷🍷
Well done! Lotta memories! 🤙🏼
Its cool to see all these spots, and it is true that its sad some of them are gone. The amazing thing is that Malibu is basically just like it was back then, and there are new crews of surfers surfing longboards in a classic manner, but with new progression and taking the tradition to a new level. Even though all of this changed (or maybe it was a fantasy) it still remains the same.
Awesome thanks for this
Cool video ,on the way to Tijuana was emma wood in ventura,i believe.i still have a bear hat from the late 80s
Thanks. And yeah they’re Southbound starting at the turn in front Faria Campground and head down towards Emma Wood. It’ll be in next episode. Where Matt causes the wreck is right there too, above Emma Wood.
That was fun. Thanks for putting in the work.
Thank you Steve…more in store.
Thanks, that was really cool!
0:39 "Bixby Ranch, now Hollister Ranch"... I believe it became Jalama Ranch (I've hunted pig there and surfed Governments numerous times)
Haven’t heard it called “Jalama Ranch”. I know the burgers and grub at Jalama Beach Store is tasty though. Maybe the locals call it Jalama Ranch on the North side?
I know at the South gate, the sign says, “The Hollister Ranch” (it’s at around 3:30 here in the vid). I think most of the surfing world knows it as just “The Ranch”, but now you got Slater’s “Ranch” in the mix, and it’s all confused.
You got to surf it though!🤙
I talked to Blinky at the ventura surfshop.Jan Michael Vincent and Blinky were roomates during there college years in ventura
Can only imagine their party stories from back then…
Thats so sad tearing down those houses.i worked as a grip there at W.B.ranch.i have been inside all those houses .didnt know that was the party house for big Wednesday..when does part 2 come out.?
Sorry been slammed busy with pool biz.
I hope to get it edited and up soon. Finding the locations and visiting em was the best. Some I had been to, surfing up and down the coast, but a lot of the places I had to spend a bit of time tracking down. Even flew to El Paso, TX (Tijuana scenes) for a day after I found those. Worth it though, as that was a trip filled with nostalgia.
１３の時ほとんど客のいなかった映画館で見たときと何一つ変わらない
はい、BW は懐かしさがいっぱいです。何度でも観たくなります。繰り返し観るだけです。
Hoping that translates 🤙
that beer can was not one found on the ground unless 1950's
I’m gonna nerd out here…The can is pre-1964. Don’t know exact year, but thought early 60s.
‘64 was the year Olympia switched to pull tabs. No opener required.
I know milus use a Arrilfex for his main camera. But what film stock did he use. Anybody know????
I have the magazine American Cinematographer, the June 1978 edition which features “The Filming Of Big Wednesday”
Mentions all the different cams and lens used with 100 foot and 400 foot rolls of 35mm.
Also, mentioned it was shot in Panavision. Hope that helps.
Incorrect pronunciation on Gaviota and Chumash. Must not be from SoCal. Also....complete bs on ranchers or homeowners living in Hollister Ranch messing with the boat hoist during swells.
Haha! 100% from SoCal.
Grew up inland San Gabriel Valley. Started hitting the ocean a lot from 10 years old around same time seeing Big Wednesday in the theater. Huntington to Mex was the usual go to. Visited and surfed up Central Coast many times, I guess just not enough to know some of the proper pronunciations. At 18, moved South to IB to be as close to Baja as possible to score uncrowded perfection whenever possible.
Still in Diego.
Sabotaging the hoist at Gaviota may be BS as stated, but it doesn’t seem like it’s too far from the truth. I’ve had run ins with locals at Oxnard, Lunada, WindnSea, etc., and I could see their point…We all want good waves without a crowd, if we can get it.