Eighties Movie Locations That Really Exist, Movies Beginning with F

This is a list of places that are in movies, but have a real life counterpart. Please try and be as specific as possible in describing where something is and when it appears in a movie. I don't want just city names where filming took place so much as I want landmark type buildings.

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The hospital at the end Brian Brown's character escapes from at the end is a real hospital. Or at least it was. It's St. Mary's Hospital in Orange,NJ. Since filming ended it has become a nursing home. When they were filming it though the staff had a very hard time trying to keep it all under wraps, patients kept going to the windows to try to see what the commotion and the lights were all about and they had to do a few takes because of it.
Fandango 1985
This movie had a sceen filmed in Tulsa. It was a plane that flew under a bridge it was on I-244. Do you know what bridge of where I could look for this info. Thanks Renn
"Pizza Guy" who delivered Jeffs Pizza, is located on Moorpark st. in Studio City, CA.
Brad and Stacys House is located at 24124 Welby way in Canoga Park, CA.
All of the inside mall scenes were filmed in the Sherman Oaks Galleria before it was renovated in the early 90's. Note that in April 1999 they closed the mall for lack of customers. Also the scene in which Stacy Hamilton goes with the older guy on the date to the dug out, it was filmed at Sherman Oaks-Van Nuys Park.
Fast Times in Ridgemont High
All of the high school scenes were filmed in Van Nuys High School, Van Nuys, CA. The german restaraunt the date scene was in still exists in van nuys and looks almost exactly the same.
The roller coaster scene was shot at Rye Playland, an amusement part in Rye, New York. The name of the roller coaster is the Dragon Coaster. It is over 70 years old and one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in existence.
Ferris Beuler's Day Off
The house that Ferris lived in is located on country club drive in long beach CAlifornia and in just north of roosevelt road. and the park in the background of the end of the movie is located on country club drive at the end of bixby road.
Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, IL (John Hughes's alma mater), the shots of the school are when Ferris picks up Sloan from school and with the gym class running after Ferris tells Cameron, "We would be in gym class now."
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
All of the High School scene's were shot at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois. If you were to go there today the school looks exactlly the same.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Ferris runs through a backyard with two girls laying on lawn chairs. The backyard as well as some of the houses in the ā€oerunning homeā€¯ scenes are on Butternut Lane in Northbrook, Ill. A House Ferris runs through is located at 2067 Butternut Lane Northbrook, Ill.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Ferris Bueller House is located at 4160 Country Club drive. Long Beach, CA.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
The Save Ferris Water tower is located off Ceder road next to Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, Ill.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Cameron Fryes House is located at 360 Beech Street in Highland Park, ILL.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Katie Bullers Real-Estate Office is located at 583 Chestnut Street in Winnetka, Ill.
Ferris Buellers Day Off
The Orange Sculpture that Cameron, & Solone walk by, is located at the corner of Dearbon, & Adams in downtown Chicago, Ill.
Ferris Buller's Day Off
The Parade Scene Was Shot Near Daley Plaza On Randolph Street In Chicago Illinios.i Know I Was There And The Parade Was A Actual Parade It Was The German Day Parade.
Ferris Bullers Day Off
The Beach scene was filmed at Glencoe Beach in Glencoe, Ill.
It really is in Iowa, the town is called Dyersville.
Dwyersville, Iowa - The farm house is real and the owners live there. The baseball field is still there because, "People will most definitely come." And, they are still showing up, after all these years, to experience the wonder of the "Field of Dreams."
The Final Conflict - Omen 3
locations for this film - 1. Deserted church on the moor where priests ambush who they think is Damien thorne was filmed at Roche Rock, in the village of Roche, Mid Cornwall. Some artistic licence was used with it though - other filming for those scenes - Goss Moor close by the A30 road from Bodmin. 2. Pyrford Court in Surrey was used for Omen 1 (ambassador Thornes house)- some aspects used in final C. 3. Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire used for finale scenes. Beautiful place - well worth a visit.
The hideout cabin was located on Lake Lure in NC. Drew Barrymore was just a little girl in this movie.
This was filmed in a small town called Hope in Britsh Columbia (Canada).
Flamingo Kid
This movie had a lot of its scenes filmed at a beach club called The Silver Gull in Breezy Point, Queens, NY. They also shot the police scene in the local precinct on East 93 St.
The entire movie is set and filmed in Pittsburgh, PA. The dance school that Alex auditions for is set at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
Flashdance and Gung-Ho
Both were filmed in Pittsburgh and feature a lot of scenes in Steel Mills
The house and Rolling Hills (Grandmother's house) used in this is Crane's Castle located in Ipswich, MA.
The grain mill used in the movie is located at Lehi Utah just south of Salt Lake City
The high school in "Footloose" is Payson High School in Payson, Utah.
The ice-skating rink used in Fresh Horses was at Kings Island amusement park (now Paramount's Kings Island). They used to have a winterfest where the main fountain was frozen over...I think it's been discontinued.
This film was shot in and around Cincinatti Ohio, and many of the locations were used insted of building sets. The main one off the top of my head is the restaurant they eat in. It is not too far from the college campus.
Friday The 13Th parts 1 & 2 were filmed in, and only in Blairstown New Jersey. A small town, with a population of 5,750 people, that's main claim to fame is a Prep School Blair Academy. Blair Academy is a "wrestling factory" has won 19 Nationap Prep Wrestling Championships and 81 Individual National Prep Champions since 1982. Another cool fact about Blairstown is that it has one of the last one - lane bridge's in the Northeast. Besides Blair Academy, Blairstown it is one of those one horse towns that you only see American cars ( I swear). In the movie you see the Blairstown Diner, which was also used in many commercials for some reason it has that perfect American feel to it. Blairstown sits right near the boarder of Pennsylvania covering the northern slope of the Kittatinny Mountains, the higheest mountains in NJ and is a 30 minute drive from the Poconos. Above it said it is filmed in Hope but Hope is the town next to Blairstown.
Friday The 13th Part 3
SAUGUS,CA AND GREEN VALLEY,CA
Camp Nobebosco--Scout Camp in Blairstown, NJ. Camped there as a Scout. Made for some good campfire stories.
All locations were filmed in Blairstown, New Jersey, and Camp NoBeBoSco, New Jersey.
From what I understand in the start of the movie when they are driving in the jeep that road is a road that runs past Cranberry park in Norwalk CT.
Friday the 13th was not filmed in Norwalk CT but it was filmed in either Stanhope or Hope, NJ as it says on a truck in the movie and on a sign at an entrance to a cemetary I believe.
Ft. Knox, Kentucky was used to film some of the basic training scenes for the film. The base still has alot of the old barracks, most are boarded up.
The town of Redbud, for the most part, is actually Townshend, Vermont. The gazebo near the church was built for the movie and then later given to the town as a gift.


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