Kingpin (1996) Filming Locations - Then & NOW | Pittsburgh, PA 4K
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Join us as we visit the filming locations to the Farrelly Brothers 1996 comedy movie Kingpin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Kingpin follows Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) who is a young bowler with a promising career ahead of him until a disreputable colleague, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), tricks him into participating in a con game that ends with Roy's bowling hand crippled for life. Years later, Roy ekes out a hardscrabble existence until he discovers Amish bowling phenom Ishmael (Randy Quaid). With the help of a gangster's girlfriend (Vanessa Angel), he plots to take Ishmael to the top of the bowling world.
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Kingpin is still one of my favorite movies, no matter how many times I watch it, it never gets old.
Weird seeing y'all at Beaver Valley Bowl, my old stomping grounds. I see the house where I had my 1st son over your left shoulder when talking to the camera. Drank and bowled there many many times! Even had the cops come and unlock my car in that parking lot y'all were standing in. Keep up the great work!
I drank in a few bowling alleys between Pittsburgh and Butler I'm not sure which ones that was in the late 70s
Cool video. Kingpin is not just a movie to me, but a way of life.
But did you go all-out and get yourself that combover?
Beaver Valley Bowl was active through 2019. In July of that year there was a huge hazmat fire and cleanup in the neighborhood that closed it for a while. It was also used a good bit in filming season one of the Netflix series "I am not okay with this" (Season two was cancelled due to COVID in 2020).
It is amazing how these old buildings fall apart quite rapidly when abandoned. Once the heat is turned off in the winter the roof gets ruined and water does the rest.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. I saw it on Tv and since then I never seen it again. Great movie.
Underrated classic. - Hi Herbie, how's life? - Taking forever.
You guys are such a breath of fresh air in the chaos of todays world, I applaud the fact that you did not want to show the hate comments on the walls of beaver valley bowling as others would just to get that little extra, not needed. I love what you are doing taking us along to all these forgotten, abandoned places and old filming locations, it is fun to see then vs now and I thank you for filming it for us all to enjoy. Also that green hair is fantastic Jess and any woman who wears flip flops as much as you do is A OK in my book.
I’ve been in Cali my entire life. The east coast looks intriguing. Thanks for all of your hard work. Super constant. Appreciate it all.
Kingpin is in one of my top ten comedies of all time. So underrated, from top to bottom. Thanks for the journey!
This is one of the best channels on UA-cam. You are both so respectful and positive and you create content that is genuinely interesting.
Thank you so much!!! Grew up in the summers in Pittsburgh 80s and 90s. And family business outside Freedom/Economy PA. Right where that Beaver Bowling alley was .
Proud to call this one of my absolute favs..the Farrelly Bros. were a gift back in the 90's. 'Me, Myself & Irene' was another one that apparently fumbled in the theater but got it's audience eventually . Great vid guys! 🤘😎 Oh and you took the word right outta my mouth at 17:25 Wasn't expecting that 😂
Thank you both for taking the time to make the fantastic videos for us!! I find it highly entertaining
What I classic, I was 11 years old when this came out. I stayed at a friend's house we stand up late with his dad to watch this of video couldn't stop laughing!! Great Job👍.. memories!!!!
I love this video I’ve been requesting this video for so long to a bunch of other channels and nobody’s done it and you guys did it first amazing one of my favorite movies of all time great job
Crazy to think that it’s been 25 years later that movie came out.
Back in 2009-2012 beaver valley bowl was the home lanes for Rochester high schools bowling team. I used to bowl again then there it was so cool since I loved the movie.
Wow I think you are the first to do Kingpin! I been waiting on this filming location for years!
Love Kingpin 🎳 a absolute classic. Nice job hunting down the spots ,I’m amazed how you find these locations.
Great Movie !! Thank you for this video and all the fun details along with locations 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
My favorite comedy of all time, I live near the Amish community in Lancaster Pennsylvania so it always had a special place in my heart !!
I loved this film back in the day, great vid!
I just rewatched Kingpin about a month ago. Great video as always thanks.
One of my favorite movies . Thank you so much for this
What a great movie! Thanks for this walkthrough!
Please keep such quality content coming! Thanks for sharing. 👌
Rochester pool hall was in the 3rd floor of the bowling alley, which was in the 2nd floor when Woody loses his hand. As a kid crossing the bridge I thought this building was abandoned until I was 15 going to shoot pool for the first time. Old stomping grounds. Elevator was a death trap. Lol.
Great video. One of my favorite comedies. Thx for the insight
Yippie ! My home town, so glad you came back!
Great Video, had to share this on my Facebook. 😆, Great Movie 🎥.
thanks grimmlife kingpin is one of my fav comedys
Love your videos you really do your homework. Keep up the good work
One of my favorites. Thank you.
One of the best comedies ever made!! There's noway i could resist not going inside that Beaver Valley Bowl building, far to cool an opportunity to pass up.
Bowled at Beaver Valley Bowl many times as a youngster. Was really cool seeing it in the movie when I saw it for the first time. Had to climb a nice flight of stairs to get to the lanes
Brilliant you guys. Keep em coming.
Hands down my favorite Farrelly Brothers movie. The music was a perfect match for the movie.
This video is so cool. Just watched Kingpin with my son last night! It’s STILL beast. Super awesome, and thank you!!! 😂
You guys were so close to my house! I like like 6 minutes away in freedom!
love your before and after :D AND all the history around :D .. thats awesome
You are doing what I have always wanted to do...I'm happy to see someone else is crazy about this movie..it make me fill gitty thing about how good my life was in 96...great times...
So glad the channel is doing amazing! I knew it would. I was around back when you were under 5k subs (on my old username).
Keep up the amazing work, guys!
I was just watching Clerks, but I shut it off because I had to see this!
Kingpin was just about perfect. The era when it came out was great too, so many good movies came out of that era, 1993-1996. Its nice to see the bowling alley is still there.
Absolutely love your videos! Keep it up!
“You really jarred something loose tiger”
Beat me to it..😁👍✌️
Awesome video, one of my all time favorite films, so many great lines
Drone time... will put your videos📹 on another level.. great work as always 👏
This is one of my favorite movies, Thanks
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Awesome video. I am a big fan of you. Very cool and keep them coming.
I never seen king pin ur video got me to watch it, it’s a good and funny movie 🎥 thanks for all the great videos u make !!
I live in Pennsylvania and now I wanna go check out all these locations. Great video, thanks!
BRILLIANT...Loved that Movie Watched it many many times....
The building to the guys right when he first starts his documentary actually belongs to my family. My grandpap bought that building when he got out of world war II. My dad and his sisters and brother were all born in that building. My family still lives in it and I visit it every year when I'm not sick. Yes it is a busy and dangerous curve. We used to walk across that bridge as kids because on the other side was a 7-Eleven and that's where we got our slurpees. We used to sit out front at night in our lawn chairs and could barely see each other because of all the fog. Good Times there I have pictures with my family with Woody because it was raining when they filmed it and he stayed in my grandma's house. We call it a house. She fixed him lunch and I have pictures of him with her and my aunts and uncles. My dad and I travel back and forth to Pennsylvania during the Thanksgiving time and we missed meeting Woody by three weeks. Those buildings were actually Westinghouse buildings because Westinghouse was located just on the other side of that bridge and that is where my grandpap worked. I guess they call them something else now but we still call them that.
Thanks for a great video for one my favorite movies also. I laughed at every clip. Thanks for your hard hard work.
That was fun!! Great video!
Grimm for Life!
Wow! Cant believe that Bowling Alley is still there!!! Great Movie Great Video!! Thanks.
Love Kingpin! Always makes me laugh!! Great vid 😎👋🏻
Kingpin one of my fav movies.
Lovely bit of nostalgia, thanks for sharing. What a shame that last bowling alley has been left to rot. Sign of the times I guess…
One of my favorite movies
The Beaver Valley Bowl was also used in the movie Wonder Boys and the Netflix series I Am Not Okay with This. Sadly, I doubt it will be standing for much longer as it has been closed for some time and the property has failed to sell recently.
The farm used in Kingpin is on PA Route 288 in Fombell, PA, just across from the Fombell General Store (at the time of filming it was the post office). You can line up the shot where Ishmael rides his bicycle down the lane after meeting Roy with Google Street View.
The bridge where Ishmael passes the "Roy 101" test after telling Roy he wants to walk to Reno is a section of PA Route 528 that spans Lake Arthur, just North of Prospect, PA. Also available on Street View.
How do you know all this?
Love your coverage on Kingpin. I work right up in the area in Mars PA.
This literally hits home for me 100% Thank you.
That is a great classic. I visited Reno, NV where they did the bowling tournament.
So so very cool. Once again we seem to have similar taste in films. Kingpin one of my faves too. Sad to see the Beaver Valley Bowl in such disrepair. still great video, thank you for all you guys do.
Amazing as always guys
I was living in Evans City at the time Kingpin was filmed, I remember the road being closed for filming at the Mars bowling alley. I also remember encountering the crew when I was driving to work one day, going from Evans City to Mercer. They were filming a driving scene, maybe if I re-watch the movie it will remind me where it was. Maybe on Route 9? I also was living in Kittanning when "Mothman" was filmed, they were filming for a long time, it was months.
McKnight Bowling Lanes in Ross Twp was in the movie. I’m surprised you didn’t check it out. I grew up bowling there and was so excited when it saw it was in Kingpin. Great video though, thanks for sharing.
My husband was a bowling double for Woody Harrelson. Inside bowling scenes filmed at Mosside Lanes as well as Carrick Lanes on Brownsville Road.
There was an exterior shot filmed at McKnight Lanes on McKnight Road, I don't know if any interior shots were filmed there but there's an exterior shot that has Munson's car parked in front of it.
About a year after the movie came out it got sold to someone who shut it down and had the building raised up, bowling alleys are very low building's, and converted it into a retail store like a Bed Bath and Beyond kind of place, I was on the ironworking crew that did the work, there were people across the street with signs protesting it who were these hard-core Pittsburgh area bowlers who were all bent out of shape because they considered McKnight Lanes to be an historical bowling property in the Pittsburgh area that should have been preserved for it's historic value, I'd never heard of such a thing and on the first day kept expecting to see Woody Harrelson to come walking along figuring that what was really going on was a sequel to Kingpin was being filmed, I just couldn't take the whole "historical bowling" thing seriously and thought for sure I was going to wind up as an extra in Kingpin II, The Return of Munson.
I been having a HORRIBLE month and been dreading Xmas this year more than any other. Seeing this takes me back to the happy 90s when things were great and this film means soooo much to me.
Great piece 👍🏿💯
I love Kingpin. Its right there with the Big Lebowski for me. I'm loving these videos. The last one, with Pet Sematary was like a mini documentary. You 2 are the best ! 💛
I feel like I've watched King Pin one hundred times and have no memory of him bowling with his Dad?!
I’d call those townhouses. And what a great movie.
Those aren’t townhouses. Look like it. But def not
Those are triplexes!
One of the greatest comedies of the 90s.
I'm from Carrick, and def remember them filming at Carrick classic lanes...great vid my dude.
Nice work!!
My all time favorite scene is when Ray milks the bull 🤣🤣🤣. Great video as always
Great vid 👍
Another great video both. Looking forward to watching it. Who needs Christmas when it's Halloween 24/7. 🎃🤘
I wish to meet you guys sometime in the future I’m glad I’m back to watching ur videos again
Great work...
Love this channel
Kingpin is one of my favorite films too. Always good to watch anytime.
thanks for sharing
Great job yall, absolutely love this movie. Have yall thought about getting a drone?
Great job....great film....great channel 🇬🇧😄👍
Amazing so many of the buildings featured in this film still look the same for the most part even down to the house number sign. It would be amazing to go inside the last location, I'd be extremely tempted! Great work guys!
Wonderful episode!
One of my favorite movies I have watched it so many times.
I haven’t seen this movie and didn’t really know what you were talking about, but I watched anyway!
Few more locations in Mars: The scene when Big Ern and Roy are eating after the engine is blown, was at the restaurant right across the street from the 7 -eleven at the 9:09 Mark (now called Breakneck). That 7-eleven was shot in a short scene as they were looking for Ishmael right before they arrive at Uncle Willees reptile farm. Uncle WIlees was right down the road (Mars-Valencia) and is called Willies Tavern. Finally, the ice cream stand was on Mars Valencia road right here: 40°40'43.5"N 80°00'00.0"W.
I was just a Breakneck... had no idea..so cool
Fascinating!l💙ve you!💙
This is awesome!
Awesome content!
The building at the end was also used in the 2000 movie Wonder Boys starring Micheal Douglas, Toby McGuire, Robert Downey Jr and Katie Holmes.
If you've never seen it look it up and watch it, it was filmed mostly in the immediate Pittsburgh area, that was about as far away from the city they got, it's a good movie, watch it sometime.
The beginning of this video is literally a stone's throw from where I have been living for the last 14 years
One of my all time favorite comedies
Thank you for the great video. There were also scenes shot at McKnight Lanes on McKnight Road in Ross Twp. My old stomping grounds. Sadly, they turned it into a Bed Bath and Beyond.
They never used the inside of McKnight lanes. It was just an exterior. The inside scene was shot at Fair Oaks Bowl in Ambridge