Suburbia Filming Locations - Then And Now - 1983 - Penelope Spheeris - Punk Rock - 80slife

[@javi__...]

Never thought anyone would actually attempt a suburbia location video. Amazing.

[@80sLife]

Thank you

[@llahhsoj7651]

Oh yeah! His mind is special as hell in a way.🤘🏻

[@vanfalcons]

Fear-I Don't Care About You. Great opening riff. I love this movie.

[@jasonsoutthere7733]

Summer of 87, several of us young punkers would all hang out at my bands practice space and constantly play the VHS if this movie. It was a dump and I miss it to tears!!!

[@Dvdconner77]

That’s really amazing you sought all that out. The individual whom played Evan in the film happened to be a very dear friend of mine. I met Billy about six months after the movie was made. We grew up in West Garden Grove, Ca. Bill and I remained close until his final days. I miss my friend dearly. He would have laughed immensely at your video…. All in a good way! Thanx for your efforts&i admire your passion for the scene!

[@ryblack5032]

my Cult Classic Fave Movie as a 15/16 year old Teen❤❤ at 46 .....30 years later I am watching Suburbia on my TUBI App Now, My Young Punk Life was Defined by this Classic❤ Thank YOU for Finding these Locations❤

[@stephenmorris8569]

My friends and I were extras in this movie!Nice trip down memory lane.1982 baby!

[@adamr149]

Fantastic job. Have this soundtrack on vinyl... kicks ass

[@LisaEnglish-y1j]

Lucky you. Looked everywhere but can't find it.

[@adamr149]

@@LisaEnglish-y1j got it as a gift about 25 years ago

[@sealgrl]

Like rewatching my life and my friends! I remember the opening of this movie. They gave away the posters. I had already run away from “Surburbia” by that point. We really were a tribe back then.

[@TheJohnnyFavorite]

I've seen this movie a hundred times, all the way back to my early teens. Me and my crew still quote and one line this movie. "No ears?" Great job on the locations, good video. I'm sure I'm not the first one but, that was FEAR. I don't care about You. Flea played with those guys if my memory serves.

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@gavinrabinowitz1255]

One of favourite movies ( and bands ) of all time. I still own the original VHS ! Absolutely awesome to see you do this video . R. I .P. Stevo

[@80sLife]

I really enjoyed doing this one. Thank you for watching

[@ACAPREDDUDE]

LOVE the original VHS cover/casing.... I first saw it on VHS, after smoking a joint, then bought it on DVD years later.... Talk about intense!

[@wiscorpio72]

I didn't know. The 2 kids killed survived on?

[@user-ve5ei2xe8h]

This brought back memories... Greetings from Germany.

[@palmtreeguy4706]

That movie was such a huge part of my youth. Thanks for this awesome video!

[@ourvwbus]

Saw this movie kind of by accident in the mid 80's when my dad hired a video player for the weekend (was a thing in the early days in the UK). Still go back to it as a key movie in my life. Great job finding the locations, though some may be lost they will be forever immortalised by those who know. Thanks

[@fishpondjoes2979]

Awesome! I still have my VHS!!

[@80sLife]

Awesome!

[@iamstrangeways]

Solid video man. Suburbia is THEE punk movie! I read the scenes where the dogs attack the baby is also in Montebello which makes sense since so much was filmed in the Montebello/Downey/Norwalk area. Cheers.

[@80sLife]

Thank you. Yeah it's supposed to be on Montebello Blvd north of Lincoln. We searched that area multiple times and just couldn't match it up. I do believe it's somewhere in the area, but I didn't include it since I couldn't confirm it

[@TheWalkmanRotation]

One of my favorite movies. Ever.

[@whiskeybenthellbound4867]

One of my top favorite movies. Richard hung himself

[@nahuilegorreta6572]

This is great! Chris Pederson the actor that played Jack turned up in Platoon, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Point Break and a few other movies. I can't wait til you do Repo Man 😆

[@formicaforever]

Also I night of the Comet!!!

[@jasonmisfit3169]

Check out Chris's band THE PATRIOTS? Land Of The Free? EP GREAT STUFF

[@MPWEST83]

Chris is one of my favorites

[@Karldavidjensen]

This is amazing. Thank you so much for doing this! Really appreciated.

[@robcop993]

On your recommendation, Kurt, I caught this movie on TUBI last night. I enjoyed it. I didn't mind the amateur acting from the young cast. I thought it worked very well in conveying the homeless kids' fear and desperation. I grew up in the 70s (mostly) and my only recollection of the punk scene was watching the Ramones on the Uncle Floyd Show. They would appear occasionally, lip-syncing, on a (long ago) defunct UHF channel out of Newark, New Jersey. Back in the late 80s, however, my brother did bump into Joey Ramone in an apt. building in the East Village. He was shocked to learn that Joey lived right down the hall from my aunt. So was I. Small world, huh?

[@80sLife]

Wow, that's amazing. Imagine that. And I'm so glad that you enjoyed the movie. I know its not for everyone, so I'm glad you liked it.

[@rubygirl214]

Excellent job! I just went to a screening last week at NoHo Laemmle. Penelope Spherris was there and some of the actors. About casting amateur actors, she said “I could teach punks to be actors a lot easier than I could teach actors to be punks” She knows what’s up!

[@erikreedy9397]

Finally someone does a location find on this one! You have my gratitude, amigo, this is terrific!

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much!

[@surroundsister]

Awesome movie, just watched it, and a great recap of locations here, thanks a lot!

[@chrisstange9198]

I love the "get a job" sound bit they inserted when he is sitting on the sidewalk. I always thought that was funny when I used to watch this on VHS. Thank you for all of your hard work recognizing this classic movie. I would imagine people sometimes ask why you are shooting video at their houses and have no idea that a movie was filmed there.

[@frankrios4584]

Great job! I always wondered where those locations were in the movie. Thanks to you, I now know.

[@TescoVee]

I grew up not far away from where most of this was filmed. I can remember when those neighborhoods lay empty & abandoned. Can also remember when the freeway construction really ramped up and when they filmed portions of "Speed" before the freeway went into service.

[@Ledespencer]

fantastic trip down memory lane. I loved that film growing up and loved my time in LA

[@speelbergoMF]

This is my absolute favorite punk rock movie growing up and for a long time with me my top five movies of all time.

[@diamondmotors]

Than you so much for your work on this ride to nostalgia.....one of my favorite old movies

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you for watching

[@michaeld5457]

Great job ! You should be a private investigator ! One of my all time favorites. Along with The Boys Next Door-also directed by Penelope Spheeris !

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much!

[@hedonisticmisanthrope]

I will never know how the hell you find all of these places! Insane - Ive always wanted to visit these places! Thank you!

[@aupsychobilly]

I don’t care about you. FEAR Great vid...I grew up in Huntington Beach in that era. I remember that neighborhood along the 605...This Movies/Music along with all the other bands or the soundtrack of my life

[@-Ricky_Spanish-]

Excellent, one of my favorite movies ever. Maybe more popular than you thought, over 16k now!

[@AgentXXSmith]

Gotta love the continuity - Frito Lay truck sitting in the same lot then and now. Magical.

[@80sLife]

Right?

[@bojcio]

@@80sLife that was crazy, what are the odds?

[@AdamtheGrey02]

I've never seen the movie but I always love filming location videos and the nostalgia that goes with it even if they're just before and after pics.

[@58spitfirerocker]

Holy shit dude, how amazing is your vid! I can’t believe you found this stuff!. This movie ment so much to me and my gang as kids in the 80’s. I found this by accident, thanks!!

[@80sLife]

Thank you, I really appreciate!

[@UncleChuckApproved]

Cool video, that neighborhood wasn't abandoned, only the houses were the freeway is now. I still live on Adoree and Stanbridge, I was on that movie set most every day, I used to stash beer in my fridge for skinner, peg leg and others who didn't end up in the movie. I used to sit in an avocado tree and watch them film, flea used to bum cigarettes off me. As kids we ruled those vacant houses they were are playground. Dirt bike tracks, jumps, we would take plywood off of the houses and 2x4's from the garages and make bike jumps and skateboard ramps and tree houses. And the TR house was on stanbridge, you're standing on Corrigan and Angell one street over. I am on the other side of the freeway.

[@Qbort.]

I tried so hard to find some of these locations and had no luck. You did an excellent job here!

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@enriquecruz1201]

This is so sick!!.. caught me off guard, clicked right away! Thank You !!

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you

[@texmerlot]

So cool to see Johnnie's diner, went there a few times. I'm glad it's not torn down.Thanks for the video!! 🤘

[@80sLife]

Thanks for watching

[@dwood138]

FEAR ! This is awesome. Been waiting for this one !

[@80sLife]

Thank you

[@juniorsgv88]

I Don't care about You!

[@diamondback2085]

Fucking great movie. Showed my daughters it when they asked what it was like growing up in the 80's as a punk

[@BunnymanVids]

Very cool. I saw the movie when it first came out. Always think about it when I see Flea

[@davefilms345]

Absolutely brillaint, another film I haven't seen strangely enough. Can't wait for the next one

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@mikepayne2011]

So rad you made this video. Well done, seeing my hometown then and now is awesome. The movie has always held a special place in my heart.

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. I really enjoyed putting this one together. Thank you!

[@philmakris8507]

MAN!! Crucial does it again 👏

[@80sLife]

Thank you!!

[@lukelarramendy3396]

Bad ass. Thanks for making this one. Love Suburbia

[@alexarnold174]

Thanks for taking the time to go back and look at the filming locations. So neat that most of the locations are still standing. Great movie in any event. Love your videos. Movie is currently on Amazon Prime.

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@mascottie]

I can’t believe I missed out on this all of my life up until a few months ago. I had always been a fan of the 90s Suburbia movie. I loved this one tho. Will watch again

[@hecticeclectic6544]

Great job. One of the TR kids Joe Schmoe played by a young Wade Walston, went on to become the bassist for the punk band US Bombs.

[@80sLife]

Yep, absolutely. Saw him play many times. Thank you

[@matthewodom6032]

No shit. "Moving out again huh Joe?" "Yeah, later days"

[@haikat4]

@@matthewodom6032 I thought he said "later gays" lol

[@pulledtrigger]

@@haikat4 same, the nonchalant feedback made it funnier

[@keithinadhd6693]

Much appreciated! This movie meant a lot to me growing up. Its great to see others love it as much as I do.

[@MultiDefleppard]

Fantastic how you managed to do all your research on this film and all the locations...this film reminds me of my youth... This film really means a lot to me

[@bears2248]

I first seen this movie back in 91 when I rented it at Blockbuster Video. It had a different artwork on the VHS tape and I really enjoyed it a lot. It was so cool to see flea in his first film, the music was so awesome. Anyway great video location and have a great weekend.

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@specialse]

Loved this movie when it came out , and watched it many times. great sound track . interesting video .

[@HubND80]

That whole scene (besides where the car broke down) where Jack and Evan are talking before arriving to the T.R. house is all filmed on Stewart & Gray Rd in Downey. The scene where the girls say they want to eat at Frisco's, the Frisco's they where talking about used to be on Woodruff Bl in Downey, it's now a Pete's Burger not that they ever show it Lol. Thanks for clarifying where the T.R. house was, been searching for that one for over a decade!

[@kp4588]

Awesome video man. Your street cred is through the roof. Also, the soundtrack for this movie is killer. Pick it up if you haven’t already.

[@80sLife]

Haha. Thank you very much

[@eghamze7313]

My dad used to own the Kit Kat club that was in the movie.

[@80sLife]

Oh how cool

[@geoaltman9344]

Wow, so cool! I grew up going to Downey to visit my nana and grampa for holidays. never wouldve guessed it was the spot for so much of the movie!

[@markb8568]

Thanks for making this, I last saw the film 10+ years ago, great to see what the locations look like today.

[@fernandocastro1660]

Thanks mate. Just loves this movie when I was a teen.

[@addicted2baseballrgd21]

Bravo, I've been waiting for this one. You also exceeded my expectations.

[@80sLife]

Awesome! Thank you!!

[@bronxsea]

Wow awesome. Thx for going through all that trouble and filming this. Love the since I was a kid. My older bro, sis, and I would always watch this movie and cry at the end. Recently watch this movie and was taken back. Long live LA punk.

[@waynestallings3970]

It’s amazing to me that no one, even Jack from TSOL, knows where the live show scenes were filmed. Any punk rocker that was immersed in the Hollywood scene in 80-82 knows that was Godzilla’s. Lots of great shows there even though it was short lived.

[@cod8140]

Very cool!

[@rubygirl214]

That was the one on Vineland and San Fernando in the Valley, right?

[@macaholic100]

Great movie! I had a special anniversary edition on VHS some years ago. First time I saw D.I. was in this movie. Richard hung himself.

[@MrJuniorsgv13]

as a kid we used to goto Norwalk (we lived in Glendora,Ca.)for church. so my parents always drove past the duck/ chicken farm and taking the 605 fwy south. we always saw the houses on the right all abandoned. this was around 1985/86. btw there used to A Nazi HQ in El Monte which flew a giant Nazi flag.

[@GregBiggsDETHKIDS666]

Yo that's crazy you say that my friend that is from El Monte said that's the reason a bunch of the punk kids had their G older brothers start hanging around more and coming to shows because of a growing Nazi presence resulting in violence so they had to start protecting each other and resultingly a lot of the kids that were punx ended up just being in the gang because of the ongoing clashes...that is nuts though still someone used to rock that in El Monte! Damn.

[@TheYitzach]

Great doc matey. Love Suburbia, wonderful low budget film truly marvellous, also has a great soundtrack, the characters were very relatable to my mates and I, way back in the 80s. Happy daze.

[@daviddevonshire7213]

Great work finding the locations 👍

[@80sLife]

Thank you!!

[@Nassuklovni]

I saw this movie for the first time last year. Felt sad to think about that many of these places propably don't exist anymore, let alone that great scene of US hardcore and punk. But it was nice to see, that some things have stayd the same. I live in Finland and it would propably take me a lifetime to visit all the cool locations, if I can visit LA someday. Luckily there's the Internet and guys like you, who document this stuff to people who are unable to witness them first hand, at least for now. Thank you for the videos.

[@80sLife]

🙂 it's my pleasure. Thank you for watching.. and I hope you get to visit these places in person some day

[@virusinternationalmotionpi2477]

You do a great job on these location videos. Enjoyed the gleaming the cube as well as this one. Cutting back and forth multiple times to show then and now is good. Do it more. Not enough location guys do that imo. Keep up the good work. Very much enjoying your videos and effort. Thank you!!

[@80sLife]

Thank you!!

[@georgieramone]

I Don't Care About You! One of my favs

[@crustyyyyyyyyy]

The lays truck was insane

[@grayarea51]

So rad that you got that shot of Dark Realm Records right there on Alameda and Downey Ave 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@southernBoarder1]

I’ve seen this movie no less than 22,000 times. Thanks for adding it to your list. Great job, but what happened to Jennifer clay (Sheila in the movie)? Not a lot of info about her out there. Oh I did recognize you were playing a FEAR song but couldn’t call the name till I saw it in the comments. Good job with that too.

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much. Yeah I would love to know what's going on with her and some of the other cast. Maybe another video...

[@MoreThan_Bob1776]

This was fucking awesome! 🚬🐢👍

[@xanderx8661]

The movie that changed it all for me when I was 13. Growing up in Downey makes it even more special 🙏

[@markbrenes5189]

I still have to watch this flick Kurt . Awesomeness with this episode ! I definitely have to watch Suburbia now .

[@80sLife]

Thank you. I hope you like it

[@johngillespie3409]

free for the punk rockers on yt kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYHIm4xuq7-KhZY

[@jundukes]

Brilliant work. Thanks for this.

[@TheBatwave]

Thank you for making this! This took a lot of homework! Great movie!

[@paulv.6040]

great vid... one of my all-time fave movies. Thanks for doing the work. =)

[@Tr0nzoid]

I remember wanting to see this for a long time, and with the internet, was able to buy the videotape in 2002. I still have it.

[@freemandiaz5123]

I lived across the street from Racquet Mountain! Down the way was Montebello Blvd where the dog and baby scene took place. The phone booth was a prop. Very cool vid! Thanks!

[@repromark]

I love these videos. great job!

[@lizree5480]

Hi from Germany! Thanks for your efforts to show those exact places which occured in the movie. I loved and still love the punk scene and the music. I was 13 at the time I first got in contact with punk music...and you nevee loose your teenage memories!

[@racenrave00]

So many memories. I grew up about 2 blocks from the vacant houses. I just watched it again for probably the hundredth time a couple days ago.

[@LMH1430]

This is my favorite video! I was obsessed with Suburbia. I got to ask someone recently what happened with most of these guys and it was such an interesting conversation!

[@bassage13]

I probably watched this movie 100 times when I was 13, around 1990.

[@mghc7]

Didn’t even finish watching this and this gets a thumbs up

[@80sLife]

Thank you

[@Toecutter426]

When I first saw this movie, when they show the abandoned houses my dad goes "I used to drive by those every day to work" lol which I then realized how close this all was (I grew up in Huntington Beach, the Rikk Agnew song Surfside is about my neighborhood) Great video. This must have been fun

[@80sLife]

It was alot of fun to put together. Thank you for watching.

[@randomchaos5139]

Very cool and well done video. Brought back memories. I first ordered this movie on VHS when I was in High School in the 80s, from Sam Goodys at the local Mall lol. I watched it countless times. I now have it on DVD I got on Ebay a few years ago. I've met Casey Royer from D.I. a couple times, really cool guy, they did a show in Houston in 2014 or so, I took my girlfriend to it and she never seen D.I. and now she loves the band. It is so cool also that a lot of location for the movie are still the same, and I got to get to California one day to go shop at the J Mart lol R.I.P. to Skinner, who passed away a couple years ago.

[@MPWEST83]

No! Skinner passed away?! That makes me so sad :(

[@LisaEnglish-y1j]

Any more info on how he died?

[@EstebanRamirez-gw3yu]

3:05 one of the punks, to the far left I believe is to be the bassist to the unseen. His names Tripp Underwood. If I'm not mistaken. Dude but awesome video. I love suburbia man. It's such a raw/authentic punk rock movie 🙌

[@robotorch]

Amazing, thank you for this

[@mksolid82]

I was only 2 when this movie came out. So I missed the whole punk scene, but this video was a real blast. You should keep making as many of these as you can. It’s a great escape.

[@80sLife]

Thank you so much

[@ryanrothadventures2472]

Super rad video. Thanks for the good detective work

[@balanchuk]

Fantastic! ... saw this film back in the day , in Edmonton Alberta Canada ... maybe 1986(?) , well yeah a hundred quotable lines and big hit in the PuNk scene here too ! Lotsa laffs and it's cool to see the locations , thanks so much 🙏

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you for watching

[@PickleBread355]

Love this movie!!!! Used to have a Tshirt I stole from my dad. Used to write TR on all my shit lol

[@LarryAguilar-d8t]

Great job great Movie people hardly saw , flea was great in it

[@atakra]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@80sLife]

Thank you!

[@heffphilat]

The house in the opening shot looks like identical architecture to Tor Johnson's house, where Bela Lugosi was filmed by Ed Wood. It was insert footage used in the movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Anyway, thank you for this video!

[@80sLife]

My pleasure. Thank you for watching

[@briandouglas1182]

I dated a girl in the mid 90's who lived in the blue house at the end of the street. Gniess Ave and orange st. I remember her mentioning a movie that was filmed on that street. Now I know which movie. Thank you kurt!

[@InlineSkaterDad-]

Great work. Once again, your videos don’t show up in my feed. And I’m subscribed, and I hit the bell. Dammit.

[@80sLife]

That makes me really sad. KZbin isn't doing its job. Especially if you are watching my videos, they should start showing up on your feed

[@InlineSkaterDad-]

You’re back now, and I’m all caught up. Although you went missing for about two months. It’s not just my feed you weren’t showing up in. It was also my notification list, for some reason.