Blues Brothers Filming Locations Then and Now (1980 - 2022)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2022
- A tour of Chicagoland filming locations from the 1980’s classic The Blues Brothers, comparing their 1980 appearance to their present day (2022) appearance. Featuring a special appearance by Chicago’s Officially Licensed Bluesmobile!
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You have to be an even bigger fan than I am of The Blues Brothers. Awesome video. You were on a mission from God.
I am. 😎 As a native Chicagoan, when it first came out I was so excited to see my hometown in a movie for the first time! But then I fell in love with it for the film itself, and our local boy who had found stardom, John Belushi. ❤️
@@marythegirlygirl Do you actually own a Bluesmobile?
“It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.”
@@NoahSpurrier no, that is the official Chicago Bluesmobile! They drove me around in it one day!
@@marythegirlygirl how cool is THAT??!😁👍🎶
Dear Mary,
GREAT JOB on this “Blues Brothers” video! I was a Radio DJ when the movie and the “Briefcase Full Of Blues” album came out, and played the HELL out of a few deep cuts from that album on the air! And to top it off, BOTH of my parents grew up in Chicago, and lived there until 1951. That’s when they packed up and moved to the Los Angeles area. Therefore, I was quite surprised at how much my father LOVED the movie! You obviously love the movie (me too!), since you are pictured with your very own Bluesmobile! Although they’re very cool cars, these days you’ve got to be practically rich to keep the gas tank on one of those beasts full! And Mom and Dad owned a Dodge Polara of that vintage, years before the movie was even made. No, it didn’t have the 440 Hemi, but it was a great ride. But a late friend of mine had TWO of ‘em that he’d bought at a California Highway Patrol auction. Each of them was equipped with everything but the “cop style” light bar on top - heavy duty suspension, heavy duty transmission, full skid plates, HUGE Hemi engines…you get the idea. You could be doing 65 on the freeway, them floor it - and the rear wheels would break loose, you’d get pinned back in your seat, and EACH of these beasts would peel rubber until you hit 90 mph… or 95, depending on which car it was. So, Mary, thank you so much for taking the time and expense to put this video together. Again, GREAT job! Thank you!!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I do love the film, their music, and all things Blues Brothers. The car however is not mine. That’s the official Chicago Bluesmobile the boys use whenever they’re in town! 😎
This movie was special to my best friend and me in high school. 1983/85 We called each other jake and Elwood whenever we got in shenanigans, and it was the 80s so there were shenanigans probably watch that movie 50 times, and that means we did it on a VCR 😂
I appreciate the effort it took to do this. Thank you for bringing a stranger some joy in a mad world ❤🙏🏽
Thank you for sharing your story (Jake and Elwood- so cute!) and for your kind comments! 😎
Amazing work you’ve put in to bring this to us … I couldn’t guess how many times I have watched this film. If I’m ever in a crappy mood I’ll watch this and everything will float away 😊 This was and is the best film ever made full stop. Thanks Quinny
I feel the same! Always puts me in a good mood and makes me smile. 😎
Great movie. Great music & a great video. Cheers from a huge Blues Brothers fan in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed! 😎
Best thing I've found in a long time, massive part of my youth. Thanks for posting this, it's absolutely brilliant 🤙🏼🤙🏼
So glad you enjoyed it. Thank you! 😎
The amount of work that went into this video is amazing 👏
Thank you so much. It was a labor of love. ❤️
@@marythegirlygirl It shows!! Thank you for this!!!!
Thank YOU! Glad it brought you enjoyment! 😎
Great video! One of my all time favorite movies and the BEST soundtrack ever. It's wild how little things have changed 40+ years later. Thanks for the post!
Needed to a few more concert song's? The Stand by your man? Song?
You bought a Police car and outfit?Awesome. NOW? ORDER 4 WHOLE FRIED CHICKENS AND A COKE? TOSTED WHITE BREAD?
This is the BEST one yet.
Shelly’s Loan Aka Rays Music Exchange was a family business they kept it going through generations. In recent years They had problems with crime more and more frequently. The family closed it. The building burned in about 2017. I did a photo op there in 2016 before it closed I went inside and took pictures the mural was still there. ☑️
It burned in 2020 during the riots. I got a few pictures of it just prior to that.
Just watched The Blues Brothers (for the ??? time)...then watched your video! Great job--thank you for the effort...I loved the then and now!
Love this video. For years my sister and I have been able to quote most of the movie and now we've passed that down to her daughter (my niece). We're driving Route 66 west-east in 2025 in our 2018 Stingray and the Old Joliet Prison will be one of our final stops. I was stunned to see so few people in your photos. It actually looks safe to do.
That sounds like a fabulous trip! Have a wonderful time!
😂absolutely AWESOME! I was 10 yo with a 16yo bro in 1980. Between Blues Brothers; Porkys; Animal House and Fast Times @RH there were shenanigans to be had and no cell phone witnesesses! Your video was a great treat! Thanks
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 😎
Last weekend my wife surprised me with a trip to Chicago to see many of these sites. I was born in 81 and Blues Brothers has been my favorite movie my whole life! So sad that Ray's Music Exchange is gone. Great video!!
I’m so happy to hear of your experience! It’s really something to drive around and see all the spots!
Best Movie Ever
You won’t find any disagreement here! Long live the Blues Brothers! 😎
Carrie fisher really blew up the Hotel !!!! Holy crap !!!! Lol......I was watching the movie and wondered if they had a filming location video for it and I found your video. Thank you so much for making it !!! The blues brothers is my all time favorite movie !!!!! Your video makes it better.
One of my all time favorite movies too! John and Dan had something special going on. Thank you for the kind comments! 😎
6:22 Elwood: It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
😎😎😎
Thank you for making this. Watering eyes the entire time. Always been my favorite movie and soundtrack. God bless America🤘🇺🇸
Aww, how sweet. So glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
This is truly awesome. Thanks a lot, Mary!
Thank You this was awesome !
wow eyes watering as welll thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
greatest video i've seen in a long time.....super....
Most of the police cars that were used in this movie, ended up in a junkyard at RT 83 and Archer.
That is so sad. Wish some were preserved for nostalgic purposes.
Fantastic!
Love the blues brothers!
They are very lovable! 😎
Great video. Great choice of song and what a lovely smile
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it! 😎
This is amazing. The Blues Brothers has always been my favorite movie. Thank you so much for making this video! 😎
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a labor of love. ❤️
Incredible video. Great work. I love before and after pictures.
Thanks so much for your comment. So glad you enjoyed it! 😊
NUMBER 1 !!!!! Thanks!!!!!!
THX for this Video. I'm a great Fan. Greetings from Switzerland
Ooh ooh yeah Congratulations 👏
Love it this was amazing!
you are awesome Mary!!!!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed! 😎
Beautiful memories and great places good job thank you so much🎖️👍🌹
Thank you so much! It was a labor of love! ❤️
This is now my favourite Blues Brothers location vid. Loved the photo with Dan and Jim at the end.
Glad you enjoyed! You just made my day! ☺️
Great!
Awesome! My favourite movie of all times.
Great job!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Like the video, straight to the point! Good job.
Mary the GirlyGirl, you did a great job. I also liked the foot stomping at the end. It was a great finish
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed! 😎
Awesome
Very nice, thank you
This is Awesome. Thanks for the hard work!!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Great video! Love my hometown Wauconda and pass by Phils Beach every day going to work and back home.
I love that little town!
Thank you for this delightful time traveling video. This movie is my all-time favorite musical, on bad days I settle down to watch it and rest assured that yes the 'real world is nucking futs'. Its cheaper than therapy. :o)
I completely understand. It’s my feel good movie too! Peace love and blues! ✌🏻❤️😎
This is great!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow. Thanks for doing this. You did great!
Thanks so much! Peace ✌🏻 love ❤️ and blues! 😎
Wonderfull video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Well done
Thank you so much! I was on a mission of love. 😎
That was amazing, thank you!
So glad you enjoyed! 😎
Thank you for this!
The pleasure was all mine! I’m so thrilled to see how many people have derived enjoyment from it! ☺️
One if my favorite movies ever!
great stuff
So Cool Thanks for the research..I was 6yr when they filmed that growing up near by Indiana Stateline. Went lots trips out there through the years growing up visit family..Chicago has changed
Actually I was just there at the Mccormick place for the auto show this past weekend..I didn't see a shot from the movie scene. Where they are being chased turn on highway right side Mccormick place and can see little of downtown
Nice replica of the Bluesmobile☺
That’s the official Chicago Bluesmobile!
@@marythegirlygirl Wow😳
GREAT!!! What a huge amount of work. My highest respect!!! Almost as good as the film by itself. A pleasure for a Blues-Brothers-Fan. Best regards from Germany.
So glad you loved it! Happy Holidays! 😎
Absolutely brilliant ! Must have taken you ages but what a great idea ! Love that film. And Merry Christmas to you 😎👍
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 😎
bellissime foto!!saluti dall'Italia !!!
That was excellent, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
well done - thanks for the flashback and for sharing!
Nice! Wish you could have dine the mall! 😁
It’s nice to see those houses in that neighborhood street still mostly look the same.
Nice job!
Wonderful job! I was in Chicago in 2017 but saw only some of set places; you did a great showing us all of them and how they changed in years! Amazing!
Very happy to hear you enjoyed it! 🤗
God bless u
If you were a kid in the 80’s, loved this movie and had a brother you probably thought you two were Jake and Elwood because my bro and I thought we were them!
That’s so cute! 😎
Well done! loved it all!!!!
So much work you did and to think there are still more places that got used. Glad you got the west side of Bangs Lake in Wauconda. To the west of there, route 12 had not been completed yet. That is where they used the unfinished on ramp dirt to shoot the squad car into the semi trailer scene. Another of my favorites was the unfinished freeway on the east side of Winnetka for the RV chase scene. I was one of the stand ins for Steve Cropper. Sadly I am not immortalized in the finished product.
What a great experience that must’ve been! I’m jealous! (But happy for you 😎)
Never got to meet any of the cast, but did eat lunch at the same table with the Aykroyd and Belushi stand ins. By fate I was in the van with John Landais on 94 when one of the "cop cars' ran out of gas and several other 'cop cars' stopped to help. The stunt car only had a peanut gas tank for safety and had not been topped off. The visual of several Chicago units on the side of the freeway made a major traffic jam. That is about my extent with brush to greatness.
That wea great thank you
Glad you enjoyed! 😎
awesome, so much has changed, yet so much remains the same!
🎹🎶
That was awesome! Thank you for doing that!
wow! this is amazing! a wonderful tribute to the greatest movie of all time!!!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed! ☺️
Wow most of them are still there from 1980! Well done congratulations! You did great job to find them all. And you met Dan Aykrord! Brilliant!
Thank you, I was on a mission you could say. 😎
Beautiful video & memories.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed! 😎
Great job, thanks for your time. Great film
Many thanks!
thank you very much for this video. Some day I hope to come over to america and visit those places myself but until then pictures it is.
I hope you get the make that trip!
Phenomenal work! You literally found it all!
So glad you enjoyed! I was on a mission…😎
Pictures are great!! Love the music there too, I'd love to hit these spots!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! 😎
The blues was a good film
Wow!! U are really a blues brothers fan. U deserve an award for all the effort you put into filming all these locations. Bravo
As the saying goes, I was on a mission from...well, you know. 😎
Speaking as someone who grew up in Chicago suburbs in that era, this is an outstanding video. Thank you for this work. But whatever happened at the location of the mall they drove through that was going to be shut down anyway? I believe that was in Harvey?
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed. Yes, unfortunately. the Dixie Mall (which was already vacant at the time of filming) was demolished years before I discovered this hobby and decided to visit all these locations over the course of a little over a year. So was Rays Music Exchange and the diner where Aretha sang. I visited every spot I could! 😎
Thanks...
Nice work 👍✨❤️
Great job - loved it!
Very cool! Thanks for posting… BTW @4:38, there’s a hair salon called “curl up and dye”… We have one in my hometown of Mountain View Missouri👍
That’s awesome! I would go there if I lived there! 😎
@@marythegirlygirl The Blues Brothers movie is one of my all-time favorites - obviously, it is one of yours, too! 👍😁☮️
@@BaconTomatoCheese it absolutely is!
You were certainly on a mission
Thanks for all that, still my favorite movie. Have you seen the Director’s cut. It really makes the movie more complete
Yes I have and I love it! Glad you enjoyed the video! 😎
Nice car!
It’s the Chicago Bluesmobile!
I loved it. Thanks so much!
So glad you enjoyed it! 😎
Thank you for making this 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Love this
I’m so happy to hear you love it! Making it was a labor of love. ❤️
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Fantastic work, well done! All places I want to go!
Aww, thank you! So glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
On my top ten of favorite movies 🎬. You did a great job 👏 and I just subscribed 👍
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed! ☺️
Great job! Enjoyed it.
Thank you! Glad to hear it! 😎
Absolutely fantastic Mary!!!! X
Thank you for saying so! 😎
First great video 2nd thank you , 3rd how long did it take to get all these pictures and how did you know where to go?
Thank you! It took a year and a half to visit all the spots during a couple different trips to Chicago. I just googled the locations!
You are one cool lady and that is one cool video.
Awww, thank you for that! Glad you enjoyed! Peace, love and Blues Brothers! 😎
Looking great! Always loved that movie! How long did it take you to find all the locations? I'm going to have to make a trek up that way now.
That was put together over the course of one year. I visited different areas on different visits to Illinois. If you wanted to do them all at once I think you’d need 2 days. Too many spots spread far apart to cover in 1 day I think.
@@marythegirlygirl If you ever get down to Florida, I could help you find quite a few movie filming locations...including John Candy's Summer Rental....to Ron Howard's Cocoon. Enjoy your vids!
awesome video. If you want to see where "Bobs Country Bunker", its in Palos Hills, south of 103rd street and Roberts road on the east side of the street. Its an abandoned lot now, but you can see where the lake is. Also, it was called the Lake and park Inn back in the 70's and in the 80's. Let me know if you ever want to go see it. Great video, for a classic movie!
Thank you! ☺️
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind comment! Glad you enjoyed it! 😎
Mary How much you think the car is worth now, I'm sure this is a replica one of many? just asking how much you think it would be? thanks
Gosh I have no idea. None of the original vehicles from the movie remain, they were all destroyed during the making of the film. So any Bluesmobiles you see are replicas. However, that particular vehicle is the official Chicago Bluesmobile as recognized by the Blues Brothers themselves. The owner was incredibly kind enough to indulge my dream to drive around in it to visit all the spots from the movie. That’s one day I’ll never forget!
www.thechicagobluesmobile.com/