Culver City, California recent comments:

helllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo TOM!

Yes, this is the former MGM studio

Yes in Culver City, as a child could recall coming out of St.Augustine after Mass, seeing the flames of action of filming down at MGM, yet never recall getting to tour the Studio grounds, but had relatives who made films there, and recall the old movies made from MGM, and am 70 years old, but grew up in Culver City, California, and went to the Movies there, School there, and Culver City was one of the citys lived for 8 years of my early childhood, Sincerely Gloria J. White, adopted niece to "Gloria Youngblood, who was in Trade Winds, Goldwyn Follies, and Adventures of Marco Polo..and dated Rudy Vallee.

Oppos. the little plaque on the grass is where the Roach administration bldg. stood. They were building the pillars for elevated train tracks when I last saw it. Walk south (?) along Washington Blvd and turn left onto Landmark Street. The second bldg. you pass on your left was the site of Lak L&H. Continue walking along the street. The first 4 stages were where I last saw two large garages on the left. About 1/2 way up Landmark Street, that part of it sits right over the old backlot street set! It may end at a ten foot high wall, I'm not sure if it still does. That would be just before the school playground. That playground is where most of the claasic bits in some of the old silent L&H movies were filmed, and where "The Battle of the Century" pie fight took place! I havent been there in about ywo years now, so I don't know how much has changed, with the construction of the train station and tracks. When you walk back to Washington Blvd. turn left. The next low bldg. you come to on yur left stands on the site of the "Our Gang" Cafe, which was at one time the studio commissary!

I lived in north San Diego County when the studio was razed. That would have made me about 11 years old. There was a popular morning broadcast in LA that had cameras live on location showing equipment tearing down the buildings. One comment stuck in my mind was that it was to be replaced by a large shopping center. It turns out that was not the case. The same sort of thing happened with MGM studios and parts of Twentieth Century Fox Studios (when the studio had to sell some of its real estate also in the early 1960s due to box office flops, which was regretted later as the studio became profitable). It would have been great if the Hal Roach and MGM studios could have been saved as historical sites.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE! AND NOW PAT SAJAK AND VANNA WHITE!

THIS...IS JEOPARDY!

The front exterior of this building was used in some scenes of the 1960's TV series "Batman", as were others areas of the 40 acres backlot located just a few blocks behind and to the south of this location.

The famous BATCAVE set from the 1960's "BATMAN" TV series was said, according to reliable information, to be located on this stage.

Information I have found indicate that earlier seasons "My Favorite Martian" as well as all seasons of the "King Of Queens" TV shows were filmed on this stage.

Stalag 13 from Hogan's Hero's, Camp Henderson on Gomer Pyle USMC, as well as scenes from The Untouchables, Mayberry RFD and were also filmed at this site.

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Many classic first season Star Trek episodes were filmed on this part of the backlot, which was most well-known for being the location of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show. Star Trek episodes filmed there: Miri (August, 1966); The Return of the Archons (December, 1966); The City on the Edge of Forever (February, 1967).

Scenes of the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage", as well as the first season episode "Errand of Mercy" were filmed in the Arab Village portion of the backlot in December, 1964 and January, 1967 respectively.

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This is the building that was used for exterior shots of Flynn's arcade in the movie Tron.

Wolf (1994) was filmed here.

What ever u do do not go to this bar they rip u off with prices they have bar fights every weekend they gamble with dice and liars poker and the owner and manager are fucking dushbags!! stay away its going to get busted real soon..................

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