I do the same thing. Growing up in Burbank California, it's fun to watch the Rockford Files where a lot of the locations shots where filmed in Burbank. Now when I waetch it on METV I'll see a gas station or a building that has be replaced or changed. The real fun though is watching Perry Mason and to see how bad the smog was back in the late 50's and early 60's.
P.S. Where Rockford parks his mobile home. In reality it's parked on a prime piece of property in Malibu (a restaurant parking lot in
Paradise Cove). It's a nice TV dream to think he lives feet from the beach. However, the reality is the City of Malibu would forbid it. Not to mention the restaurant would frown on him taking up the parking spaces for his trailer.
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rwilkins2
8 years ago
So true. I have all the book written about TRF and have many pictures of the sets and filming locations. Cherokee Productions which was owned by Mr Garner did a ton of location shooting back then. I have an picture of a Perry Mason episode where Paradise Cove was used in the beginning of the episode and you can recognize the pier and the landscape but that was about it. To compare it to when it was used on TRF's is like night and day. The place where Jims trailer was located was used as the beach house for the movie American Pie. There is no telling how many times that old trailer was towed to and from the studio for location filming. Nice to see another Jim Rockford fan. Shoot me a message and lets talk!
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Wes
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liscarkat (18897)
5 years ago
"to see how bad the smog was back in the late 50's and early 60's."
Yes, smog in the '50s through '70s was horrible. It started getting better in the '80s, and now it's really nothing compared to how bad it used to be.
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