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The Rockford Files - FILMING LOCATIONS - Episode: Joey Blue Eyes (1976) - Long Beach California - Hotel Del Mar - Dr. Vail Dentist Long Beach 1st Street - Silver Dollar - Roi Tan Bar - Long Beach City Hall East 100 Long Beach Blvd - Biltmore Apts. - Long Beach Blvd Greyhound Bus Depot - Midway - Al's - Globe Cleaners - International Tower - Long Beach's THE PIKE - Murguders salt water taffy stand - Eddie Fontaine - Michael Ansara - Suzanne Charny - The Chop House 4420 West Lakeside Drive Burbank - Toluca lake

A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO Vahram Keshishian

for leading me to these filming locations!

 ABOVE & BELOW PHOTOS: Intersection of Long Beach Blvd & 1st Street in Long Beach, CA.  Hotel Del Mar - Silver Dollar - Roi Tan Bar / Lounge

ABOVE PHOTO: Angel is grabbed by a thug outside 100 Long Beach Blvd. - Today this building is used by the City of Long Beach as CITY HALL EAST and also the Long Beach Police Department.

ABOVE PHOTO: The image is actually two scene shots merged together of intersection of Long Beach Blvd & 1st Street in Long Beach, CA. 

The large building on the far left: Biltmore Apts

ABOVE PHOTO: Jim Rockford's car takes off on Long Beach Blvd. on the 100 block. On the right is an old unidentified hotel, on the left is a restaurant and Greyhound Bus Station depot.

BELOW PHOTO: Looking for help on the full name of the "Al's" business... the sign has a name before Al's but can't make it out.... Could it be Famous Al's??? Also there is cocktails place on the below right side photo. It was right next to Globe Cleaners - The sign has 8 letters in its upright sign. 

ABOVE FOUR PHOTOS: A ride down 1st Street in Long Beach, CA 1976

Businesses seen in this episode: Midway, Al's, Globe Cleaners, Dr. Vail Dentist, among others.

ABOVE PHOTO: Jim racing down an alley, in the background the round building is the International Tower in Long Beach, CA - as shown below.

ABOVE PHOTO: Michael Ansara, who died in 2013, played the tough former mobster Joey Blue Eyes - Joseph DiMinna 

ABOVE PHOTO: Eddie Fontaine returned to another episode of the Rockford Files as mob enforcer Sweet Tooth London. He is seen riding the Ferris Wheel at Long Beach - The Pike with Jim Rockford.

ABOVE THREE PHOTOS: Businesses seen - DUCE CLUB 201, Long Beach's SECURITY BANK BUILDING

ABOVE PHOTO: The very beautiful Suzanne Charny played Joey Blue Eyes daughter Paulette DiMinna.

 

Joey Blue Eyes restaurant in this episode was actually THE CHOP HOUSE 4420 West Lakeside Drive, Burbank, California, USA

The Rockford Files - Episode: Local Man Eaten by Newspaper (1978) ANOTHER FILMING LOCATION MYSTERY SOLVED THANKS TO BILL ANDERSON - Alan Wann's Karate - Georgiana Building Built 1932 - McCormick & Schmick's Restaurant 3500 Olive Ave in Burbank, CA

 

THIS IS THE CORNER OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE & OLIVE AVE (3500 Olive Ave)

in Burbank, CA

The building seen in the below photos has been torn down and replaced with a large high rise which houses the McCormick & Schmick's Restaurant 

SEE ABOVE PHOTO

 

ABOVE PHOTO: Bo Hopkins playing John Cooper exits out of the building seen in the above photo to meet with Jim Rockford.

Here is what we know about this location. The address plates read 3516 & 3516 1/2

Alan Wann's Karate Studios can be seen in the storefront marked 3516 1/2

A barber shop can be seen in the far storefront

There is a Gulf Gas Station sign about a half a block away down the street

This intersection is controlled by a traffic control signal

There is  sign on the building wall that reads:

Georgiana Building - Built 1932

BUT THIS MAY BE A PROP SIGN

 

CAN ANYBODY HELP WITH THE ADDRESS OF THIS FILMING LOCATION?

 

 

The Rockford Files - Episode: Local Man Eaten by Newspaper (1978) FILMING LOCATION: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California

ABOVE PHOTO: Two mob thugs bring John Cooper (played by Bo Hopkins) and Jim Rockford to a cemetery to meet up with a mob boss. In the background of this photo you can see a large stone grave marker which is marked BONYNGE.

This grave marker belongs to Dr. Charles William Bonynge, Sr & family at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

ABOVE PHOTO: Was located on FIND A GRAVE http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38738484 and it matches the grave marker seen in this episode of the Rockford Files. The photo of the young woman is Mary Ann Bonynge Brainerd.

Family links:  Parents:   Walter Alfred Bonynge (1855 - 1924)   Mary Ann Davis Bonynge (1853 - 1915)  Spouse:   Juliette Estelle Phelps Bonynge (1881 - 1951)  Children:   Thomas William Bonynge (1912 - 1979)*   Charles William Bonynge (1915 - 1954)*   Mary Ann Bonynge Brainerd (1917 - 1978)* *Calculated relationship

Burial: Inglewood Park Cemetery Inglewood Los Angeles County California, USA Plot: Lot 430 Plot Sunny Slope Grave 5

UPDATE: Rockford Files - Episode: Deadlock in Parma (1980) Parma is actually Wrightwood CA - Don Oster Realty - Wrightwood Village Realty - Tehachapi Belle Restaurant, East Valley Family YMCA in North Hollywood & THE YODELER RESTAURANT - 6046 Park Drive, Wrightwood, CA

UPDATE: Bill Anderson has pegged the location of the YMCA & Bishop Bus Stop filming location - Look below for the update

ABOVE IMAGE: A small blooper - The above images show Jim Rockford at his motel door. The room only has one entry/exit door. In one scene the door has a deadbolt lock above the doorknob and wood paneling on the wall. The next scene has the door with just a doorknob and plasterboard walls.

 

 

 

 

ABOVE THREE IMAGES: This episode is about saving the park with the bell from being sold by the City of Parma. Somebody from Wrightwood California is going to have to let me know if that really was or is such a park in their town.

UPDATE ON THE BELL'S LOCATION

12/07/2013 - Thanks to many of the kind residents of Wrightwood, CA who supplied us with so much information about their beautiful town!

The park & bell are located in Griffith Park, California

 

 ABOVE IMAGE: The original DON OSTER REALTY in Wrightwood California. They are still listed on the Internet as being in operation.

 

 ABOVE IMAGE:  UPDATE: This location was identified by Bill Anderson!
5142 Tujunga Ave. North Hollywood, CA
EAST VALLEY YMCA

 

ABOVE IMAGE: The "FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH" which also housed the "TIMBERLINE LIONS CLUB"

12/06/2013: Entrance to the Wrightwood Community Center - Thanks to John

ABOVE IMAGE: The late great Mary Munday played the cranky old city hall clerk. 

  

ABOVE IMAGE: Purma Sheriff,  the late Henry Beckman, walks past the old Standard Gas Sign.

 Henry Beckman joined the Canadian military service in WWII by changing his birth date, before he was 18, and served from 1939-1945. Less than 7% of his group survived the Normandy Invasion.

ABOVE IMAGES: Jim Rockford inside the "TEHACHAPI BELLE" restaurant. In this scene Jim talks about how bad the food is there... so needless to say the named used for this restaurant was fictional and not the real name of this eatery. 
12/05/2013: Now Identified -
The Yodeler Restaurant in "downtown" Wrightwood, California.
6046 Park Dr
Wrightwood, CA 92397

 

 

ABOVE IMAGE: The Purma Sheriff Office. The address on the wall is correct, 1300 Highway 2 Wrightwood CA. The "Purma Sheriff" sign is fictional.
12/06/2013: Used to be the Wrightwood Travel Agency building now occupied by a motorcycle tour company called Admo - Thanks to John

 

ABOVE IMAGE: As always the Rockford Files has a beautiful actress in this episode - Sandra Kerns played a news reporter by the name of Carrie Osgood

 

 

 

 

ABOVE FOUR IMAGES: A trip in time gone by in Wrightwood, California. What a beautiful town. I am placing this location on my travel wish list!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE IMDB WEBSITE TO SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF THE CAST FOR THIS EPISODE

Sigourney Weaver on the Rockford Files? The Rockford Files - Episode: This Case Is Closed - Episode Blooper and a Question about one of the Actresses

We have a new possible answer to this mystery actress. Is the actress on the left Sigourney Weaver? The photo on the right is a photo of actress Sigourney Weaver.

Ms. Weaver was born in 1949 thus making her in her late 20's during the filming of this episode. She also goes back and forth from very short hair to long hair over her career.

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In this posting we are asking if anybody knows who the above actress is? She appeared in an episode of The Rockford Files but her role was uncredited.

A viewer previously e-mailed us with this guess: Actress Patricia Charbonneau

but we ruled that guess out.

During the first segment of this episode Jim Rockford was being tailed by another private investigator. Jim loses this tail by going into a gated parking lot. In the above image you can see the two camera men and the two movie cameras on tripods as the scene shows the parking lot entrance/exit gate.  

In the three above images the actress in the white and orange outfit played "Kathy". Her role was not credited in the show's ending credits nor was she listed or identified on the website Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688091/

I was wondering if anybody knows who this actress is?