Up In Smoke Filming Locations - Cheech & Chong

[Music] up in smoke technically not an 80s movie but i'm pretty sure that most of us that grew up in the 80s grew up watching their movies and up and smoke is actually not my favorite movie of theirs but still a great one definitely a classic and i thought we would just start at the beginning and kind of work our way forward and eventually get to my favorite movie of theirs so today we'll be checking out filming locations for the classic movie up in smoke let's go see what we can find so this property right behind me this used to be where the house was that was used as tommy chong's character's house who is simply called man but there's not a lot to see here because for one the house is pretty well covered and in the movie we don't really see the house too well anyways we really just see the garage and then that long driveway that he's driving down but on top of that that original house burned down some time ago and it's been rebuilt so yeah not really too much to see here but somewhere here was that long driveway that man is driving down i mean the other thing is too this property is so huge there's like three driveways so i don't even know this could have been the driveway that man is driving down there's really no way to tell i mean down there is where i was just talking and then this is another driveway but like i said somewhere here is that driveway that he's driving on there's no way to tell exactly which one because the property's been rebuilt so this right here this was pedro's house and it's been fixed up quite a bit but the structure of the house is still the same you know new paint job and definitely cleaned up quite a bit since the 80s but luckily they haven't changed the structure much now we first see this house in the beginning of the movie when pedro comes walking out the front door and there would have been a man sitting on a toilet in the front yard and then another man who i'm assuming someone that pedro lives with one of his relatives comes over to talk to pedro before he then heads across the street and gets into his car love machine which would have been parked right here but that house that it's parked in front of as you can see is gone it's been torn down and we'll get to that in a second [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the location where pedro asks man how he's driving and man responds i think we're parked and that would have happened right over here this whole area looks a bit different it's a bit more developed the sidewalk wouldn't have been here at the time and this shopping center has definitely been remodeled since then but the car would have basically been parked right in between this fire hydrant and this lamp post and you can actually see a lamp post behind the car in the movie probably not the same lamppost since this area has been remodeled so much but possibly in the same place you can also see this store in the background behind them but it's definitely changed a lot since then pedro's car would have been parked right here and then they make a u-turn and they go into an empty lot right here and we talked earlier about how the house that was across from pedro's house got torn down and actually when they came back to shoot that scene the house had been torn down in between when they shot the beginning scenes and when they came back to shoot that scene so that's why later in the movie when it has that shot of him making the u-turn it's now a empty field and they pull into the lot and they make a u-turn and then they end up pulling up right in front of these houses and they're actually stopped right in front of that house right there [Music] after going searching and finding nothing pedro remembers that his cousin strawberry might be able to help him so they stopped to pay him a visit we see the love machine turn onto his street and the camera shoots through the front yard can't really do that anymore because the front of the house is covered by a bunch of bushes they park on the side and as they're walking up to the house pedro's telling man to make sure he doesn't say anything about strawberry's birthmark as the camera shoots through the front yard we can see this apartment building across the street which is still there it just no longer has the letters on it pedro and strawberry take off and leave man at the house and then this happens meanwhile the cops are sitting in a van that's parked right in front of this house which is right across the street from the side of strawberry's house [Music] strawberry and pedro go for a ride on strawberry's motorcycle and we see them turning onto carlotta boulevard from avenue 40 and this is just one street over from where strawberry lives [Music] we then see them turning off of carlotta boulevard and this is where the motorcycle leaned so much that the sidecar comes up off the ground with pedro in it they're now on avenue 38 coming back up on strawberry's house so basically they just went around the block all of a sudden strawberry starts to have a war flashback and he decides to bail off the motorcycle and he does that right here in front of this tree [Music] after strawberry bales pedro continues down the street in the sidecar he rolls through pasadena avenue and then right over the railroad tracks that used to be right here in front of me and then crashes into that market [Music] so he would have been coming down the street coming right towards where i'm standing goes over the railroad tracks and then crashes into this market unfortunately the pay phone's no longer there in the alley directly behind pedro's house this is where pedro and curtis are talking and curtis is trying to convince pedro to buy the diamond pedro's car would have been parked right here in front of this fence and then we get a shot looking down the alley when curtis is scratching the windshield with the diamond we probably get the best shot of pedro's house when the immigration bus is parked out front and everybody's coming out of the house and getting on the bus so they can get a free ride down to tj for pedro's cousin's wedding now they did go all the way down to tj for one quick scene in this intersection but nothing here really looks the same this was the scene where pedro was talking on the pay phone which was a prop phone that they stuck on the wall with double-sided tape and if you notice throughout the scene he's leaning up against the phone to keep it stuck to the wall and that would have been right over here [Music] pedro and man then head to the upholstery shop to pick up the van for pedro's uncle and believe it or not that upholstery shop was located right here in santa monica of course it was heavily dressed to make it look like an upholstery shop in tj they would have come around the corner right here and at the time there was a wall right here not sure if that was placed there for the movie or if it was actually there at the time they walk right past this window that had some fabric hanging in it and as you can see the addresses have changed a bit in the movie it was 1811. it's now 1815. as they get to about right here they're talking about the burritos and pedro throws his on the ground right before a dog comes up and takes man's burrito out of his hand and right here this would have been the entrance to the office of the upholstery shop for the border crossing they used an agriculture checkpoint in winterhaven california and from google maps we can see not a lot has changed here but it is just a checkpoint so i'm not really sure why a lot would change [Music] [Music] sergeant sedenko and his men are now trailing the van which is traveling down this road [Music] and once they see a couple of girls hitchhiking on the freeway overpass they cut across traffic so that they can get on the freeway as they cut across traffic sergeant sedenko continues down this road going right underneath the freeway overpass where the two girls are hitchhiking [Music] [Music] sergeant stedenko finally gets his car turned around and he's headed back towards the freeway he tells one of the other officers to shoot out the tires and he's obviously talking about the tires of the van but the cop shoots out their tires instead and they end up right over here in this patch of dirt [Music] so [Music] this is the old lincoln heights jail which closed in the 60s and since then it's been used in a ton of different movies and right on the other side of that roll-up door was the lobby of the police station where they go to visit gloria and where pedro and man mess around with the police radio now we don't ever actually see the outside of the police station but when the camera is looking through the door you can see a salvage yard across the street which would have been located right over here and as you can see the salvage yard is no longer here but that's the most we see of the outside of this building right here in front of me this is where the food stand used to be located where they're hanging out getting some food and the guy smells the smoke coming off of the van and then he runs over to the food stand and he gets himself about 10 or 15 hot dogs a couple of times in that scene you can see this bridge right here and then right behind the man when he's ordering the hot dogs you can see this bridge and you can see the sign for riverside drive which is right here after pedro and man finish their hot dogs they get in the van and they drive off that way down riverside drive going over the bridge this is where the motorcycle cop was parked and when he sees the van go by he takes off after it and when he does on the right side you can see a 711 and a gas station both of which are still there and on that corner on the left side you can see the famous henry's tacos which unfortunately was forced to close down some years back but the good news is henry's tacos reopened just up the block the cop finally catches up with them more than eight miles in the other direction and ends up pulling him over right here [Music] as he's approaching the van you can see a bit of this park just past the utility pole make sure to keep your eye on that side view mirror for the shirtless guy who's watching them film [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all of those scenes in the parking lot take place right in between these two buildings the rainbow bar and grill on my right side and the roxy theater on my left side right over here is where the van was parked in it's kind of hard to tell because at the time this outdoor bar wasn't here but in that scene you can see a couple of wooden posts in front of the van and if we come over here those wooden posts are still there right over here is where all the different bands were sitting down lined up against the wall and in front of this door is where pedro's band members were sitting [Music] once the show starts pedro starts noticing all the different styles that the bands have so he starts working on a new song and he heads up to the dressing rooms to tell man about it now that was filmed in the nearby whisky agogo dressing rooms which are now used as booking offices it's kind of hard to tell exactly where that took place because everything up here has been changed so much but i'm pretty sure that right in front of this window where this desk is that's where the couch was that man's sitting on i always thought this part of the movie was really cool how they show a bunch of local la punk and new wave bands now rumor has it legendary la punk band the germs was one of the bands that came down to audition but after they started a food fight they were told they wouldn't be in the movie but there's a scene in the parking lot where you can see one of the bands that definitely appears to be a young version of the germs [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] meanwhile back inside the roxy theater rodney on the rock stands right here on the stage and introduces alice bowie and we see the band walk out of this door from the dressing rooms and up onto the stage to a not so welcoming crowd [Music] [Music] back outside in front of the roxy one of the hare krishnas that the cops took the outfits from gets up and tosses his cigarette into the gutter which causes the van to catch on fire once the smoke from the van starts pouring through the vents of the club everybody starts to loosen up and have a good time and pedro and man and alice bowie end up winning over the crowd and having a great show thus a happy ending to our movie you

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Length: 19min 20sec (1160 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 12 2022