There are so many movie shooting locations in the Bay Area, I wouldn't know her to start.
The end of Dirty Harry where he throws his badge into the quarry pond. My cousins and I were watching the scene behind some barriers and when the crew cleared out we dove into that pond looking for that badge. Didn't work out, those gravel quarry ponds are really deep. It was a ramshackle old place called the Hutchinson Sand and Gravel company. Not too far from San Quentin prison. I was 10 years old. That water was cold and slimy.In the original "Dirty Harry", Clint Eastwood delivers a bag of ransom money along a circuitous route in and south of San Francisco.
The trail, covered by foot, bus and street car is shown with continuity.....all the way to Mt. Davidson.
In 1975 I took my 4 "new cousins" along that route; by foot, bus and street car.
They were too young. I knew it was cool; still do.
There's tons of Blues Brothers locations still around, and a lot which are now gone. Coincidently, just yesterday I drove by the alley where they had built the orphanage where the brothers were raised (in the movie, it was just a false front of a building). The alley still looks the same only much cleaner.See if they like Blues Brothers any better
LA area is like that, especially Burbank. As you get older you're like, "oh ya, I know that place".When you live in Northern NJ everywhere you look was in a movie/ TV show.
The original Toxic Avenger and now Jules were filmed here.
Which is why Nat'l Lampoons Family Vacation is cool. The La Plata Hwy pretty much looks the same as does the Summit of Wolf Creek and the rest stop outside South Fork.I live in an area that has a lot of movie filming locations ( Fried Green Tomatoes, Footloose, Driving Miss Daisy and about 100 more). After a couple of years, the places you see in movies don't look much like that anymore. Either things have grown up, things have been repainted, new landscaping, etc.