You know, there are hundreds and hundreds
of science-fiction movies out there, but hardly any film has achieved such
a cult status as "Back to the Future". First released in 1985, the trilogy has
millions of fans all over the globe. And "Back to the Future" is also one of the few science-fiction movies
that has been caught up by reality meanwhile. As you might know, the second part of the series shows
a fictional version of the year 2015. This legendary movie "Back to the Future" was filmed in and around Los Angeles,
and today it is time to find the famous shooting locations and to see how
they have changed within 37 years. Time for a new movie location tour. I just arrived at the first shooting
location for today, which is also the first scene that you
can see in the movie "Back to the Future". If you remember the beginning of the movie, Marty visits Doc Brown
in his creepy old shed, or whatever that is. And then he
drives away with the skateboard. And in this scene you
can see a Burger King. And I found it. It's that one over there. Yeah, but we won't start
with the Burger King. We will start as in the movie,
with Doc Brown's creepy old garage you can see in the movie a lot of times. And there are some fascinating facts about
this garage because it really exists in reality, but at a different
place in a different year. Well, yeah, it's quite complicated. But the funny thing is,
right here at this place, right next to this Burger King, there is
no creepy old shed, as you can see here. This was just a set they built for the movie and they
demolished it when finished. But you can still see where exactly
this creepy old garage was standing. You can still see those parking spaces
on the left, those yellow parking spaces. And you can still see
this entrance for cars in the middle. There is a huge parking space behind the Burger King parking
space and a huge company building. Right in the middle of this entrance,
they have built this garage. You can still see that the power pole on the left side of the
picture is still here. You can also see that the company building on the right side was
also here 37 years ago. And what you can also see is this strange
asphalt of the Burger King parking space. There is some kind of a weird line that goes through this parking space.
Do you see that? I don't know why. Maybe it's for rain water
or something like that. I don't know. But yeah, this strange line is still
here in reality 37 years later. In this scene, we can see Marty driving his skateboard across
the Burger King parking lot. And that has been filmed from over here.
And in this scene, we can also see this building
in the background that you can also see in the movie, it had a slightly
different color in the past. And in this scene, we can also see what
kind of building this actually is. Meanwhile, it's a shop for home
accessories, obviously. And this is the Burger King scene
as we know it from the movie. And here we also see
the Burger King restaurant itself. And if we take a closer look, we can see: Meanwhile, it has some kind
of a porch at the front of this building. You see that? That hasn't
been here 37 years ago. But if you take a closer look at
the building itself: it is still the same. It has a different color. It looks totally different. It has a porch, but it's obviously it's
exactly the same building. What you can also see is that the logo,
the sign of the Burger King has changed. Meanwhile, we can see a tree on the sidewalk that hasn't
been here 37 years ago. And there is also a palm tree in front of the Burger King restaurant that also
hasn't been here in the past. The camera pans to the right,
and here we can see: there is a huge building on the right that also
has been here 37 years ago. Even though in the past,
this obviously was a printing company, at least there was a sign
with the name "printing" on it. I don't know. Meanwhile, it's home of the F 22 studios. We can also see on the left side of the picture, there are a few
different signs of shops here. For example, Toys R US. Obviously, it's not here anymore. The funny thing is: also the German supermarket chain Aldi has
a store in the street. I, to be honest, didn't even know that Aldi, a company from my home country,
has stores in the United States. But well, now I know.
And I would say now let's move on to the next shooting location. I think I have to disappoint you first. Yeah, that's life. I'm pretty sure you also clicked on this
video to see Hill Valley, the fictional village that you can
see in the movie Back to the Future. A lot of times. The problem is it's not only the village that is fictional, it's also
the shooting location that is fictional. Is that a right sentence?
I don't know. It's not a real place. Hill Valley is actually a studio set in
Universal Studios, and it's still there. You can still visit it if you do
a guided tour in Universal Studios. You can still visit the set
from Back to the Future. But, well, I decided not to visit this studio set today. I decided only to visit the places
that you can also visit in public. And the next place on the list is
nearly as important as Hill Valley. It's, of course, the living house
of Marty McFly and his family. It should be in the street over here. Let's try to find it. Yeah, I hope you're ready
for the big moment? This is the house of Marty McFly and his
family as we know it from the movie. And this is how it looks today. In reality, we can see the house,
meanwhile, has a different color. Meanwhile, it's more white and yellow. In the past, it used
to be red, brownish. Me as a European, I would say it looked
a bit like a Swedish wooden house. Yeah, it's not like that anymore. What is still here are those two huge power poles right behind
this famous house. And also the tree on the right side is
still here, even though it's much bigger meanwhile, 37 years later. The structure
of the house is basically the same. As you can see here, there are
only a few new windows and doors. If you take a closer look,
the only thing that really has changed here is the nature, because right now
in California, it's so hot and dry. It obviously wasn't
like that in the movie. You can see a lot of green
around the house. It's much greener. Meanwhile, there is basically no grass anymore because it's so
hot and dry right now. This is the street we
all know from the movie. Marty is coming with his skateboard
and that has been filmed from over here. We can see almost nothing has changed. There is still this
house on the left side. There are still those trees on the left
and on the right side of the road. Meanwhile, they are much bigger
than they used to be 37 years ago. There are still those parking spaces where people park their cars on the left
and on the right of the street. Meanwhile, the cars are much more modern. But yeah, everything else
looks quite the same here. This is a scene filmed in daylight at the end of the movie when
Doc Brown comes to visit Marty. That has been filmed from over here. And also here we can see not
that much has changed in this scene. Here it gets a bit tricky because there is this
huge tower truck right in front of Marty's house because Biff damaged the car,
as you might remember. And in reality you can see here on the right side,
there are a lot of trees and bushes and stuff like that, so that we
don't really see this house anymore that we can see in the movie scene. There's also a wall and a gate
and a fence and stuff like that. Yeah, it looks totally different
than it used to 37 years ago. Marty is hanging cool on the garage door. Unfortunately, we can't film the scene like in the movie because,
of course, this is private property. We can't go into the garage. But anyway, this is the house we can
see in the movie in the background. And also here we can see in the past
it used to be yellowish. Meanwhile, it's more gray/white. Here's the chaos squad altogether
this scene has been filmed from over here. And here, once again,
we can see it's much more dry. Meanwhile, there is basically no
grass right beside the sidewalk. This scene is quite funny because right
behind Doc Brown there is a blue building, obviously a garage, and this
blue building is still here. Look at this. It looks even more blue than in the past but obviously this garage door that you
can see right behind Doc Brown is white. Meanwhile, in the past,
it used to be blue. And this is the last
scene I want to show you from this place. The DeLorean goes back to the future and I would say we
will also go back to the future now. Let's move on to our
next filming location. Time to visit the next
famous living house. This time it's Doc Brown's house, which, to be honest,
looks quite funny in the movie "Back to the Future". And well, it's still
like that 37 years later in reality. Well, actually, this house is not funny. It's an architectural masterpiece. It was built in the year 1908
as a living house for David B. Gamble, who was the son of James Gamble, who is the founder of Procter
and Gamble, a huge US company. So that's why this house is
also called the Gamble House. Meanwhile, there are no rich
dudes living here anymore. Meanwhile, this house is
a historical landmark. You can visit it, there are guided tours. And then you will learn
a lot about architecture. Yeah, in this scene we can see: obviously not that much has changed
within the past 37 years. The house still looks quite the same here in the movie scene,
we can see Doc Brown on the right side running around in his
garden with a lot of stuff. What we can see here is: there is some kind of an orange tree or apple tree or something like that on the right
that obviously isn't here anymore. And we can also see that there used to be
some kind of a wall overground by Ivy in the past that also looks
a bit different today. And now it gets interesting. If you remember the beginning of this
video when we were standing right beside the Burger King and we didn't
find Doc Brown's old shed. Well, ta-da, here it is. Meanwhile, we're in the year 1955 in the movie and in reality, here in 2022,
there really is this old garage. As you might remember in the movie,
they say that Doc Brown's living house, the Gamble house in reality, burned down in
the 1960s and only the garage was left. Well, in reality we can see: nope, the Gamble house didn't burn down and also
the garage is still here, even though the doors are a bit
different if you take a closer look. Meanwhile, it's not a garage anymore
of some kind of weird professor. Meanwhile, it's a bookstore. But yeah, the structure of the house the roof and also the color
are still the same. Here's Marty standing at the entrance
of Doc Brown's property. And we can see this entrance to the garage and to the living house is paved with
bricks like it used to be 37 years ago. What isn't here anymore is the number
on the left side of the picture. The vintage car Brown is
driving obviously is also gone. But the tree on the right side
obviously is also still here. And this is the last
scene I want to show you from this place. We can see Marty
walking towards Doc Brown's house. And what we can see here is the bush, or the little tree on the left side
of the walking path is also still here. Or it's a different bush, I guess. I think it's a different bush. But yeah, the walking path itself still looks exactly the same
like it did 37 years ago. So we're back in the next very
quiet Los Angeles living area. This is the street where we should find Lorraine's house and maybe also the tree
where her future husband and Marty's father is sitting on to spy
through the window. Yeah, let's try to find it.
Yeah. And this is Lorraine's house
as we know it from the movie. And this is how it looks like
today in reality, 37 years later. What we can see is the color
of the house is different. Meanwhile, it's gray/greenish. In the past it used to be white/gray. What we also can see is that the tree on the right side, right in front
of Lorraine's window, is still here. And what we also can see is that the residents of this house obviously
have a soft spot for flowers or flower pots because there are a lot of them
standing right in front of the door. And what we can also see is that obviously the room behind Lorraine's window isn't
used anymore as a living room or as a bedroom or something like that because
there is a lot of stuff standing right behind this window, which is
quite funny, to be honest. And obviously the people living here don't
give a shit that this is a famous movie scene from Back to the Future,
which is also a statement, I would say. On the other side of the road
we will find a huge tree. And this might be the tree where George McFly was lying
on to spy through the window. I'm not 100% sure,
but maybe this left branch you can see here in reality might be the branch
George McFly was lying on in the movie. It looks a bit different.
It looks a bit like this branch is like, I don't know, lying across
the road or something. It's definitely not like that in reality. But yeah, maybe it's because
of the camera position. I have the feeling that this left branch
you can see here in reality, this might be the branch where
George McFly was lying on. And here we can see George McFly falling from the tree. That has
been filmed in the street over here. We can see: yup,
the street almost looks the same like it did 37 years ago,
even though the cars parking on the left and on the right of the road, of course
are a bit more modern than in 1955. Here is Marty McFly
coming to rescue his dad. And yeah, this scene was a bit tricky. But then I finally found this house. Marty is standing right in front of this house over here. And why is that? Because this house has some kind
of an archway on the right side. If you take a closer look here, in the
past it used to be overgrown by ivy. Meanwhile, it's not anymore. There were also some bushes right
in front of the veranda of the house. They are also not here anymore. And the house also has a new door
if you take a look at the left. In the past it used to be meanwhile,
this house has a brown door. But if you take a look at the structure
of the house and everything around it, yep, it's exactly the same like the house
you can see in the movie scene. In this scene, we can see a bit more
of this house and of the area around it. And what you can also see is a huge tree on the left side of the picture
that used to be here 37 years ago. And it's still here. And it's even more beautiful,
even though the area around it in the past was definitely much
greener than it is today. This is one of the first
scenes we can see. In this scene,
Marty is coming out of the bushes, and then he runs to the tree
his dad is lying on. This scene has been filmed from over here,
and also this house still exists. And also the color has changed. Meanwhile, in the past,
it used to be white/gray. And this is the last scene I want
to show you from this place. And I'm not 100% sure where this scene has
been filmed, because you can see a huge hedge on the right side,
and in reality, it looks like this. I think this could be the place
they have filmed this scene. We can also see a hedge on the right side,
but it's much smaller than in the movie. But I think this could be the scene, because you can see a lot of trees
in the background, and those branches of the trees,
they hang over the pedestrian sidewalk. So you can also see
that in the movie scene. So, yeah, maybe this could be
the place they have filmed this scene. The next shooting location is a tricky
one, as you can see, obviously, it's the parking space where Marty
does his very first time travel. It was not that hard to find the parking space itself,
but it's quite hard to find the exact location where all those
scenes have been filmed. And I'm still not 100% sure,
but I'm pretty sure it was this side, the south side of this huge mall you
can see here and also in the movie. Yeah, let's see if we
are standing right here. Yeah, I think we're absolutely right here. This is the famous mall from the movie "Back to the Future", which in reality,
is not the Twin Pines Mall. In reality, it's the Puente Hills Mall. And I was a bit confused first,
because if you take a look at the huge building on the right, you can see
meanwhile, it has a different color. Obviously, it's orange. In the past, it used to be red purpleish,
but it looks also quite tiny in the movie, you see that? And I think this is not because we're standing at the wrong parking
space or something like that. This is exactly the place. I think this is because they use some
kind of a wide angle lens for the movie. If you take a look at the background, it looks a bit round, and that's an effect
you can get from such a wide angle lens. And that might also be the reason why this building on the right side looks
a bit tiny compared to the reality. You can also see that in reality,
this building looks much higher. I think that's because of the dark sky, you can't really see
the top of this building. So I think the reason why it looks
so different is just an illusion. By the way, this building,
meanwhile, is a gym. In the past, it used to be a JCPenney
supermarket on the left side. In reality, we can see a fashion store. Meanwhile, what we can also see is there are a lot of palm trees on this
parking space today in reality, that haven't been here
37 years ago, obviously. But in the movie scene, you can see a few
quite small trees around this building. And they obviously are not here anymore. Or at least most of them are not
here anymore on this parking space. In this scene, we can have a closer look at this huge building on the right side,
the JCPenney supermarket. And by the way, JCPenney is not a fake
shop fake store like the Twin Pines Mall. It's a real US supermarket chain
and a quite traditional one. It was founded in 1902
by James Cashpenny. That's why it's called JCPenney. Unfortunately, during COVID in 2020,
this supermarket chain had to file for bankruptcy and they had
to close a lot of branches. And also here, right next to the Twin Pines Mall, there
is no JCPenney supermarket today anymore. Meanwhile, as I said, it's a gym building. Here is Doc Brown standing right in front of the JCPenney building,
and that has been filmed from over here. The funny thing is,
there is still this lantern on the right that also has been here 37
years ago in the movie scene. And the trees right in front of the building are much higher today
than they used to be in the past. Here's Marty and Doc Brown standing
in front of those buildings over here. Once again, we can see the entrance
of the Twin Pines Mall of the Puente Hill Small on the right. And another
huge building on the left. I don't even know what that is. There is no sign or something
like that in front of the doors. Yeah, but also here we can see there are
a lot of pawn trees right in front of those buildings that obviously
haven't been here 37 years ago. What is also quite interesting, to be honest, is this video
camera Marty is filming with. I'm standing here filming with an iPhone. It's quite fascinating what
has changed within 37 years, right?
This scene has been filmed from over here, and once again, we can see the JCPenney
building in the background. And we can also see some barriers
on the ground of this parking space in the movie scene that don't
exist anymore today. And this scene is also quite interesting,
to be honest, because here we can see a building in the background
that obviously isn't here anymore. In reality,
this should be the perspective, because on the left,
we can see Doc Brown's truck that we already saw in the first scene
from this parking space. So this must be the perspective. But the building in the background
obviously isn't here anymore. Well, and before I left this huge
parking space, I went into Puente Hill Mall, or Twin Pines Mall, because I had
to go to the bathroom. And to be honest, this is the saddest shopping center
I've ever seen in my whole life. A lot of stores in this mall are closed. There is absolutely nothing going on here. But if you take a closer look at a hidden corner in this shopping center,
you will find this famous sign. I don't know if it's the original sign from the movie or if it's a fake sign,
but actually, it doesn't matter. Even though this shopping center obviously
is dying, this famous sign is still here. And I think that's all we need, right? Okay.
I never liked going to school that much. Today I do, because I just arrived at Hill Valley High School, which is over here, and in reality,
it's called Wittier Union High School. Yeah.
And if you are wondering why the heck is this guy standing in front
of a gate or a fence? Well, the problem is school was already out when I arrived here,
so the whole school yard was locked. There wasn't anybody who could let me in. And also, the school building
obviously was closed. The good thing is, obviously, at least that's what I read
on the Internet, you can actually visit this school yard and you can actually
visit this school building from inside, because they also shot the inside
scenes in this school building. They didn't use a studio for that. And if you're lucky and if the school is open, it should be possible
to visit it during the day. Unfortunately, when I arrived here,
it was closed. So unfortunately, we can only visit
the buildings from the outside. The interesting thing about this school
building is in the movie, they show you different versions
of the school building. For example, there are a lot of scenes
that show the school in 1985. In this scene, there is a lot of graffiti at the entrance store of the school
building. In the year 1955 there isn't any of that. The school building looks brand new. What you can also see in the movie scenes, there are some lanterns on the left
and on the right of this school entrance. They are not here anymore. Maybe they just put them
here for the movie scenes. But there are definitely no lanterns here. There are also no bicycles here in front of this school entrance,
as you can see it in the movie. And of course, the Hill Valley High School in reality is the Wittier
Union high school. So they, of course, changed the sign
at the top of the building. What they didn't change is
the administration sign that you can see here above the door and also
here above the door, in reality. I'm in the middle of nowhere. And it's 39 degrees again. This is the last shooting
location I want to show you today. It's a private street. I'm pretty sure I'm not
even allowed to be here. This is when they have filmed the year 1955, where Marty arrives with the DeLorean
and he's trying to find his living area, but he only finds two huge signs
that say Lyon Estates and a dusty road. Yeah, that scene was filmed
somewhere here on this private road. Let's try to find it. Yeah, this private road actually
belongs to a model airfield. And this area around it is also quite
interesting because even though it doesn't look like it, there is some kind
of a lake nearby and also an RV campsite. And also and that makes this
place a little bit creepy: a women's prison.
Yeah. So if you drive along this road, you will see a lot of fences with barbed
wire on it and a lot of security stuff. So, yeah, for some reason this place
is a bit creepy, to be honest. And once again, it's 40 degrees out here. Even my phone died because it's too hot. Anyway, let's do what we have to do. Let's try to compare the movie scenes. And this is one of the scenes
we all know from the movie. Marty is searching for Lyon Estates,
his residential area. And then he walks for 2
miles to Hill Valley. And that has been filmed
somewhere over here. Why is that? Because we can see some kind of a water
tower in the background that you can also see here in reality, which maybe
belongs to the women's prison. I'm not really sure. But, yeah, somewhere in that area
there is the women's prison. So maybe this water tower belongs to it. What we can also see is in the movie
scene, there is a lot of grass on the left and on the right, right beside the road,
it's not here anymore. On the left there is a little bit of grass, but behind that there is
a huge sandy field with nothing on it. On the right side we
have corn cultivation. And what you can also see is
that there are road markings in the middle of the road in the movie scene
that are also not here anymore. I was wondering, was this maybe some kind of a busy road in the past
and that they don't use it anymore? Because I haven't met a single person and a single car here
while I was standing here. There's nothing going on here anymore. I'm in the middle of nowhere. What speaks against this theory is
that there are power poles meanwhile, on the left side of the road
that haven't been here 37 years ago. So there must be some kind of civilization
around which hasn't been here in the past. And what is also quite interesting,
if you take a look at the horizon, you will see in the movie scene,
there is nothing to see there. In reality, we can see a huge
mountain range in the background. Obviously, while they shot the movie, it was quite hazy, so that you
don't see the mountains in reality. You can see there is a huge mountain
range in the background at the horizon. And this is the reverse shot. Marty is coming with his DeLorean, and that has been filmed
from over here, more or less. Now, we can also see in the movie scene, there is a huge mountain
range in the background. And we can also see there is some kind of
a forest in the background on the left. This forest is also still here. What we can also see is in the movie, there has been huge meadow on the left
and on the right of this picture. Meanwhile, on the left we have the cornfield, and on the right,
we have this dusty, sandy field. This really is a strange place. There is also a lot of trash on the left
and on the right of the road, even though there are basically no cars
here, there is also no fence anymore. On the left side, there is only this weird site fence and also
a pylon on the left side. For whatever reason.
Here's Marty jumping out of his DeLorean. And that has been filmed from over here. Once again, we can see
this area changed a lot. And then I made a huge mistake because, of course, I also wanted to show
you the Lyon Estates entrance. And when I was standing here, I really thought, this is the entrance
that you can also see in the movie. But when I left, I was quite sure, no, this is not the right dusty road
you see in the movie scene. I think I should have walked down
the street a few meters further. I was standing here somewhere. And I think the real dusty road you
can see in the movie is over here. So, unfortunately, this was a huge fail. I'm sorry for that, but, well, it was 40
degrees outside and my brain was melting. So, yeah, I'm sorry for that. But, yeah, I think most of the other
scenes were accurate, more or less. So I think, let's leave this place. Let's head back to the airconditioned. Hotel Room. So I'm back in my motel room. That was my shooting location tour of "Back to the Future", my second shooting location
tour from Los Angeles, and my second shooting location
tour when it's 40 degrees outside. Jesus, it's really different to do
that when it's so hot outside. You basically only have a time slot
of like ten minutes or something to visit all those locations, and after
that it really gets uncomfortable. You really have to go back to the car
and switch the air conditioning on because, yeah,
it's so hot outside and it's really not healthy to stand around there
for like an hour or something. So anyway, I will stop whining now. I have everything on video
and that's all I ever wanted. So I really hope you liked
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