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Recognizing locations

posted 9 years ago by chatanuga
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Has anybody else watching the show ever recognized a location from a scene in another TV show or movie or someplace they've actually been to in real life?

The stretch of freeway used in seasons 2 and 3 was also used in the TV movie Death Car on the Freeway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWSQ0J__fQ

Some of the scenes where they're on a 2-lane country road have looked similar to scenes from Duel.

When watching "Thrill Show" recently, in the scene where Ponch and Jon are following the tour bus around the corner at an angled intersection, I swear it looked like the same intersection that Marion turned at in Psycho just before turning into the car dealership.

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[–] Eclectic_Flamingo 9 years ago

In the episode "Vintage 54", the scene when the dumpster was rolling downhill was filmed on the same street as the dirtbike chase from The Fast and the Furious. You can see several of the same buildings in the the background.

This bread has NUTS IN IT!

[–] chatanuga 9 years ago

Found the interchange used in the show on Google Maps. Looking at the street view, it hasn't changed much since the show was filmed there. Looks like all of the ramps are the same.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2844876,-118.4039114,3a,75y,349.48h,92 .58t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSp-sYijWyNal5mf555u2fQ!2e0

[–] hunterofserenity-2 9 years ago

I have actually looked up businesses that are in episodes to see if they still exist. Some of them do. There was a car dealership that still exists, in the Halloween episode in season 2, there was a liquor store that is still there, and in season 6 there was a toy store that just recently went out of business.

[–] basterd7 9 years ago

All the time. I live in Marina Del Rey, where Ponch was supposed to live, so I recognize locations around here such as Lincoln and Washington Blvds. used all the time on the show. There was one 1979 episode that aired a month or so ago where they shot outside the DMV here on Washington. Looked exactly the same as present day.

[–] darkavenger77 9 years ago

I just watched Ice Cream Man (5.24) and the hotel where the ex-CHP sergeant was staying is still standing. I posted it as trivia for the episode.

Google 177 West D Street Los Angles and you can see the building 33 years later. It's been repainted but the structure is the same. It looks like the building next door has been torn down though. This link may show it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.774127,-118.262968,3a,90y,181.79h,87.0 2t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOjQZn3cxM2TA7w_FSTypqQ!2e0

Dean: I am wearing sunglasses at night. You know who does that? No-talent douche bags!

[–] basterd7 9 years ago

Just watched the Barcelona Man episode and recognized another location. Fox Hills shopping plaza in Culver City. The scene where Ponch and Bobby are parked next to a grocery store. They catch the bad guy with the shopping cart(whew, the writing went seriously downhill this last season). The grocery store is now a Marshalls:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.984108,-118.392855,3a,75y,199.62h,88.76t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sedw2iPTv0QOdbeZdZYMzRw!2e0

[–] JMTages 9 years ago

The mansion raided by Fred Dryer's ninja squad in Season Five's finale "Force Seven" looks just like the place (film director Henry Jaglom's mansion) that gets shot up in the movie "Beverly Hills Cop" which came out a couple of years after this episode.

There are times during the garden scenes when I was seriously expecting Judge Reinhold and John Ashton to show up and then duck for cover.

[–] darkavenger77 9 years ago

There are times during the garden scenes when I was seriously expecting Judge Reinhold and John Ashton to show up and then duck for cover.

LOL, great scene:

Detective Rosewood: Police! You're all under arrest!
<Gun thugs answer with a long hail of machine gun fire>
Sergeant Taggart: You do that again, I'll shoot you myself!

Of course, if they were to duck & cover, it would be due not to bad guys but instead a really bad plot and writing. Then there's the time travel problem from 1984 to 1982...

Hollywood: See a gun, hear it get cocked!

[–] dolenz5 9 years ago

A few times they have used Los Angeles County Fire Station 51 and the engine and rescue squad from 'Emergency'. I love it when I see those shots!

[–] glennh69 9 years ago

In the S6 Laura Branigan "Foxtrap" episode, the pocket bike chase was filmed at the Holiday Inn Burbank & its parking garage. It's still there and still a Holiday Inn. I was inside just a few months ago and it looks like it hasn't been refurbished since CHiPs was filmed in '83 (quite the time warp!).

https://goo.gl/maps/4NtIy

[–] darkavenger77 9 years ago

The address on the parking ticket envelope was an actual LA County courthouse in Culver City in 1983 (the address just said "City" for the city name but everything else was correct). Circa 2006 it became a museum.

RIP Ron Swanson. Writers created your awesomeness in S1 and killed it in S7

[–] misd-86934 8 years ago

I can't understand why there was never a cross over between Chips and Emergency!. Weren't they on at the same time for at least a couple of years?

[–] basterd7 9 years ago

A landmark location from today's episode(Name Your Price), Carney's Express, a famous chili dog joint in a train car. Located on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood. Still looks exactly the same.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0959,-118.371659,3a,75y,293.44h,95.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sujBakibbZ2dwegJWHrGl2A!2e0