Same here. I would have thought a hangar of that design wouldn't last more than a few decades, let alone 50 years, but it's cool that it's not only still standing but is still in use.
Gey i think that the hangar was used in a James Bond 🎥 i think it was "Live and Let Die" but i might be wrong about which 🎥!!!!!! Does anyone happen to know for sure?
I used to work at Redwood Aviation in the 1980's in Santa Rosa in a hangar built of all redwood. It's the hangar in the background in the distance when looking through the Butler Hangar where the Twin Beech flew through. My boss showed us 8mm movies he took of when Frank Tallman first flew a Stearman through the hangar then after exiting he pulled up and flew kind of a knife edge maneuver to fly between the Eucalyptus trees that lined N. Laughlin Rd. there. After returning to the field he said no problem flying the Beech 18 through.
+MrBuffalo42 .....& Jerry Lewis. I bought this Criterion Collection....( I think a deluxe 5 or 6 DVD version ) set about a year ago. Well-worth owning. So far, I've only actually watched one of the DVDs. With the additional 'lost' footage/stills & sound. The commentary track is EXTREMELY enjoyable. All of the background stuff.
Sleep13 you should watch the cinemassacre video on this topic. The area where the big w was is breathtaking and sold me on a trip to california one day. The ocean, the Cape, the grass is beautiful.
@@VideoReviewChris And so is one of the detectives who went down the hill where "Smiler Grogan' crashed; his name is Nicholas Georgiade, now 85. He also was in The Untouchables tv series. Also living is Barrie Chase ("Sylvester's girlfriend") dancing to the music, she also is now 85. Carl Reiner is the eldest, now almost 97, born on Mar. 20, 1922.
This literally brought tears to my eyes, remembering the actors, the slapstick comedy, the wonderful sound track, and the California that was. I remember seeing this marvelous film when it was released...and being so impressed with California. In the fifties and early sixties, both urban and rural East Coasters looked to California as a shining example of modern development, progress, productivity, and families enjoying prosperity that many of us could only dream of. The public schools were held up as a paragon of education. I once proffered in a college class that California was an exemplar because it was driven by the pioneer spirit among the builders and visionaries who made their homes there. The movie captured the essence of California at that time, and so many thanks are due to criterioncollection for producing this wonderfully executed location comparison vid.
This is what happens to any place where too many people live. This is happening to Phoenix now, as it sprawls out into the native desert. I was shocked to learn that the metropolitan Phoenix area now is LARGER in geographical size than the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. Less people (so far) but taking up more land.
@@ArizonaWillful Good Lord. I was born in Phoenix and an Arizona native, and I didn't even know this. No wonder the metro area has some of the worst pollution in the country. I was wondering why it takes longer to go from my parents' house in Surprise to ASU than it does from their place to my place near Sedona!
You summed that up beautifully and I couldn't agree more with those comments and that's from someone who lives on the other side of the world in chilly 🥶 Scotland.. we grew up with this film and saw it in the cinema in 1963 and always watched it when it came on TV and just roared all the way through it from start to finish, it's just incredibly funny and will always be incredibly funny, so many lines that you just can't forget and keep repeating out loud to each other 🤣 "..do you hear bells baby.....?? " "...yeah... I've been workin' ma... " "..now you all heard what my mamma said...." "..just a little bang...you know.. just like this 💣 (💥) "...this is us up here down to you down there..." 🛩 ✈ "..SYLVESTER..will you just LISTEN TO ME.. !!!! " "..don't worry Ma, everything's gonna be alright, your baby's coming to get you.." 🏋 🚘 Also, weren't things so much nicer in those days in the 60's.. compared with today's images of the same locations, it's sad to see the changes I think... but thanks for your comments they were great to read 👍😊
Even though I'm 54 years old and this movie is older than me. I will always love this movie and it still makes me laugh. Memorable actors at the time. Miss them all.
Saw it for the first time Thanksgiving night in '83. Have loved it ever since. I laughed so hard my face hurt. I love this kind of stuff, what things looked like before I was born and now. Side note I had dinner on Howes lane in Plymouth that night, could see the Mayflower 2 from my seat at dinner!
I saw it when I was a kid - in fact, on the movie screen. I didn’t understand a lot of it, only that a bunch of nuts were racing to find buried treasure. I’m 64 now so that was a very long time ago.😁
I’m part of Gen Z, and yet this movie is better in so many ways than most films made today. I think it’s an essential film for everyone to see because it’s an incredible time capsule of comedy… a stunning display of almost all the comic talents of the early-to-mid 20th century. (If only it had been made a few years earlier; Oliver Hardy would’ve been alive and Stan Laurel wouldn’t have been retired, and then it really would’ve had ‘em all. But I digress.) It is important that we all remember them. And Ernest Gold’s music is among the finest ever composed, instantly transporting you into this zany, wacky, wild world of the voyagers to Santa Rosita. Bravo to everyone involved in making the film; you will never be forgotten.
The stunts were real, not CGI. They went through a lot of cars making this film, there is another video on You Tube about the cars that you might enjoy.
"Thousand Oaks" at 1:54 was Rancho Conejo Airport, at the time between Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park. I went to high school in Newbury Park 64-68, and after classes some afternoons, if I didn't have work, would hike over the hills to sit and watch the airplanes fly in and out of the field. The high point for me was getting to climb the rear ladder and peer into the cockpit of the P-38 used by TallMantz aviation to film some scenes of Von Ryan's Express while was being refueled between takes. It's all very different there now.
There used to be airports all over Southern California, especially after WWII. Nearly all of them were wiped away by development for homes, malls, etc with a precious few left.
California Looked dryer and hotter in the 1960s even though California is a beautiful state it's something about the way it looked in the 60s that makes me wish it still looked like that today
It was much more open and arid. There is much more irrigation now taking water from the farmers for grassy lawns instead of using for green veggies and fruit.
@@glynnevans1851 Hi Glynn. Thanks for the reply. Living in Southern California (Burbank, located in the San Fernando Valley) I was familiar with alot of the location shots. Things have certainly changed around here since 1962. Now retired and living in Palm Springs. I've discovered some of the location shots down here too. Once again, thanks for the reply. It's great to have a fan who appreciates this wonderful movie like me. Take care... Bob
@@spiff8862 Wow Robert. Like you I first saw this film very young I was born in 1960 .I also liked Way out West with Laurel and hardy also I luved Lucile Ball and Sargent Bilko. Many thanks for your reply. Kind regards Glynn
@@CD-oq8em Jonathan Winters (along with the lower-rated "actress" Ethel Merman) stole almost every scene they were in. She was mostly a nightclub singer, but she ran rings around many of the other, more established comics with her hilarious performance as the ultimate "mother-in-law" that comics used to make many jokes about, and in this case, she personified it to perfection! Love her more and more as Mrs. Marcus as the years go by. "Then sit, Emeline!"
Buy all the land, sell all the land in the smallest pieces you can for as much as you can, build on all the land, sell all the buildings, and when the money is gone - move on to where there is more unspoiled land to ravage and abandon.
Wow! This is incredible! I've never seen anything like this before. And even the camera angles were exact. The desert locations really helped a lot of it still look pretty close to the way it was, but poor Palos Verdes Estates...
gym shoe Are you aware that you are not just thinking this in your head, but actually typing and posting this racist post? We can see what you are thinking. You are essentially claiming that the problems in California are caused by African Americans and Mexican Americans. You seem to think that this movie shows the demographics of Southern California as it was in the early 1960’s. This movie was made just a few years before parts of LA experienced violence and rioting, just like most inner cities and poorer neighborhoods in those cities experienced in the 1960’s. And just look at the names of the vast majority of the cities. They aren’t English names, but Spanish. Are you even aware that California was once part of Mexico? Many of those Mexicans never left their homes due to the US’s war of conquest, and have been part of the population from before the US conquered what is now the Southwest part of the United States. Our ANCESTORS were the “invaders”, not the Mexicans. Well, at least you’re openly honest about your bigotry. Perhaps you should learn WHY the US conquered this land. Aggressive slaveowners wanted to acquire more territory into which to expand slavery. That’s why then Congressman Abraham Lincoln voted AGAINST declaring war on Mexico.
@@johncronin9540 John, climb down from your soap box. The man posted what he feels. He did nothing wrong. I bet you get offended by the wind blowing from the wrong direction. Bite a rag, will you?
That was spectacular! I was expecting some deep divides between "then" and "now," but also surprised at a few locations which nearly looked untouched. Wonderful glimpse of the movie locations. Can't say enough good. Thank you!
Some directors still get an insane amount of name-actors, who will work for less, for scale or even for free - due to the fact that those filmmakers have great stories and make great films.
TheDBCooperforum, None of the celebrities today could hold a candle to Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Spencer Tracy, Terry Thomas, Buddy Hackett, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, Ethel Merman, or Sid Caesar! None of them! The ones today are mere shells of what used to be great talented people, who had class as well as talent. I don't see any of the so-called "great" ones today in any league with these outstanding actors and comedians!
@@freeguy77 These actors/Actresses and their individual personalities/mannerisms, etc are what made this movie so funny. Jim Backus used his millionaire schtick and "Dear ol' Dad" right into Gilligan's Island. Many of them were using the "branded" personalities that they had developed. Even the cameos...Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny, The guy who played the Col. talking them down. Too bad a place for Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra couldn;t be found.NO...NO group of "comedians" could even think about re-making this movie.
I found myself with tears in my eyes at several points.... I remember seeing this movie on T.V. when I was VERY young....it may have been the first time it was aired on TV....it definitely was WAY before the days VCR's and videotapes.... My parents and siblings were visiting my aunt and uncle and we were all in the living room of the house that my father had grown up in. My father and mother, my aunt and uncle are all passed away now... There was definite change, but a lot of recognizable landmarks. Kind of like life in general. There are many things and people in my life that are gone but some 'landmarks' remain.
@@Jay-vr9ir Back in the 50's and 60's even into the 70's wasn't a bad place. then they started building more and more apartment complex's in the Valley and ruined it for everyone.
Living in SoCal, I never realized how many of these locations I've driven by on a daily basis. It's sad how used to the landscape I've become. Perhaps that's because the SoCal of yesteryear just seemed a bit more charming and put-together (the Long Beach police station...replaced by a WALGREENS?!).
@@jerryshunk7152 Taking money out of the budget so cops can focus on violent crime instead of settling disputes between married couples is not defunding, it is allocating resources better. A cop was never meant to be a marriage counselor or do other psychological work.
One of the best movies of all times. My dad worked with just about everybody in that movie at one time or another. He had some great stories about Jimmy Durante. Those were cool times.
Ruslan Volkonsky Those were planted just for the movie and were not well placed. Only a few years after the movie was released all but one were left, which manage to stay in place (the last one from the left). About 10 or 12 years ago they had to cut the remaining one.
@@SamSpade2010 all of the rocky desert was open, but the other places have been built up. 40M people, their cars and the stuff needed to support them will do that.
All the main cast are gone now, only 2 still living that had bit parts in the movie. Sadly, in this world everything changes and none of those actors could ever be replaced. Those were great times and now just left with our fond memories.
Perce, there were 3 before Carl Reiner died on June 29, 2020. The other 2 are Barrie Chase (Sylvester's dancing girlfriend), now 86, and Detective Nicholas Georgiade (after Smiler Grogan's death, talking to Norman Fell),, now 87. Everybody else in the film (that I am aware of) are now playing their harp in heaven.
I love this video...I can't wait to show it to my grandfather who's 84 this year. This is his and my families favourite movie to watch together!! I'm only 28 but as a little girl wouldn't have much choice but to watch what he wanted to watch. As I got older and understood what the movie was shout and fell in love with it...
A few of the scenes look almost the same as it was when filmed between April and Dec. 1962. Many others have completely changed so as not be recognizable, as is the "Big W" palm tree. Almost the same as it was: the road where Pike turns off to sneak up on the others, where the group was arguing over how to split up the money, where the cars make that wild left turn at Palm Springs, where the miner waved to get a car to stop,, the airport arrow sign (and left turn) where Sid Caesar (Melville Crump) rented the airplane at Twentynine Palms, , the old 1918 bi-plane taking off, at Yucca Valley where J. Algernon Hawthorne (Terry-Thomas) and Russell Finch (Milton Berle) stop to have a Coca-Cola (made with real sugar!), the truck barreling out of the tunnel at Santa Clarita before it turns over, where the airplane carrying Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett) and Ding Bell (Mickey Rooney) flies through the low hangar, where Capt. T.G. Culpepper (Spencer Tracy) radios for everyone else to "pull away" at Santa Monica, where Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) rams his car into a pole at the state park at San Pedro, and finally, memorably, the steps at the back entrance of the building where they trap Culpepper, before they lose all the money, at Long Beach. A wonderful menagerie of fantastic scenery in where it used to be the great dream of almost everyone then: enjoy the great climate and make your fortune in sunny, optimistic California! That was then, but now more people are leaving it than ever before.
I'm telling you, come to Oahu, there's a Huge W just like in the movie on a golf course here. I don't golf so,..... I bet u could find it easy."hey google, big W on Oahu golf course, like it's a mad mad mad mad mad world" yup u can find it. y'all have a Beautiful day,& a memorable night
I recognized one of the Long Beach locations as Ocean Bl and the car was going down from Ocean on a street that led to the old Pike. Of course, the Pike is no longer there in it's original form.A couple of the other shots had to be on Long Beach Bl, because you can see the Metro Blue Line tracks in the updated pics.Most, if not all of the Long Beach scenes were shot Downtown. It really hasn't changed all that much over the years. I also recognized Shoreline Drive, that's where they built The New Pike, but it is nothing like the original. A huge ferris wheel and a bunch of restaurants and shopping area. Loved seeing all the other familiar locations, as well!
What a wonderful job finding & filming all the movie locations! This was the first film ever shown at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. You solved a debate with a friend who grew up in LA & claimed the BIG W trees were in Santa Monica but I told him it was in PV. Great job & perfect soundtrack...thanks for the memories!
I live in Yucca Valley and one scene filmed right at the intersection of 29 Palms Hwy. and Acoma which I drive often. Thanks for the great job with all these locations. Amazing work on your part.
I've lived in Thousand Oaks since 1962 and the Rancho Conejo Airport, where some of the flying scenes were filmed, was built by local developer Janss Corp., for the purpose of attracting large corporations to the area. A large industrial park was under construction beginning in the late '50s, and they were able to get companies such as Northrop and Westinghouse to move there when the space race was in full swing. By 1967, the airport had been closed, but the runway remained for many years before they tore it up to prevent illegal use. It does have a sad chapter to its history. In 1978, a California Air National Guard F-105G Thunderchief, s/n 63-8321, crashed just north of the runway, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the crewman who was able to eject. The depression left by the crash is still visible on the hillside. The accepted theory is that the pilot came out of the clouds and tried to make what was left of the runway, which had been closed for a decade by then. Another 1/4-mile to the west, and he'd have crashed into the industrial park.
That movie was made about the time we arrived in Southern California (I was 5). I feel so fortunate to have grown up there. Yup, that's what it felt like. Way too overpopulated now so I don't live there anymore. I haven't seen that flick since I was a kid... I should check it out.
The actress (Madlyn Rhue) that played secretary Schwartz at the police station had an interesting career. She got quite a bit of screen time in this film considering how long it is and how many stars were cast or made cameo appearances. She played the Enterprise officer who fell in love with and conspired with Ricardo Montalban's character (Khan) in the original Star Trek series. She was considered to play that role again in the Wrath of Khan but that character was written out. May have had to do with her MS, but in retrospect I can't see what her character would have added to the movie. Her (as Lieutenant McGiver) death was actually a prime motivation behind Khan's hatred of Captain Kirk. But, it would have been an interesting little onscreen reunion. She also played a love interest of a Montalban character in a Bonanza episode.
Fun ti see and at the same time, makes me emotional . Such great people all gone . Never to see such a thing again . . And Now, I’m the old guy! Hahahahaha
Bravo!! Thank you for whoever put this together. I love the music. I wish we could go back to those times...if only for a week. Things were so much simpler back then.
My friend and I went searching for the Big W (the Holy Grail for all of us). When we found it, it still had 3 trees left. I managed to take a couple of pictures with an old "instamatic" camera (if you remember those, you are old...like me!).
mca1218 Sure. You'll find one of the pix I shot in the 70's of the 3 trees still standing on my website: www.mgmbacklot2.com (on the last page) - it was the middle right tree that died first and was missing at the time I saw it, but the other 3 palm trees still looked healthy. It is an interesting shot because when I knocked on the door of the estate, the person living there at the time was mad: "I'm sick of everyone wanting to see The Big W. Go away. You can't come in." ( I understand that the subsequent owner was much more appreciative of what they had in their backyard!) So I climbed the hill on the other side of the highway and snapped some pictures over the roof of the house and into the backyard. At the time I thought "Too bad I couldn't get inside," but now I like it because it shows the layout of the whole location.
Cyclone Productions Thank you immensely. That's an awesome photo. I have loved this film for 40 years, and have only seen this 'Holy Grail' in two images: fully assembled and in the 1991 documentary when only one tree was left. Knowing they're all gone now, even if I had a chance to go to the owner's estate and actually view their backyard, I would probably become very depressed. Anyway, I have forever burned in my memory seeing the film in a theater in 1993 for its 30th anniversary, and that whole sequence still packed a punch; there were many people in the audience whispering even then, "I wonder if that's real, I'd like to see where that is." ("You go the way we came, and we'll go...")
Thanks for the upload! I first saw this great movie on Jan 1, 1988 on WPIX-11, exactly thirty years ago! It's amazing how some areas have changed so much and yet some have remained virtually unchanged since 1963.
Biggest discrepancy between 1963 & the present ? 1963- A ton of comedic personalities with which to make a giant ensemble cast of an over-the-top piece of cinematic history. 2020- A whole generation that mistook Will Farrell as a legit comic presence a decade ago & nothing worth commenting on since. Sad shit, really...😥 Edit: One GLARING exception- The Office. My fault, sorry !! 😎
You could most certainly remake this movie with a lot for really funny comedians and personalities... it's just that the MOVIES have gone way downhill since then. I wonder why they didn't have Buster Keaton AND Harold Lloyd in the film? The would have made a great comic duo for a scene... one brooding and dour, the other bright and goofy.
@@ArizonaWillful Jerry Lewis perfected the kind of comedian Will Ferrell is... outlandish, bigger than life, childlike, slapstick. Millennials are going to save this country from the wreckage of what the Boomers handed them... an infantile president, do nothing ancient senators, and a society that bitches about wearing a mask.
The gasp I let out seeing Thousand Oaks and Agoura Hills pop up! Especially the Agoura Hills locations, those had me pointing at the screen like “I know where that is!!!”
There were a few - very few - images in the 'now' which look remarkably similar. One of the best, is the overhang (looks like a list little porte-cochere; a carriage porch) by the faux-white stone (It is fake, isn't it?) in the shot of Ethel Merman on the phone with Terry-Thomas and Milton Berle walking around? The only apparent difference is the roof was painted a green (the phone booth Ms. Merman was in was a prop, so, I'm not counting it), but, all of it looks really well preserved!
This is my favorite movie of all time! Last watched Jan 21, 2017. I was wondering how the landscape filmed in those days looks today and then this video showed up!! Thank you!!
California looked so much less crowded in the early 60s....a nicer place to live, it's a shame..... Mom and Dad were living in Long Beach in these years, Dad was in the Navy, I was very young. There's an old Eagles song goes, when people find paradise, they move there and ruin it.
Phil M “The Last Resort”, off Hotel California. The final two lines of the song are “They called it paradise, I don’t know why. You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”.
I'm glad I was able to see this (thanks, Paul, for sending me the link, and Dave for commenting!)...this particular movie I've always considered my "introduction" to Hollywood and the movies. Amazingly, quite a few of the locations haven't changed all that much! Saddest was seeing what was left of the "Big W." Looking forward to this!
this was marvelous. Good job! I really did enjoy this and it brought back memories because I was 12 years old when this movie was released. I lived in Southern California and I remember all these places. Thank you to whomever created this. I'd like to see more comparisons like this.
Seaman, don't be a downer. There was never a time which was good for everyone and it's wishful thinking there could be. I imagine everyone has times they can look back upon with fondness yet it is certain that many others were suffering at that same time. Life is good...it's how you look at it.
We almost had a nuclear war as this movie was being filmed in 1962 (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and the president of the US was assassinated two weeks after it premiered in November of '63.
Did anyone else notice how much greener everything seems now. Even what appears to be remote desert areas seem to have a lot of green brush growing where, back when the movie was made, there was just sand and rocks.
This is awesome!!! Always wanted to go this with some of my favorite movies. What a surprise to see some locations with very little change and others unrecognizable. Thanks for sharing your detective work.
1963 California... purchased my first home for $16,000! 1/2 mile from the ocean too. I was sweating bullets to pay the $85 a month mortgage payment LOL!
This is fantastic & thanks for update that beings to mind each scene in the greatest comedy movie ever to this date still, May 2024!!! Indeed, Cheers to all IAMMMMMMW fans!!
Absolutely awesome video, so perfectly some and I can watch this movie over and over again😃😂😂😂thank you so much for sharing this, it brings back such great memories, also back in the good old days for me. Awesome, talented actors and actresses and I loved them all
I think every single location looked nicer in 1963 than it does today.
Could not agree more
Those were the days.....
That nasty wall across from where the service station was is an eye sore for sure....
Wrong
I noticed that too
I was pleasantly surprised to see the "fly through" hangar just as it was.
Same here. I would have thought a hangar of that design wouldn't last more than a few decades, let alone 50 years, but it's cool that it's not only still standing but is still in use.
Nowadays they'd have cgi'd that stunt and turned a "hold your breath" moment into a "that's interesting... I guess" one.
@@rsrt6910 And both Tallman and Mantz, the stunt flyers for the movie, died in plane crashes.
Gey i think that the hangar was used in a James Bond 🎥 i think it was "Live and Let Die" but i might be wrong about which 🎥!!!!!! Does anyone happen to know for sure?
I used to work at Redwood Aviation in the 1980's in Santa Rosa in a hangar built of all redwood.
It's the hangar in the background in the distance when looking through the Butler Hangar where the Twin Beech flew through.
My boss showed us 8mm movies he took of when Frank Tallman first flew a Stearman through the hangar then after exiting he pulled up and flew kind of a knife edge maneuver to fly between the Eucalyptus trees that lined N. Laughlin Rd. there.
After returning to the field he said no problem flying the Beech 18 through.
The stump where the big W was is rather sad
Everything dies. Seeing the cast members fade away was also very sad.
At least the rocks haven't changed.
+videoreviewchris Marvin Kaplan is still alive 1 of the gas station attendents with Arnold Stang
+MrBuffalo42 .....& Jerry Lewis. I bought this Criterion Collection....( I think a deluxe 5 or 6 DVD version ) set about a year ago. Well-worth owning. So far, I've only actually watched one of the DVDs. With the additional 'lost' footage/stills & sound. The commentary track is EXTREMELY enjoyable. All of the background stuff.
Sleep13 you should watch the cinemassacre video on this topic. The area where the big w was is breathtaking and sold me on a trip to california one day. The ocean, the Cape, the grass is beautiful.
@@VideoReviewChris And so is one of the detectives who went down the hill where "Smiler Grogan' crashed; his name is Nicholas Georgiade, now 85. He also was in The Untouchables tv series. Also living is Barrie Chase ("Sylvester's girlfriend") dancing to the music, she also is now 85. Carl Reiner is the eldest, now almost 97, born on Mar. 20, 1922.
This literally brought tears to my eyes, remembering the actors, the slapstick comedy, the wonderful sound track, and the California that was. I remember seeing this marvelous film when it was released...and being so impressed with California. In the fifties and early sixties, both urban and rural East Coasters looked to California as a shining example of modern development, progress, productivity, and families enjoying prosperity that many of us could only dream of. The public schools were held up as a paragon of education. I once proffered in a college class that California was an exemplar because it was driven by the pioneer spirit among the builders and visionaries who made their homes there. The movie captured the essence of California at that time, and so many thanks are due to criterioncollection for producing this wonderfully executed location comparison vid.
This is what happens to any place where too many people live. This is happening to Phoenix now, as it sprawls out into the native desert. I was shocked to learn that the metropolitan Phoenix area now is LARGER in geographical size than the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. Less people (so far) but taking up more land.
@@ArizonaWillful Good Lord. I was born in Phoenix and an Arizona native, and I didn't even know this. No wonder the metro area has some of the worst pollution in the country. I was wondering why it takes longer to go from my parents' house in Surprise to ASU than it does from their place to my place near Sedona!
You summed that up beautifully and I couldn't agree more with those comments and that's from someone who lives on the other side of the world in chilly 🥶 Scotland.. we grew up with this film and saw it in the cinema in 1963 and always watched it when it came on TV and just roared all the way through it from start to finish, it's just incredibly funny and will always be incredibly funny, so many lines that you just can't forget and keep repeating out loud to each other 🤣
"..do you hear bells baby.....?? "
"...yeah... I've been workin' ma... "
"..now you all heard what my mamma said...."
"..just a little bang...you know.. just like this 💣 (💥)
"...this is us up here down to you down there..." 🛩 ✈
"..SYLVESTER..will you just LISTEN TO ME.. !!!! "
"..don't worry Ma, everything's gonna be alright, your baby's coming to get you.." 🏋 🚘
Also, weren't things so much nicer in those days in the 60's.. compared with today's images of the same locations, it's sad to see the changes I think... but thanks for your comments they were great to read 👍😊
So freaking funny
Even though I'm 54 years old and this movie is older than me. I will always love this movie and it still makes me laugh. Memorable actors at the time. Miss them all.
Glad to see I'm not the only one obsessed over this great old film. Saw it for the first time in July. Watched it 3 times so far. unbelievable
Saw it for the first time Thanksgiving night in '83. Have loved it ever since. I laughed so hard my face hurt. I love this kind of stuff, what things looked like before I was born and now. Side note I had dinner on Howes lane in Plymouth that night, could see the Mayflower 2 from my seat at dinner!
my dvd of the movie has worn out. i thought only vhs tapes did that
david wood I find that happens when your kids use it as a Frisbee
I saw it when I was a kid - in fact, on the movie screen. I didn’t understand a lot of it, only that a bunch of nuts were racing to find buried treasure. I’m 64 now so that was a very long time ago.😁
Mom said this was the first movie they ever took me to. I had just turned 3 when this movie debuted.
I’m part of Gen Z, and yet this movie is better in so many ways than most films made today. I think it’s an essential film for everyone to see because it’s an incredible time capsule of comedy… a stunning display of almost all the comic talents of the early-to-mid 20th century. (If only it had been made a few years earlier; Oliver Hardy would’ve been alive and Stan Laurel wouldn’t have been retired, and then it really would’ve had ‘em all. But I digress.) It is important that we all remember them. And Ernest Gold’s music is among the finest ever composed, instantly transporting you into this zany, wacky, wild world of the voyagers to Santa Rosita. Bravo to everyone involved in making the film; you will never be forgotten.
Your comment is amazing and wonderful
Cast....director....crew....music...writing....this film is a masterpiece!
Great insight.
The stunts were real, not CGI. They went through a lot of cars making this film, there is another video on You Tube about the cars that you might enjoy.
"Thousand Oaks" at 1:54 was Rancho Conejo Airport, at the time between Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park. I went to high school in Newbury Park 64-68, and after classes some afternoons, if I didn't have work, would hike over the hills to sit and watch the airplanes fly in and out of the field.
The high point for me was getting to climb the rear ladder and peer into the cockpit of the P-38 used by TallMantz aviation to film some scenes of Von Ryan's Express while was being refueled between takes. It's all very different there now.
There used to be airports all over Southern California, especially after WWII. Nearly all of them were wiped away by development for homes, malls, etc with a precious few left.
The cars and trucks in the movie were way cooler than the ones today The fins on those taxis were awesome.
@Herbert Norkus That convertible red Dodge Dart 440 that Dick Shawn drove was sexy!
California Looked dryer and hotter in the 1960s
even though California is a beautiful state it's something about the way it looked in the 60s that makes me wish it still looked like that today
It was much more open and arid. There is much more irrigation now taking water from the farmers for grassy lawns instead of using for green veggies and fruit.
@@robgrt Open where? Around LA or the locations for the film or the whole state? CA always looks arid to me below SF.
Thousand oaks Agoura road in Calabasas
Forsooth, it was not then overrun by lunatic liberals.
I feel the same way about Florida.
One of the greatest movies of all time, & THE greatest comedy of all time!
Loved it as a kid, still love it now.
I agree! Loved it the age of eleven when I saw it for the first time. Still love it today at the age of sixty-seven!
@@spiff8862 hi Robert. Like wise n my favourite in the film is Phil Silver's..Kind regards Glynn n Greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands
@@glynnevans1851
Hi Glynn. Thanks for the reply.
Living in Southern California (Burbank, located in the San Fernando Valley) I was familiar with alot of the location shots.
Things have certainly changed around here since 1962.
Now retired and living in Palm Springs.
I've discovered some of the location shots down here too.
Once again, thanks for the reply.
It's great to have a fan who appreciates this wonderful movie like me.
Take care...
Bob
@@spiff8862 Wow Robert. Like you I first saw this film very young I was born in 1960 .I also liked Way out West with Laurel and hardy also I luved Lucile Ball and Sargent Bilko. Many thanks for your reply. Kind regards Glynn
"I'm with some truck driver in a place called Plaster City - and will you shut up and listen so I can tell you what happened?!"
Lucile Ball's delivery was perfect in that line
So did Ethel Merman!
@@TheChatterbox1991 Lucille Ball might have delivered that line perfectly, but she wasn't in this film. This is Ethel Merman.
Sylvest-er !
@@TheChatterbox1991 LOL. How in the world could you confuse Lucille Ball with Ethel Merman?
One thing you can say: everything is decidedly greener and with more trees.
Watering will do that.
My favorite all time comedy movie.
"He just went sailing right out there!"
No matter how you work it out... I still dont get as much as anybody else!
Who's flying the plane? Nobody's flying the plane!
I think he had an aunt named "aunt bell"
@@CD-oq8em Jonathan Winters (along with the lower-rated "actress" Ethel Merman) stole almost every scene they were in. She was mostly a nightclub singer, but she ran rings around many of the other, more established comics with her hilarious performance as the ultimate "mother-in-law" that comics used to make many jokes about, and in this case, she personified it to perfection! Love her more and more as Mrs. Marcus as the years go by. "Then sit, Emeline!"
The less denser California clearly much nicer than the mess today.
Over development is a problem all over the country. There's thousands of empty houses that the homeless could live in that are going to waste.
Buy all the land, sell all the land in the smallest pieces you can for as much as you can, build on all the land, sell all the buildings, and when the money is gone - move on to where there is more unspoiled land to ravage and abandon.
All thats left of the big w is just one little stump. Sad.
Yeah James Rofle (AVGN) found it.
The stump is gone now. Nothing remains of the Big W.
That's the "Big dubb-eua."
@RadRich Nah, you might want to look up the definition of "random", Mr Millenial.
@RadRich A very crude and rude Boomer.
Wow! This is incredible! I've never seen anything like this before. And even the camera angles were exact. The desert locations really helped a lot of it still look pretty close to the way it was, but poor Palos Verdes Estates...
Thank you, John, that means a lot!!
gym shoe Are you aware that you are not just thinking this in your head, but actually typing and posting this racist post? We can see what you are thinking. You are essentially claiming that the problems in California are caused by African Americans and Mexican Americans. You seem to think that this movie shows the demographics of Southern California as it was in the early 1960’s. This movie was made just a few years before parts of LA experienced violence and rioting, just like most inner cities and poorer neighborhoods in those cities experienced in the 1960’s.
And just look at the names of the vast majority of the cities. They aren’t English names, but Spanish. Are you even aware that California was once part of Mexico? Many of those Mexicans never left their homes due to the US’s war of conquest, and have been part of the population from before the US conquered what is now the Southwest part of the United States. Our ANCESTORS were the “invaders”, not the Mexicans.
Well, at least you’re openly honest about your bigotry. Perhaps you should learn WHY the US conquered this land. Aggressive slaveowners wanted to acquire more territory into which to expand slavery. That’s why then Congressman Abraham Lincoln voted AGAINST declaring war on Mexico.
Paul Scrabo Yes, this was very well done. And the music was a perfect choice.
@@johncronin9540 John, climb down from your soap box. The man posted what he feels. He did nothing wrong. I bet you get offended by the wind blowing from the wrong direction. Bite a rag, will you?
@@johncronin9540 I'm interested in what you think might have caused the social demise he is referring to.
That was spectacular! I was expecting some deep divides between "then" and "now," but also surprised at a few locations which nearly looked untouched. Wonderful glimpse of the movie locations. Can't say enough good. Thank you!
Imagine what it would cost to pay so many celebrities today vs the amount celebrities in this film.
Some directors still get an insane amount of name-actors, who will work for less, for scale or even for free - due to the fact that those filmmakers have great stories and make great films.
These people were more than "celebrities" they were STARS
The Expendables is kind of a modern, action version. Haven't actually seen it but that seems to be the draw.
TheDBCooperforum, None of the celebrities today could hold a candle to Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Spencer Tracy, Terry Thomas, Buddy Hackett, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Lewis, Dick Shawn, Ethel Merman, or Sid Caesar! None of them! The ones today are mere shells of what used to be great talented people, who had class as well as talent. I don't see any of the so-called "great" ones today in any league with these outstanding actors and comedians!
@@freeguy77 These actors/Actresses and their individual personalities/mannerisms, etc are what made this movie so funny. Jim Backus used his millionaire schtick and "Dear ol' Dad" right into Gilligan's Island.
Many of them were using the "branded" personalities that they had developed. Even the cameos...Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny, The guy who played the Col. talking them down. Too bad a place for Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra couldn;t be found.NO...NO group of "comedians" could even think about re-making this movie.
WOW. One of my very favorite movies of all time. You did an amazing job. Brings back fond memories. Thanks!
I completely agree with you. One of my very favorite movies. Great work to create this video.
Thank you!!
Can remember my family staying in the motel on left at 3:16 in the late sixties visiting the old Pike.
I found myself with tears in my eyes at several points....
I remember seeing this movie on T.V. when I was VERY young....it may have been the first time it was aired on TV....it definitely was WAY before the days VCR's and videotapes....
My parents and siblings were visiting my aunt and uncle and we were all in the living room of the house that my father had grown up in.
My father and mother, my aunt and uncle are all passed away now...
There was definite change, but a lot of recognizable landmarks. Kind of like life in general. There are many things and people in my life that are gone but some 'landmarks' remain.
My dad was working in Long Beach at the time of the filming and said it was quite a spectacle, drawing lots of curious people watching all the action.
Wow, I thought everything would have changed allot, but many of the old buildings and sites are still there. Very cool.
great job to me everything looked better in the 60s than today.
The California I knew is long gone
I wish I would have visited it back then , I saw it in the aftermath of The Rodney King Riots .
@museack Nothing left for me there, most of my friends moved to other states.
@@Jay-vr9ir Back in the 50's and 60's even into the 70's wasn't a bad place. then they started building more and more apartment complex's in the Valley and ruined it for everyone.
Same with everywhere else in our country my friend. I try to notice the places that haven't changed much.
@@rfpcs1 Let me guess. You live in a place that has been inhabited for all of human history.
Living in SoCal, I never realized how many of these locations I've driven by on a daily basis. It's sad how used to the landscape I've become. Perhaps that's because the SoCal of yesteryear just seemed a bit more charming and put-together (the Long Beach police station...replaced by a WALGREENS?!).
They got defunded bro!
At the time that they shot the movie that police station was actually a YMCA
@@jerryshunk7152 Taking money out of the budget so cops can focus on violent crime instead of settling disputes between married couples is not defunding, it is allocating resources better. A cop was never meant to be a marriage counselor or do other psychological work.
@@ArizonaWillful Thanks for being the one to respond to the usual clueless jerkoff so I didn't have to.
It was the landscape of what was "the simple life", making do with what was and not knowing what they were missing because it didn't exist. 👍🏼😉
One of the best movies of all times. My dad worked with just about everybody in that movie at one time or another. He had some great stories about Jimmy Durante. Those were cool times.
Oh they chopped off the Big W!!!!! That is so sad!
Ruslan Volkonsky Those were planted just for the movie and were not well placed. Only a few years after the movie was released all but one were left, which manage to stay in place (the last one from the left). About 10 or 12 years ago they had to cut the remaining one.
+ricarleite still sad
+Ruslan Volkonsky Yeah, too bad the big W couldn't stay
+Ruslan Volkonsky yes. years ago. the owners said they will replant them some day.
The property got bulldozed over about a year ago. Its being redevloped . Yes it was ALL so much nicer 50+ years ago.
Wow talk about overbuilding..I liked it better with the wide open spaces.
All of those small businesses that are no more, too......
The 25 million extra people (that 1.6x the 1960 population) need somewhere to live.
Me too.
You watch a different video? Practically every open space they showed is still open space.
@@SamSpade2010 all of the rocky desert was open, but the other places have been built up. 40M people, their cars and the stuff needed to support them will do that.
All the main cast are gone now, only 2 still living that had bit parts in the movie.
Sadly, in this world everything changes and none of those actors could ever be replaced.
Those were great times and now just left with our fond memories.
Perce, there were 3 before Carl Reiner died on June 29, 2020. The other 2 are Barrie Chase (Sylvester's dancing girlfriend), now 86, and Detective Nicholas Georgiade (after Smiler Grogan's death, talking to Norman Fell),, now 87. Everybody else in the film (that I am aware of) are now playing their harp in heaven.
I love this video...I can't wait to show it to my grandfather who's 84 this year. This is his and my families favourite movie to watch together!! I'm only 28 but as a little girl wouldn't have much choice but to watch what he wanted to watch. As I got older and understood what the movie was shout and fell in love with it...
Love the musical score by Ernest Gold!
Thanks for this, awesome! Ain't progress a bitch. Most of those places looked way better back then! Wish I had a time machine..
Why don't you just move to rural Arkansas. Much of the Deep South is just as run down.
A few of the scenes look almost the same as it was when filmed between April and Dec. 1962. Many others have completely changed so as not be recognizable, as is the "Big W" palm tree. Almost the same as it was: the road where Pike turns off to sneak up on the others, where the group was arguing over how to split up the money, where the cars make that wild left turn at Palm Springs, where the miner waved to get a car to stop,, the airport arrow sign (and left turn) where Sid Caesar (Melville Crump) rented the airplane at Twentynine Palms, , the old 1918 bi-plane taking off, at Yucca Valley where J. Algernon Hawthorne (Terry-Thomas) and Russell Finch (Milton Berle) stop to have a Coca-Cola (made with real sugar!), the truck barreling out of the tunnel at Santa Clarita before it turns over, where the airplane carrying Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett) and Ding Bell (Mickey Rooney) flies through the low hangar, where Capt. T.G. Culpepper (Spencer Tracy) radios for everyone else to "pull away" at Santa Monica, where Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) rams his car into a pole at the state park at San Pedro, and finally, memorably, the steps at the back entrance of the building where they trap Culpepper, before they lose all the money, at Long Beach. A wonderful menagerie of fantastic scenery in where it used to be the great dream of almost everyone then: enjoy the great climate and make your fortune in sunny, optimistic California! That was then, but now more people are leaving it than ever before.
I wish things still looked as simple as the 60s
That's really sad. At 2:42...a single cut-down palm tree stump is all that remains from this great movie. :(
I thought the same thing as for a second I was hoping that they had preserved that on.
Charles Francis I know I thought they'd preserve it. I watched this with my grandparents all the time. Kinda sad to watch but awesome
I'm telling you, come to Oahu, there's a Huge W just like in the movie on a golf course here. I don't golf so,..... I bet u could find it easy."hey google, big W on Oahu golf course, like it's a mad mad mad mad mad world" yup u can find it. y'all have a Beautiful day,& a memorable night
I haven't seen the movie in many years but this production does a very meticulous job of finding all these places.
And they call it progress! I will take the 1960’s version any day!
I recognized one of the Long Beach locations as Ocean Bl and the car was going down from Ocean on a street that led to the old Pike. Of course, the Pike is no longer there in it's original form.A couple of the other shots had to be on Long Beach Bl, because you can see the Metro Blue Line tracks in the updated pics.Most, if not all of the Long Beach scenes were shot Downtown. It really hasn't changed all that much over the years. I also recognized Shoreline Drive, that's where they built The New Pike, but it is nothing like the original. A huge ferris wheel and a bunch of restaurants and shopping area. Loved seeing all the other familiar locations, as well!
That man in the white hat directing Spencer Tracy's car in the right direction was Buster Keaton. Silent movie actor.
Ah yes, Buster Keaton. A man who could say more with actions than most people can say with any number of words!
Mary do you know the address of park or the building where the money falls all over???
My family stayed several times at the motel at 3:17. That Cyclone Racer at the Pike was a blast.
Great job on the video!!! The soundtrack also added a lot, brought back the spirit of the times and the movie.
California looks sunnier and more prosperous back then.
Hmm. I wonder what changed in the interim...
@museack - Thanks, I learnt a new word.
That's the great thing about film. You can manipulate it to achieve any look you want.
@museack Have you even ever been to California? I always find these hayseeds from Alabama and Arkansas making this idiotic comments.
What a wonderful job finding & filming all the movie locations! This was the first film ever shown at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. You solved a debate with a friend who grew up in LA & claimed the BIG W trees were in Santa Monica but I told him it was in PV. Great job & perfect soundtrack...thanks for the memories!
Thank you, R C!
I live in Yucca Valley and one scene filmed right at the intersection of 29 Palms Hwy. and Acoma which I drive often. Thanks for the great job with all these locations. Amazing work on your part.
California was mostly wide open spaces and undeveloped. Pitiful today
Ecocide takes no prisoners.
That’s what happens when you let people have children.
I've lived in Thousand Oaks since 1962 and the Rancho Conejo Airport, where some of the flying scenes were filmed, was built by local developer Janss Corp., for the purpose of attracting large corporations to the area. A large industrial park was under construction beginning in the late '50s, and they were able to get companies such as Northrop and Westinghouse to move there when the space race was in full swing. By 1967, the airport had been closed, but the runway remained for many years before they tore it up to prevent illegal use. It does have a sad chapter to its history. In 1978, a California Air National Guard F-105G Thunderchief, s/n 63-8321, crashed just north of the runway, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the crewman who was able to eject. The depression left by the crash is still visible on the hillside. The accepted theory is that the pilot came out of the clouds and tried to make what was left of the runway, which had been closed for a decade by then. Another 1/4-mile to the west, and he'd have crashed into the industrial park.
That movie was made about the time we arrived in Southern California (I was 5). I feel so fortunate to have grown up there. Yup, that's what it felt like. Way too overpopulated now so I don't live there anymore. I haven't seen that flick since I was a kid... I should check it out.
The tunnel location at Santa Clarita is also used in the film Duel I believe
The actress (Madlyn Rhue) that played secretary Schwartz at the police station had an interesting career. She got quite a bit of screen time in this film considering how long it is and how many stars were cast or made cameo appearances. She played the Enterprise officer who fell in love with and conspired with Ricardo Montalban's character (Khan) in the original Star Trek series. She was considered to play that role again in the Wrath of Khan but that character was written out. May have had to do with her MS, but in retrospect I can't see what her character would have added to the movie. Her (as Lieutenant McGiver) death was actually a prime motivation behind Khan's hatred of Captain Kirk. But, it would have been an interesting little onscreen reunion. She also played a love interest of a Montalban character in a Bonanza episode.
@museack LOL...you are correct.
One of my favorite movies of all time. I'll take it in 63' over today anytime.
Fun ti see and at the same time, makes me emotional . Such great people all gone . Never to see such a thing again . . And Now, I’m the old guy! Hahahahaha
Bravo!! Thank you for whoever put this together.
I love the music. I wish we could go back to those times...if only for a week. Things were so much simpler back then.
My friend and I went searching for the Big W (the Holy Grail for all of us). When we found it, it still had 3 trees left. I managed to take a couple of pictures with an old "instamatic" camera (if you remember those, you are old...like me!).
Scott Campbell Do you still have those pix? I'd love to see them!! Finding post-movie images of this is as rare as the trees themselves.
mca1218 Sure. You'll find one of the pix I shot in the 70's of the 3 trees still standing on my website: www.mgmbacklot2.com (on the last page) - it was the middle right tree that died first and was missing at the time I saw it, but the other 3 palm trees still looked healthy. It is an interesting shot because when I knocked on the door of the estate, the person living there at the time was mad: "I'm sick of everyone wanting to see The Big W. Go away. You can't come in." ( I understand that the subsequent owner was much more appreciative of what they had in their backyard!) So I climbed the hill on the other side of the highway and snapped some pictures over the roof of the house and into the backyard. At the time I thought "Too bad I couldn't get inside," but now I like it because it shows the layout of the whole location.
Cyclone Productions Thank you immensely. That's an awesome photo. I have loved this film for 40 years, and have only seen this 'Holy Grail' in two images: fully assembled and in the 1991 documentary when only one tree was left. Knowing they're all gone now, even if I had a chance to go to the owner's estate and actually view their backyard, I would probably become very depressed. Anyway, I have forever burned in my memory seeing the film in a theater in 1993 for its 30th anniversary, and that whole sequence still packed a punch; there were many people in the audience whispering even then, "I wonder if that's real, I'd like to see where that is." ("You go the way we came, and we'll go...")
@@luckyzert that is so cool, I just love it!
@@dankurydotcom Thanks!
This just came across my RUclips screen and it was great to see what was and what is and that some places haven't even changed. I love that movie.
Thank you for taking the time to take the effort and show the comparisons between then and now. Very cool!
Thanks for the upload! I first saw this great movie on Jan 1, 1988 on WPIX-11, exactly thirty years ago! It's amazing how some areas have changed so much and yet some have remained virtually unchanged since 1963.
Absolutely spectacular accomplishment!
That stump was the last of the Four Palm trees. Turning the BIG W into a comma. so sad
I am so impressed that all these places were found - way more is still standing than I would have thought.
I had goose bumps watching this. Thanks for all the thought, effort and skill that went into this.
Wow! Thank you so much for this!!! Fascinating to see the change.
thank you, westy, labor of love!
4 years since my comment and I still come back to watch! I love this movie and the locations!!!
Biggest discrepancy between 1963 & the present ?
1963- A ton of comedic personalities with which to make a giant ensemble cast of an over-the-top piece of cinematic history.
2020- A whole generation that mistook Will Farrell as a legit comic presence a decade ago & nothing worth commenting on since. Sad shit, really...😥
Edit: One GLARING exception- The Office. My fault, sorry !! 😎
You could most certainly remake this movie with a lot for really funny comedians and personalities... it's just that the MOVIES have gone way downhill since then. I wonder why they didn't have Buster Keaton AND Harold Lloyd in the film? The would have made a great comic duo for a scene... one brooding and dour, the other bright and goofy.
Will Farrell is the perfect comedian for dumbed down millenials. However, I did like him in the musical version of THE PRODUCERS in 2005.
@@ArizonaWillful Jerry Lewis perfected the kind of comedian Will Ferrell is... outlandish, bigger than life, childlike, slapstick. Millennials are going to save this country from the wreckage of what the Boomers handed them... an infantile president, do nothing ancient senators, and a society that bitches about wearing a mask.
The gasp I let out seeing Thousand Oaks and Agoura Hills pop up! Especially the Agoura Hills locations, those had me pointing at the screen like “I know where that is!!!”
Good job tracking down so many of the locations. I was amazed by how many of them dramatically changed, but it has been 60 years!
The surbanization of America.
Or rather the suburbanisation of America.
All those open spaces filled up with nowheres.
An incredible collection to my all=time favorite film. Thanks for putting this together.
It’s strange being nostalgic for a time I wasn’t alive for.
Just brilliant! Thanks for whoever made it AND for who posted!
labor of love...!
Feel like doing one for "What's Up Doc?" in San Francisco?
There were a few - very few - images in the 'now' which look remarkably similar.
One of the best, is the overhang (looks like a list little porte-cochere; a carriage porch) by the faux-white stone (It is fake, isn't it?) in the shot of Ethel Merman on the phone with Terry-Thomas and Milton Berle walking around?
The only apparent difference is the roof was painted a green (the phone booth Ms. Merman was in was a prop, so, I'm not counting it), but, all of it looks really well preserved!
+U.N. Owen In the desert, everything stays "well preserved", even through the years!
Fabulous, appreciate the time folks put into doing these. Brings old memories back to life.
This is my favorite movie of all time! Last watched Jan 21, 2017. I was wondering how the landscape filmed in those days looks today and then this video showed up!! Thank you!!
just watched it , Jan 24, 2017 . It was just Amazing movie .
California looked so much less crowded in the early 60s....a nicer place to live, it's a shame..... Mom and Dad were living in Long Beach in these years, Dad was in the Navy, I was very young. There's an old Eagles song goes, when people find paradise, they move there and ruin it.
Phil M “The Last Resort”, off Hotel California. The final two lines of the song are “They called it paradise, I don’t know why. You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”.
Most of it was filmed in the desert.
Awesome seeing my beautiful Southern California of the early 1960's and now. Thank you!!!
Great video for filming locations. A lot of hard work catching SO many spots for this one post. Well Done.
Outstanding job putting this together!
Makes me cry every time.... love this movie. so many star's..... best there is, best there was, best there will ever be, love it forever!!!!!!;
love this movie its a shame they are all gone now
Whoever made this comparison video should be congratulated. Great job!
An incredible musical score by Ernest Gold!
Classic California "Pave paradise and put up a parking lot"
“I’m doing a spot of liaison work up at Vandenberg, the missile base. All very HUSH -hush and WHOOSH- whoosh!”
No, it's - "....Enjoying a spot of leave actually from Vandenburg...."
I'm glad I was able to see this (thanks, Paul, for sending me the link, and Dave for commenting!)...this particular movie I've always considered my "introduction" to Hollywood and the movies. Amazingly, quite a few of the locations haven't changed all that much! Saddest was seeing what was left of the "Big W." Looking forward to this!
this was marvelous. Good job! I really did enjoy this and it brought back memories because I was 12 years old when this movie was released. I lived in Southern California and I remember all these places. Thank you to whomever created this. I'd like to see more comparisons like this.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting
Absolutely loved this! My favorite movie of all time and the original soundtrack made it even better!!
That was great and all the work on location. Thanks. Very enjoyable.
This was wonderful to put together this montage... thank you., I will be watching the movie again tonight...
Well done.
The days of America's innocence.
Seaman, don't be a downer. There was never a time which was good for everyone and it's wishful thinking there could be. I imagine everyone has times they can look back upon with fondness yet it is certain that many others were suffering at that same time. Life is good...it's how you look at it.
That WAS the innocent part. Now they slaughter each other waaaay more efficiently than the Klan ever did. It's a mad mad mad mad world, Skippy.
You do know the per-capita murder rate in 1963 was higher than it is today, right?
We almost had a nuclear war as this movie was being filmed in 1962 (the Cuban Missile Crisis) and the president of the US was assassinated two weeks after it premiered in November of '63.
Adam Ohm why bring that up.... just enjoy what it was.....
Did anyone else notice how much greener everything seems now. Even what appears to be remote desert areas seem to have a lot of green brush growing where, back when the movie was made, there was just sand and rocks.
Thank you..this saved me a ton of work trying to google map the locations now.
My all time favourite comedy...along with Laurel & Hardy!!!! Classic!!! Awesome work... .Well done :))
And he lived right around the corner from the incline - I wonder if they thought they could tempt him along right up until the last moment?
The Big W is gone? That's so sad.
for now
This is awesome!!! Always wanted to go this with some of my favorite movies. What a surprise to see some locations with very little change and others unrecognizable. Thanks for sharing your detective work.
1963 California... purchased my first home for $16,000! 1/2 mile from the ocean too. I was sweating bullets to pay the
$85 a month mortgage payment LOL!
You got a deal. My first house in San Jose had a mortgage of $69 a month!
The mountains in the back helped a lot, no ? :-)
This is fantastic & thanks for update that beings to mind each scene in the greatest comedy movie ever to this date still, May 2024!!! Indeed, Cheers to all IAMMMMMMW fans!!
Absolutely awesome video, so perfectly some and I can watch this movie over and over again😃😂😂😂thank you so much for sharing this, it brings back such great memories, also back in the good old days for me. Awesome, talented actors and actresses and I loved them all
Nice job finding those exact locations! Excellent!