Location #6: Down the ramp
California Incline, Santa Monica, California, United States
Location #7: Santa Rosita Beach State Park
Peck Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
Location #8: The big “W”
5500 Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
Location #9: Driving by 3 houses
At Malibu Road & Bayshore Drive, Malibu, California, United States
Location #10: Capt. Culpepper stops at a garage
Near Lakeshore Court, Oxnard, California, United States
Is location number 7 gone? My wife and I tried tracking it down today but can find no sign of it? Also the location of the big W is listed as being opened as a museum, but I’ve gotten no response to many many phone calls trying to arrange a visit. Any thoughts?
It does not exist as we see it in the movie. Best thing I could do is provide you a link to that picture.
The Big W now is private now.
Unfortunately It’s a private residence and the owners got tired of requests to view the property. I wouldn’t hold my breath in getting a return call.
when I visited there, I could not get in….there was no response from the owners whom a wrote a letter to.
I had to use Google Earth and Street View to get details. See my Google albums iammmmw and Its A Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World.
Ron Kawal Google Photos.
ron@kawal.net
The spot I’d like to know about is the one where jimmy durrante “ goes sailing right off”. What highway and spot? Does anyone know?
Greatest movie ever made!
That’s on hwy 74, about 10 or 12 miles up the hill from the intersection of hwy 111 and hwy 74 in Palm desert
California Hwy 74 on the level below the Vista Point.
See Ron kawal’s Google Photo albums
Where he kicked the can was Valley Center, CA
He really Kick the bucket.
Just downhill from Milepost 88.29 on Hwy 74 – Palms to Pines Hwy
Highway 74 above Palm Desert California. in fact the first 40 minutes is shot on that road. I know this because I take it all the time and I live in Palm Desert
It’s at the 2nd main curve below the Vista Point.
# 11 – The old pontoon bridge did not have a name , it’s replacement was called the Gerald Desmond Bridge , the pontoon bridge was a 6 month temporary bridge put up in 1944 , wasn’t replaced until 1968 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Desmond_Bridge
i thought hardware store inside was sandiego hardware?
The interior of the hardware store was built on a soundstage at Universal Studios.
Outside of hardware store was Imperial Hardware – 5th Street & Long Beach Blvd.
Where is the location where Phil Silvers loses his car in the river ?
The Kern River on Highway 178.
Does anyone know what that pink/cream building centered in the bottom photo of #14 is? The one at the intersection between East Ocean Boulevard and South Linden Avenue. I can’t find any info on it anywhere.