Los Angeles Film Locations From the '70s & '80s

The upscale homes in the exclusive Bixby Knolls neighborhood in Long Beach appear to be favorites for filmmakers. Among the area’s several homes immortalized on film is Ferris Bueller’s house, a location tha...

"Golden Girls" was one of the wholesome '80s sitcoms about a group of elderly women living together in Miami. The house (which in the sitcom was owned by character Blanche Devereaux) is actually located in p...

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is probably one of the top 10 music videos of all time making zombies cool almost 30 years before "The Walking Dead." This is the exact location of the dance scene in the last fe...

Though the exterior shots of the Ghostbusters Firehouse were of another firehouse in New York, the interior shots of the Ghostbusters’ offices were shot here in L.A.s historical Firehouse 23. It has also ser...

Happy Days fans will remember this as the Cunningham family’s house where dropout greaser The Fonz (Henry Winkler) supposedly rented an upstairs room and gave the straight-laced family some lessons in cool.

If you saw MJ’s Thriller as a kid in the ‘80s, it probably freaked you out more than you’d care to admit. We invite you to check out the dilapidated house that couldn’t withstand a gang of pop-music crazed d...

North Genesee Avenue doesn't have quite the same ring as Elm Street. Pictures before the renovation show the house to be pretty much what it was in the film - a nightmare. It's almost unrecognizable from its...

Perfect for any American road trip is a stop at the Griswold's home from the 1983 movie. Oddly enough the house was located by a couple of movie buffs and the information spread throughout the internet. The ...

The Brady Bunch house is easily one of the most recognizable homes in TV history. Today it’s partly obscured by a tree, some hedges, and a white iron and brick gate, but it’s still unmistakable. Go for a gan...

Set in Korea, shot in Calabasas, the iconic TV series M*A*S*H lives on in the hearts of fans as well as this lovingly reconstructed set where the original once stood. Alas, the famed mobile army surgical com...

The SFV would have become world-famous even without the help of one extraterrestrial, but E.T. sure helped this L.A. County region seal its place in film history. This Spanish-style house with the terracotta...

The famous San Fernando Valley has been the subject of songs (Tom Petty) and movies ("Valley Girl"), and is also the home to billionaires and celebrities. But perhaps its most sentimental asset is being the ...

This split-level house was only used for its exterior as most of the indoor scenes were shot at the studios. Apart from maintenance and a light face-lift, the house hasn't changed too much from its appearanc...