Back to the Future

I had no idea this filming location was just 26 miles from where I live…

Unfortunately it was just sold. Apparently it’s been a “dead mall” for some time.

https://lamag.com/real-estate/back-to-the-future-mall-puente-hills-sells

That's pretty cool. It's always fun to see someplace you "know" in a movie.

A few years back I watched a forgotten 80s slasher flick called "Silent Madness" (don't bother looking it up, it was terrible!) that shot several scenes at my alma mater, Wagner College in Staten Island, NY. The movie was made a few years before I was a student there. I knew nothing about it till years later when I saw the movie on Tubi. Suddenly I was like "Hey, wait a minute... that building looks familiar... so does that one!... what the hell?"

Speaking of the Back to the Future mall, I've seen that movie countless times over the years but it was only when I revisited it with my kids when they were young that I caught this gag:

At the beginning of the movie when Doc shows Marty the time machine for the first time, the mall is called the "Twin Pines Mall."

When Marty goes back to 1955 in the DeLorean, he crashes into and destroys one of the pine trees at the site that will eventually become the mall.

So when he returns to 1985 towards the end of the film, it's now the "Lone Pine Mall."

Fat Freddy wrote:

Speaking of the Back to the Future mall, I've seen that movie countless times over the years but it was only when I revisited it with my kids when they were young that I caught this gag:

At the beginning of the movie when Doc shows Marty the time machine for the first time, the mall is called the "Twin Pines Mall."

When Marty goes back to 1955 in the DeLorean, he crashes into and destroys one of the pine trees at the site that will eventually become the mall.

So when he returns to 1985 towards the end of the film, it's now the "Lone Pine Mall."

Yep!

That’s a cool Easter egg that people may have overlooked originally.