May 2025 - Featured Then and Now Filming Location Videos
For May 2025, we're featuring four videos which cover the years 1927 through 2009, with filming locations from Los Angeles to the Atlanta suburb of Mableton.
Tyler Perry - Madea Goes To Jail (2009)
Tyler Perry's series of Madea movies have been savaged by critics (and some segments of the public). But at their core, they're simply good old fashioned comedy with a few morality lessons added.
In this scene, Madea is going shopping at a strip mall, searching for a parking space. She sees a person pulling out and patiently waits. But an entitled woman cuts in front of Madea and steals the parking space! This is probably a situation that we can all relate to and Tyler Perry's Madea character does what we all would like to do in that situation: Takes revenge!
Like many of Perry's films, location filming was done a short distance away from his Atlanta studio complex. This scene was filmed in the nearby suburban town of Mableton, Georgia. The anchor store seen in the movie has changed, as well as the facade, however the rest of the strip mall appears to be unchanged as you'll see in this then and now filming location quick preview video.
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Laurel and Hardy - Love ‘Em And Weep (1927)
This early Laurel and Hardy movie has the comedy team not quite yet a comedy team playing the roles that we normally associate with Laurel and Hardy. The plot was reused and tailored for the Laurel and Hardy characters in 1931 for their movie Chickens Come Home.
The scene shown in this then and now filming location video appears at the end of the film and was filmed at a very "stately home" in the Lafayette Square historic district neighborhood in Los Angeles. As you'll see in this then and now movie location video, the house - and even some of the shrubbery - remains unchanged.
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The Little Rascals - Teacher’s Pet (1930)
Possibly the best Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie in the series, this film has all the elements that made The Little Rascals memorable: A perfect balance of comedy and pathos incorporated in a simple, relatable plot (the kids have a new teacher to start out the school year). Tying it all together are those wonderful background tunes written by Leroy Shield that have become synonymous with the series.
In this then and now movie location quick preview video, we see Miss Crabtree (the new teacher) dropping off her new student Jackie Cooper at the corner of La Cienega Blvd and Venice Blvd in Los Angeles. This scene gives us a great view of the Pacific Electric Railway viaduct at this intersection and as you'll see in the views of the intersection today, the viaduct is gone and the intersection is rather snarled with traffic - and a pedestrian nightmare!
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The Taxi Boys - Bring ‘Em Back A Wife (1933)
Pretty much unknown today, The Taxi Boys series is notable for the extensive amount of location filming incorporated into the movies.
While they didn't realize it at the time, director Del Lord and the film crew have created a perfect time capsule of downtown Culver City, California in 1933. In this filming locations then and now video, we get to see the downtown core including the historic Culver Hotel, the Pacific Electric Railway tracks running down the middle of Culver Blvd and the Southern California Telephone Company building. With the exception of the Pacific Electric Railway tracks, pretty much everything else you'll see is still present today.
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Chris