I am 55 now and it’s cool to see you kids look back at my generation. I have to tell you. It was a magical time for us back then. You have to understand that it was a totally different way of life, we had no computers until the early 80’s. So these type of shows were all the hit along with the rest of them. We had to wait for everything! Even pop corn was not instantly made. I remember when the microwave came into everyone’s homes. We went through 8 tracks, cassette, CD’s and now streaming and XM. I remember very well when Star Wars opened and that was the kick off to all the rest of the classic remarks into motion pictures. Star Trek, Superman to name a few. This show done especially well because the women’s lib movement at the time and I know first hand because my Mom left my father because he was a jerk and she truly lived a smiler way, she had to go to work, she worked at a large department store ( big at the time) selling shoes for $2.75 an hour and raised us just fine. We did not have candy and junk but we always were fead good meals and had wonderful summers on company picnics and great holidays . We were very happy to get one item that we wanted so badly . We truly did not lock out front screen door on those long summer nights and we always had a big family dinner on Sunday. Their is so much I can share that will not fit here , but yes sir ! I am so Grateful for having lived in those decades . When I hear this into it opens a flood gate of wonderful memories growing up in that time , a slower time , a time when people were more respectful, more patient and more understanding. So this is my time machine and thank you for making and sharing .
I'm not that old, i was born in the 80's, i even just watch this show now while watch other old sitcoms show too, but thinking before the 80's or 90's show it much more like The Love Boat show type, but this one is really different than the rest, its not just the messages about how women could be independent too work for themselves, but the sitcom situation is not like other sitcom too, the humour their used is not based on insulting others although there's some inevitable one but still not really insulting, & most of the storyline is quite usual non comedy that teach how to be mannered but in the end of the line there's some funny line put into it, & from hearing ur point of view, yeah now the tech is so advanced than before, but also crazily making anything to be too much fast that only lead people into a non passion person, everything too much of an instant, i grew up in the 90's but i'm still feeling like you do now, something is missing now compare to the old one
I keep coming back to this video over and over in some kind of attempt to get more information on Mary and the cast at that time. Having been born in 1969 I was just a kid during the time of that show. It was always on and kinda background on a television for me but in recent years I've become nostalgic and found myself missing the innocents of that time period. God Bless Mary and the rest of the cast who are no longer with us and thank you for posting this wonderful video!
This is so sweet that it brought unexpected tears to my eyes. You guys are so kind to 1.) make this video and 2.) do it in such respectful fun way. Your Mary Tyler Moore walk was PERFECT!! You're hat toss a winner!! Also, I love that you guys are so young and tipping your hat to a bygone era. So Sweet........those times weren't perfect, but they were simpler. You both are turning the world on with YOUR SMILES...... Thank You so much!!❤️❤️❤️👍🏻
The building you show as Macy's was previously called "Dayton's." It's was a wonderful store for those of us who grew up in Minneapolis. We used to take the bus downtown and had fun joking around about throwing our hats in the air like her. :) Additionally, my neighbor and oldest friend watched Mary Tyler Moore washing a blue Ford Mustang in her neighbors driveway on the corner of Seabury Avenue and 38th Avenue. There's a house there now, but it was an empty lot with a long driveway behind it. Channel 4 (Dave Moore) did a behind the scenes look at the filming of all of the opening and closing credits back in '74 or '75 and they showed her signing autographs and hanging around with the kids in my neighborhood. Good times and great memories growing up in S Mpls in the 70s!!
Hi, for those TV fanatics who might find this interesting, the joggers Mary passes when she's walking along the lake in the intro to the show, are actually James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, the co-creators/producers/writers of the show! In the shot, they are so far away and run by so fast, you cannot make out their faces, but there is an old "making of" segment that aired on Minneapolis TV during the first year of the show, that shows them actually creating that scene. They even donned Minnesota Vikings jerseys to give more of a feeling that they were in Minnesota. So remember, if you're ever on Jeopardy and they ask about that, just in case you didn't know before, you do now! Lol.
Don't forget about the nosey lady wearing the scarf on her head peering behind those wing tip eyeglasses in the freeze frame where Mary's hat stops in the air. There's a very entertaining story about her as well. Her name is Hazel Frederick. The cameras were hidden so she had no idea Mary was being filmed. Let me see if I can post the link
Nosey lady? Wow. Anyone would be startled by a woman throwing her hat in the middle of an intersection. If it were a MAN you'd call him startled or curious. Perpetuating nasty stereotypes in a show about feminism..... disgusting.😢
I just finished watching your entire video!! thank you so much. Of all the celebrities that have passed on...for some reason I do know know Mary Tyler Moores death struck me and here over a year later...her death still makes me weep as if she was a close member of my family! thank you so much for this video!
yup. died at age 80. MTM had been suffering for some time....the results of her juvenile diabetes....wearing her down. she was either totally blind or virtually blind....apparently well-taken care of, by her husband, Dr. Levine, and the staff at a top tier facility in/near Greenwich, Ct.
Thank you for this video. Mary Tyler Moore Show was my favorite. Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis and little Bess. Great video. Amazing.. I am 67 years old and enjoy the reruns!
What a nice video. Thank you for sharing this. It came up in a search when I was looking for something about when Mary vacated the house-apartment, to move to the tower. Now, to imagine the interior above Mary's apartment, where Rhoda lived.
The building in which she tosses her hat is the Dayton's Department Store building dating from 1902. In the Spring of 2001 it became a Marshall Field's store, and finally in September of 2006 a flagship macy*s store. I believe when you filmed this segment, macy*s was in the process of closing this location which had been a large Downtown Department Store for well over 100 years. The Dayton's building is now being redeveloped into what is known as The DAYTON'S Project. A mix use of small retail, restaurants, office and I believe residential space. The department store building was built in stages from 1902-1948 I believe and was about 1.2 million square feet of space, one of the largest single US Department Stores. They have even placed a Green DAYTON'S sign on the front similar to the one shown on the opening credits of "Mary Tyler Moore " show. 🙂
The two guy that jog by Mary when she's walking along the water in the summer scene are two of the Producers of the MtM show, Dave Davis and James L. Brooks. And Mary's husband (at the time) Grant Tinker, was also in several of the show's opening shots. Mary was a 1st class lady! It's hard to believe she has passed on.
Nowadays James L Brooks as The Simpsons head honcho would be singlered out as the man jogging past MTM in the opening years ago . He and Mr Davis were really moving !
So glad I came across this video! I'm old enough to remember Mary Tyler Moore on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Although her show began 47 years ago, it's proof that good writing is timeless. I continue to watch her show on the Comedy Gold network, quite fitting that it should be broadcast there, as that series was and is Comedy Gold! Thank you for posting this and I sincerely hope this video goes viral so you can buy the "Mary" house!
Interesting!!! The Mary Tyler Moore theme song was my all-time favorite TV theme song. Every time I'm having a somewhat okay day, I tend to sing this song to myself to cheer me up⬆ 😀❤👍
Thanks to this video, which I have watched over a dozen times, I was able to make a bucket list dream come true since a child! In December, 2022, for my birthday, I made it after all! I finally visited The Mary Tyler Moore Sites! What a memorable experience! Your video really helped me discover the places where the outside filming took place. The show really placed Minneapolis on the map. I will definitely return! I wasn't able to visit The Lake of Isles shown in the opening credits or her new apartment building! However, that gives me another opportunity to visit!
I had the 72 Mustang Mary is washing & that Rhoda replaced with a new yellow one after she's wrecked the first white one Mary drove in the 1st season. The last of the big Mustangs. It was quite the attention getter!
Thanks for doing this! Very cool and warm-hearted both! The guy she was filmed having lunch with in the restaurant I’ve been told was her then husband Mr Tinker.
OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS!! I'M FREAKING OUT. So some of the Jazzy Music I used in this video I just picked because it was peaceful relaxing and available to use, but at time point 15:12 you can actually hear the theme from Mary Tyler Moore (right as im walking into the visitor center where the statue is) for just a couple seconds. the "your gunna make it after all" theme is heard in the piano part. I promise this was not on purpose... just a happy accident.. or was it? blown away. May Mary's memorie live on. Thanks for making us Smile Mary!
I have been watching reruns of the Dick Van Dyke show for the past two days and you are sooo right good writing is timeless and I havent seen an episode that I havent laughed my butt off and its 2018 lol :)
I grew up watching The Mary Tyler Moore show. In the '80s I have binge watching here on UA-cam. I wanted to do the room that she was running out actually look like the room. I don't see people really living in that house. Other than written out the rooms. I love the Mary Tyler Moore show. I'm quite sure if no one bought it it's probably worth a lot more now. 🙆🏽♀️
I grew up a few miles west from the MTM house. As a part-time gig my dad would do minor home renovations and painting and he got to work on the house to the left of the MTM house on Kenwood Pkwy and every now and then my mom, sister and I would go visit him, passing right past that historic house.
A friend of me used to live in the building used for exteriors Ted Baxter's apartment building. It was on Dale Street, just off 94 in St. Paul. It was also a dump.
Saw the mtm show intermittently as a kid in 70s Ireland. On Irish TV or bbc. Mary, Rhoda and Phyllis were lovely and funny. Looking at episodes on UA-cam it's a really good funny sitcom. Apart from the female leads, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, John Amos and Gavin McCleod were hilarious.
Here's a 1973 documentary behind-the-scenes of the filming of the opening sequence in Minneapolis. They had a huge crowd watching the Crystal Court scene. Fun to see. Some of the downtown buildings along Nicollet Mall have been torn down and replaced the last decade or so, but much of it remains. ua-cam.com/video/iPDEIyOweQo/v-deo.html
Another FUN video of you two!! I use to watch the show all the time. I started out in Minneapolis as a young girl also.....went to airline school. Memories............
I really enjoyed the video for one of my favorite shows. One correction, though: the show did debut in 1970. I remember watching it. I was in the 7th grade and was ticked off that it replaced Petticoat Junction in that time slot. One episode in, however, and I was hooked and completely forgot PJ. Been a favorite all these years.
MattsRadShow Thank YOU. I’ve always been fascinated by that house and it was great seeing it up-close-and-personal in your video. The other locations were great too. Keep up the good work.
@@kahliatangazi448 In 1970 there was something called the "rural purge," at CBS. The network dumped Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies and replaced them with edgier, more hip shows like MTM and All in the Family.
It's 3 years later, but thought I'd share that MTM show in It's entirely is in UA-cam. I'm on season 6...and she gained notoriety as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show--also on YT!
I was in Minneapolis a couple of years ago and the statue was removed due to road work in the area then! I was told that where the statue was, was not quite where Mary tossed her hat as it would be in the middle of where people walked.
Mary Tyler Moore said in an interview that she was in the street itself when she threw up her hat, and that is why the woman behind her doing that footage is looking at her as if to say, "What is that crazy woman doing?" Later on, that woman contacted Mary and told her she feared for her life being in the street and really did think she was crazy. Funny.
Hey guys are You from Minneapolis? I think this is cool! I grew up in Minnesota! I Loved to see All the familiar places from the Mary Tyler Moore show!
THIS IS EXCELLENT.....but Mary's apt was on the 2nd floor...Rhoda had the third (Phyllis first)/...check some old episodes,,,those doors/windows are on the 2nd floor
i lived across the street from that house. in 1971-73 tour buses did come by and people would chip off the stone on the front of the house and the owners were harassed. they eventually hung huge banners outside that read impeach nixon. the tours ended after that. the inside of that house is extraordinary. there is a ballroom and a bowling alley. it is absolutely lovely. i hope whoever buys it does not destroy it. our house was ransacked after we moved. the new owners took out the remarkable leaded glass window to sell. the original features were all modernized which ruined the charm. i loved our house. i still dream about it.
There is great footage of the making of the 1973 opening, Look up-You Tube [ Mary tyler moore 1973 behind the scenes in minneapolis- Moore on sunday wcco tv] You will love this.
Shared it! What a gorgeous house! I couldn't afford the property tax much less the house lololol You guys are such a joy to watch! Looks like you had an awesome day! I didn't realize how many things were filmed in Minnesota! Crazy cool! Thanks for sharing all these locations! Looking forward to more adventures! So cool! Keep living the dream!
Rambling Redhead Thanks for sharing it! Means alot. and yeah property tax must be a small fortune each year. super nice neighborhood too. Always fun to do an episode together. :-)
@@MattsRadShow Have you got one on where McMillan and Wife was filmed. Looks lovely in San Francisco, though it must be different by now. Used to love watching them in the seventies.
I just wondering if it really real or set on stage like most sitcom, but even if usually set on stage in studio from the inside view but using the real one as the background, so i wonder where exactly does this sitcom take place, especially where it describe beautifully where there's a lake that in the winter became an ice, people walking, looking mary walking across the street, zooming from the street to where the building mary meet someone or work (not sure), turns out u both making it real my wishes to get to know this, thx u so much for fulfilling my curiosity
The MTM show never asked permission to film the exterior of the house, and it caused enormous problems fro the owner, who was constantly being asked to give tours, at all hours.
Yes, when they came back again, Paula hung a big banner saying Impeach Nixon and would not take it down. They never paid her, which totally sucks. That's why Mary moved to Cedar Square West, and Paula had to sell the house to have piece of mind.
I'm so glad I found this video, thanks for making it! It is so well-done! I'm a huge fan of the show and I just visited Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and visited most of these places. Your video really helped me find the places! I have a few photos on my Instagram of me at these places. @cyntheory
Sigh, DONALDSON's burned down (1982)...DAYTON'S became MACY'S, (that MACY'S location is now closed)…and there was a sculpture commissioned by DAYTON'S called "The Spinner" (1967) by Alexander Calder, (now in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden), in front of the store on the then new pedestrian only Nicollet Mall. The IDS building (where MTM comes up the escalator and has lunch with her HUSBAND GRANT TINKER) wasn't completed until 2 years after the show premiered (that shot was added/updated for the 2nd season) after the CRYSTAL COURT was completed. Also, BASIL'S has since closed--that part of the mall is dead. I want to cry when I see your video of what once was.
I wonder how far the house used for exteriors was from the building where she supposedly worked? On the show, she never seemed to have problems commuting and on a several occasions she popped home for a short time if I recall correctly before going back to work.
This is awesome. Great to see a fun, young couple so appreciative of the show. I've been marathon binging it these days. Feel nostalgic. Amazing how sweet yet politically incorrect it could be (what's w/Mary inviting every guy back to her place for coffee and her boss showing up drunk any time he felt like it?!). I won't be getting to Minneapolis any time soon, so I rely on Google Maps for my spying. I think the exact Lake of the Isles white pantsuit shot (opening credits) can be found at 2322 Grand Rounds National Byway. I compared your video to Google Maps, and the homes in the background match up. Thx so much for caring/sharing...
Riverside Towers. Today, the buildings are rundown, shabby, and infested with gangs. It is a modern urban ghetto that the locals call the 'crack stack'. The "RAINBOW GHETTO" because of the colored panels on the sides
Great video. Do you happen to know where the closing shot was filmed? Mary is seen walking with her date in the city at twilight and a bus is passing by. The last shot before the MTM cat logo.
240clay98 hey there. I have the same question. That shot is so sweet and touching. It can actually bring me to tears if the mood is right in my life at the time.
Trying like crazy to get the exact location on maps to find the exact waling path. I think I found the area. But maps has pics where all the trees have leaves and the view is from the road, not the walking path.
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I am 55 now and it’s cool to see you kids look back at my generation. I have to tell you. It was a magical time for us back then. You have to understand that it was a totally different way of life, we had no computers until the early 80’s. So these type of shows were all the hit along with the rest of them. We had to wait for everything! Even pop corn was not instantly made. I remember when the microwave came into everyone’s homes. We went through 8 tracks, cassette, CD’s and now streaming and XM. I remember very well when Star Wars opened and that was the kick off to all the rest of the classic remarks into motion pictures. Star Trek, Superman to name a few. This show done especially well because the women’s lib movement at the time and I know first hand because my Mom left my father because he was a jerk and she truly lived a smiler way, she had to go to work, she worked at a large department store ( big at the time) selling shoes for $2.75 an hour and raised us just fine. We did not have candy and junk but we always were fead good meals and had wonderful summers on company picnics and great holidays . We were very happy to get one item that we wanted so badly . We truly did not lock out front screen door on those long summer nights and we always had a big family dinner on Sunday. Their is so much I can share that will not fit here , but yes sir ! I am so Grateful for having lived in those decades . When I hear this into it opens a flood gate of wonderful memories growing up in that time , a slower time , a time when people were more respectful, more patient and more understanding. So this is my time machine and thank you for making and sharing .
I'm not that old, i was born in the 80's, i even just watch this show now while watch other old sitcoms show too, but thinking before the 80's or 90's show it much more like The Love Boat show type, but this one is really different than the rest, its not just the messages about how women could be independent too work for themselves, but the sitcom situation is not like other sitcom too, the humour their used is not based on insulting others although there's some inevitable one but still not really insulting, & most of the storyline is quite usual non comedy that teach how to be mannered but in the end of the line there's some funny line put into it, & from hearing ur point of view, yeah now the tech is so advanced than before, but also crazily making anything to be too much fast that only lead people into a non passion person, everything too much of an instant, i grew up in the 90's but i'm still feeling like you do now, something is missing now compare to the old one
You had a computer in the early 80s? That's about ten years sooner than most folks.
I keep coming back to this video over and over in some kind of attempt to get more information on Mary and the cast at that time. Having been born in 1969 I was just a kid during the time of that show. It was always on and kinda background on a television for me but in recent years I've become nostalgic and found myself missing the innocents of that time period. God Bless Mary and the rest of the cast who are no longer with us and thank you for posting this wonderful video!
This is so sweet that it brought unexpected tears to my eyes. You guys are so kind to 1.) make this video and 2.) do it in such respectful fun way. Your Mary Tyler Moore walk was PERFECT!! You're hat toss a winner!! Also, I love that you guys are so young and tipping your hat to a bygone era. So Sweet........those times weren't perfect, but they were simpler. You both are turning the world on with YOUR SMILES...... Thank You so much!!❤️❤️❤️👍🏻
Look on you tube--- Mary Tyler Moore 1973 Behind the scenes in Minneapolis, moore on Sunday WCCO tv.
The building you show as Macy's was previously called "Dayton's." It's was a wonderful store for those of us who grew up in Minneapolis. We used to take the bus downtown and had fun joking around about throwing our hats in the air like her. :) Additionally, my neighbor and oldest friend watched Mary Tyler Moore washing a blue Ford Mustang in her neighbors driveway on the corner of Seabury Avenue and 38th Avenue. There's a house there now, but it was an empty lot with a long driveway behind it. Channel 4 (Dave Moore) did a behind the scenes look at the filming of all of the opening and closing credits back in '74 or '75 and they showed her signing autographs and hanging around with the kids in my neighborhood. Good times and great memories growing up in S Mpls in the 70s!!
Here it is! Great show and behind the scenes... ua-cam.com/video/iPDEIyOweQo/v-deo.html
Look on You tube--- Mary Tyler Moore 1973 behind the scenes in Minneapolis- Moore on Sunday WCCO tv.
Hi, for those TV fanatics who might find this interesting, the joggers Mary passes when she's walking along the lake in the intro to the show, are actually James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, the co-creators/producers/writers of the show! In the shot, they are so far away and run by so fast, you cannot make out their faces, but there is an old "making of" segment that aired on Minneapolis TV during the first year of the show, that shows them actually creating that scene. They even donned Minnesota Vikings jerseys to give more of a feeling that they were in Minnesota. So remember, if you're ever on Jeopardy and they ask about that, just in case you didn't know before, you do now! Lol.
Don't forget about the nosey lady wearing the scarf on her head peering behind those wing tip eyeglasses in the freeze frame where Mary's hat stops in the air. There's a very entertaining story about her as well. Her name is Hazel Frederick. The cameras were hidden so she had no idea Mary was being filmed. Let me see if I can post the link
Don't forget, they are running in shoes.
Nosey lady? Wow. Anyone would be startled by a woman throwing her hat in the middle of an intersection. If it were a MAN you'd call him startled or curious. Perpetuating nasty stereotypes in a show about feminism..... disgusting.😢
Yuou guys are awesome for doing this! I love MTM as much today as I did back in the day. Love is STILL all around.
I just finished watching your entire video!! thank you so much. Of all the celebrities that have passed on...for some reason I do know know Mary Tyler Moores death struck me and here over a year later...her death still makes me weep as if she was a close member of my family! thank you so much for this video!
yup. died at age 80. MTM had been suffering for some time....the results of her juvenile diabetes....wearing her down. she was either totally blind or virtually blind....apparently well-taken care of, by her husband, Dr. Levine, and the staff at a top tier facility in/near Greenwich, Ct.
Her "friend" she's having lunch with in the opening theme was actually her husband at the time, Grant Tinker. He was the head of CBS and later NBC
Thank you for this video. Mary Tyler Moore Show was my favorite. Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis and little Bess.
Great video. Amazing.. I am 67 years old and enjoy the reruns!
Rest In Peace, Mary Tyler Moore, aka Mary Richards!
This is so nostalgic and such a awesome time of my life.
What a nice video. Thank you for sharing this. It came up in a search when I was looking for something about when Mary vacated the house-apartment, to move to the tower. Now, to imagine the interior above Mary's apartment, where Rhoda lived.
Awesome! Lol. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it.
Thank you for the tour awesome memories. I have the series on DVD
Imagine all the wretched Minneapolis winters that house went through. Ugh.
Awesome jazz music in this vid.
Rest in Peace Mary Tyler Moore.
It looks cold and draughty.
The building in which she tosses her hat is the Dayton's Department Store building dating from 1902. In the Spring of 2001 it became a Marshall Field's store, and finally in September of 2006 a flagship macy*s store. I believe when you filmed this segment, macy*s was in the process of closing this location which had been a large Downtown Department Store for well over 100 years. The Dayton's building is now being redeveloped into what is known as The DAYTON'S Project. A mix use of small retail, restaurants, office and I believe residential space. The department store building was built in stages from 1902-1948 I believe and was about 1.2 million square feet of space, one of the largest single US Department Stores. They have even placed a Green DAYTON'S sign on the front similar to the one shown on the opening credits of "Mary Tyler Moore " show. 🙂
The two guy that jog by Mary when she's walking along the water in the summer scene are two of the Producers of the MtM show, Dave Davis and James L. Brooks. And Mary's husband (at the time) Grant Tinker, was also in several of the show's opening shots. Mary was a 1st class lady! It's hard to believe she has passed on.
Nowadays James L Brooks as The Simpsons head honcho would be singlered out as the man jogging past MTM in the opening years ago . He and Mr Davis were really moving !
Y'all seemed to have a lot of fun finding the MTM locations. I enjoyed watching.
So glad I came across this video! I'm old enough to remember Mary Tyler Moore on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Although her show began 47 years ago, it's proof that good writing is timeless. I continue to watch her show on the Comedy Gold network, quite fitting that it should be broadcast there, as that series was and is Comedy Gold! Thank you for posting this and I sincerely hope this video goes viral so you can buy the "Mary" house!
lovesmusic36 Haha. Thanks so much! Appreciate you watching! Mary was great! :-)
....the MTM show won so many EMMY's....acting, writing, directing, and production. Overall. only "beaten" by FRASIER, which ran several years longer.
Interesting!!! The Mary Tyler Moore theme song was my all-time favorite TV theme song. Every time I'm having a somewhat okay day, I tend to sing this song to myself to cheer me up⬆ 😀❤👍
Thanks to this video, which I have watched over a dozen times, I was able to make a bucket list dream come true since a child! In December, 2022, for my birthday, I made it after all! I finally visited The Mary Tyler Moore Sites! What a memorable experience! Your video really helped me discover the places where the outside filming took place. The show really placed Minneapolis on the map. I will definitely return! I wasn't able to visit The Lake of Isles shown in the opening credits or her new apartment building! However, that gives me another opportunity to visit!
I had the 72 Mustang Mary is washing & that Rhoda replaced with a new yellow one after she's wrecked the first white one Mary drove in the 1st season. The last of the big Mustangs. It was quite the attention getter!
Heartfelt, honest and appreciative.
Thanks for doing this! Very cool and warm-hearted both! The guy she was filmed having lunch with in the restaurant I’ve been told was her then husband Mr Tinker.
OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS!! I'M FREAKING OUT. So some of the Jazzy Music I used in this video I just picked because it was peaceful relaxing and available to use, but at time point 15:12 you can actually hear the theme from Mary Tyler Moore (right as im walking into the visitor center where the statue is) for just a couple seconds. the "your gunna make it after all" theme is heard in the piano part. I promise this was not on purpose... just a happy accident.. or was it? blown away. May Mary's memorie live on. Thanks for making us Smile Mary!
MattsRadShow You're talking about the few hits on the keys that make out the theme? That's kinda freaky...
TJ Jones Yep!
Nice. I'm a Rhoda fan, but without Mary.....Keep an eye out at your PO Box, I sent you something for your mail vlog!
Francine Scott Yeah Rhoda was fun. Thanks for sending me whatever!
I have been watching reruns of the Dick Van Dyke show for the past two days and you are sooo right good writing is timeless and I havent seen an episode that I havent laughed my butt off and its 2018 lol :)
Nice vid! You two did a fantastic job of sharing these locations.
Thank you. Very well done you guys.
Mary Tyler Moore ran from September 19th, 1970 to March 19th, 1977.
I loved that show so much and appreciate your video. Did a great job.
you did great in my city.... glad you were here
I grew up watching The Mary Tyler Moore show. In the '80s I have binge watching here on UA-cam. I wanted to do the room that she was running out actually look like the room. I don't see people really living in that house. Other than written out the rooms. I love the Mary Tyler Moore show. I'm quite sure if no one bought it it's probably worth a lot more now. 🙆🏽♀️
Thank you for providing this video! Love it 💕
My wife and I did the same thing as you guys. I had a great time finding all the locations you see on her show
I grew up a few miles west from the MTM house. As a part-time gig my dad would do minor home renovations and painting and he got to work on the house to the left of the MTM house on Kenwood Pkwy and every now and then my mom, sister and I would go visit him, passing right past that historic house.
A friend of me used to live in the building used for exteriors Ted Baxter's apartment building. It was on Dale Street, just off 94 in St. Paul. It was also a dump.
Saw the mtm show intermittently as a kid in 70s Ireland. On Irish TV or bbc. Mary, Rhoda and Phyllis were lovely and funny. Looking at episodes on UA-cam it's a really good funny sitcom. Apart from the female leads, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, John Amos and Gavin McCleod were hilarious.
Here's a 1973 documentary behind-the-scenes of the filming of the opening sequence in Minneapolis. They had a huge crowd watching the Crystal Court scene. Fun to see. Some of the downtown buildings along Nicollet Mall have been torn down and replaced the last decade or so, but much of it remains.
ua-cam.com/video/iPDEIyOweQo/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing this.
Another FUN video of you two!! I use to watch the show all the time. I started out in Minneapolis as a young girl also.....went to airline school. Memories............
Babs Metz Yay!! You were basically Mary Tyler Moore. :-)
You guys Rock. Too much Fun
It is a beautiful house and looks like a lot more beautiful houses in the surrounding neighborhood.
You're both so nice. Thank you.
I really enjoyed the video for one of my favorite shows. One correction, though: the show did debut in 1970. I remember watching it. I was in the 7th grade and was ticked off that it replaced Petticoat Junction in that time slot. One episode in, however, and I was hooked and completely forgot PJ. Been a favorite all these years.
buddy51 Thanks for the correction. Glad you enjoyed the vlog! A great show and a great person. :-)
MattsRadShow Thank YOU. I’ve always been fascinated by that house and it was great seeing it up-close-and-personal in your video. The other locations were great too. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
Wow, really? I also like Petticoat Junction. That and Green Acres were my favorite vintage shows until I discovered MTM about a year ago.
@@kahliatangazi448 In 1970 there was something called the "rural purge," at CBS. The network dumped Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies and replaced them with edgier, more hip shows like MTM and All in the Family.
This means so much to me.
I am here now
Thank you
It's 3 years later, but thought I'd share that MTM show in It's entirely is in UA-cam. I'm on season 6...and she gained notoriety as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show--also on YT!
I met Mary on the set of a movie in 1984 truly lovable lady
awesome video man! im gonna watch it with my grandma tomorrow. she loves that show..
lkporter1989 That's awesome! Hope she enjoys it.
I spent last Friday evening watching episodes and interviews of Mary with my 85yr old mom... she loves her to pieces... and so do I :)
thanks, for doing this!
Great job!!
Thanks so much for this; I used to love watching this show on Nick at Night :)
Emily Culley Yay!!! Nick at Night was the best.
I was in Minneapolis a couple of years ago and the statue was removed due to road work in the area then! I was told that where the statue was, was not quite where Mary tossed her hat as it would be in the middle of where people walked.
Mary Tyler Moore said in an interview that she was in the street itself when she threw up her hat, and that is why the woman behind her doing that footage is looking at her as if to say, "What is that crazy woman doing?" Later on, that woman contacted Mary and told her she feared for her life being in the street and really did think she was crazy. Funny.
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Hey guys are You from Minneapolis? I think this is cool! I grew up in Minnesota! I Loved to see All the familiar places from the Mary Tyler Moore show!
Show is on you tube.
THIS IS EXCELLENT.....but Mary's apt was on the 2nd floor...Rhoda had the third (Phyllis first)/...check some old episodes,,,those doors/windows are on the 2nd floor
Nice job been looking for this thanks
*MattsRadShow:* Very interesting guys! Thanks for the video - great job!!! Any idea what they're planning to do with the "Mary Tyler Moore Table"?!
Love this one too and the Prince one was epic! ❤
The statue was moved briefly while they were doing renovation on Nicollet Mall. It has been moved back since.
i lived across the street from that house. in 1971-73 tour buses did come by and people would chip off the stone on the front of the house and the owners were harassed. they eventually hung huge banners outside that read impeach nixon. the tours ended after that. the inside of that house is extraordinary. there is a ballroom and a bowling alley. it is absolutely lovely. i hope whoever buys it does not destroy it. our house was ransacked after we moved. the new owners took out the remarkable leaded glass window to sell. the original features were all modernized which ruined the charm. i loved our house. i still dream about it.
Great video
There is great footage of the making of the 1973 opening, Look up-You Tube [ Mary tyler moore 1973 behind the scenes in minneapolis- Moore on sunday wcco tv] You will love this.
Shared it! What a gorgeous house! I couldn't afford the property tax much less the house lololol You guys are such a joy to watch! Looks like you had an awesome day! I didn't realize how many things were filmed in Minnesota! Crazy cool! Thanks for sharing all these locations! Looking forward to more adventures! So cool! Keep living the dream!
Rambling Redhead Thanks for sharing it! Means alot. and yeah property tax must be a small fortune each year. super nice neighborhood too. Always fun to do an episode together. :-)
@@MattsRadShow Have you got one on where McMillan and Wife was filmed. Looks lovely in San Francisco, though it must be different by now. Used to love watching them in the seventies.
Really enjoyed thank you.
I just wondering if it really real or set on stage like most sitcom, but even if usually set on stage in studio from the inside view but using the real one as the background, so i wonder where exactly does this sitcom take place, especially where it describe beautifully where there's a lake that in the winter became an ice, people walking, looking mary walking across the street, zooming from the street to where the building mary meet someone or work (not sure), turns out u both making it real my wishes to get to know this, thx u so much for fulfilling my curiosity
Sounds like Mary Tyler Moore was such a lovely lady, had I met her, she would have really liked me, well of course as a family friend.
Very cool man, enjoyed this a lot
adamthewoo Thanks man. Was definitly worth a day exploring the locations. :-)
Hey Adam, thanks for introducing me to Matt in your vlog awhile ago.
that was fun
You guys did good !
RIP ED ASNER. We only have BETTY now, and of course, re-runs!
Awesomeness
The MTM show never asked permission to film the exterior of the house, and it caused enormous problems fro the owner, who was constantly being asked to give tours, at all hours.
Yes, when they came back again, Paula hung a big banner saying Impeach Nixon and would not take it down. They never paid her, which totally sucks. That's why Mary moved to Cedar Square West, and Paula had to sell the house to have piece of mind.
He put up a impeach Nixon sign and they stopped filming in later seasons
Nothing about the Cedarsquare West for Mary's downtown digs from the last season?
I'm so glad I found this video, thanks for making it! It is so well-done! I'm a huge fan of the show and I just visited Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and visited most of these places. Your video really helped me find the places! I have a few photos on my Instagram of me at these places. @cyntheory
Sigh, DONALDSON's burned down (1982)...DAYTON'S became MACY'S, (that MACY'S location is now closed)…and there was a sculpture commissioned by DAYTON'S called "The Spinner" (1967) by Alexander Calder, (now in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden), in front of the store on the then new pedestrian only Nicollet Mall. The IDS building (where MTM comes up the escalator and has lunch with her HUSBAND GRANT TINKER) wasn't completed until 2 years after the show premiered (that shot was added/updated for the 2nd season) after the CRYSTAL COURT was completed. Also, BASIL'S has since closed--that part of the mall is dead. I want to cry when I see your video of what once was.
I recently watched outside of them filming the opening all around town.
Thdd Ed show was on September 19 1970 to March 1977
Hey Matt! Cool vid.
Thank you! After seeing this video, I hope to visit your town someday and experience the "Mary Tyler Moore" landmarks in person. :)
Awesome! Hope you can too!
I wonder how far the house used for exteriors was from the building where she supposedly worked? On the show, she never seemed to have problems commuting and on a several occasions she popped home for a short time if I recall correctly before going back to work.
This veiwer loves the idea of World Class Jazz & Pop Vocalist - Ms. Angelina Jordan to Play the Role, Mary Tylor Moore if it were to come back...
This is awesome. Great to see a fun, young couple so appreciative of the show. I've been marathon binging it these days. Feel nostalgic. Amazing how sweet yet politically incorrect it could be (what's w/Mary inviting every guy back to her place for coffee and her boss showing up drunk any time he felt like it?!). I won't be getting to Minneapolis any time soon, so I rely on Google Maps for my spying. I think the exact Lake of the Isles white pantsuit shot (opening credits) can be found at 2322 Grand Rounds National Byway. I compared your video to Google Maps, and the homes in the background match up.
Thx so much for caring/sharing...
If only you lived in the city from my favorite 1970s show WKRP.
nintendolunchbox Cincinnati. Never been. maybe I'll have to go. :-)
The man Mary’s eating with, and walking down the street with, is Grant Tinker, who was the president of NBC, and her husband.
I've been at MPLS last June and the state is back in Hennepin and 7th.
I loved your video Matt!
pmontgo1 Thanks! Was a fun episode to shoot. :-)
Good ol Americana TV from the 70s.
the very best TV!
It was a Florsheims dept store
More like "Ashley's Rad Show" .....great video guys! You two make a great team! #MRS
captainakron27 Haha. Yeah thanks man! It can be Ashleys Rad Show too. :-)
You got it wrong her show was on from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977
How did Rhoda live upstairs from Mary?
That's what I was thinking 🤔
Apparently Rhoda’s place was upstairs from Mary’s……?? Another dimension.
thanks for the video. great job.
Christopher Young Your welcome Christopher. Thanks for watching.
Sonny Curtis of The Crickets (Buddy Holly) wrote that opening theme song....
Love your videos. What about doing the old Hawaii 5-0 program?
I was hoping you’d go to the building where her second apartment was-the high-rise one.
Riverside Towers. Today, the buildings are rundown, shabby, and infested with gangs. It is a modern urban ghetto that the locals call the 'crack stack'. The "RAINBOW GHETTO" because of the colored panels on the sides
Great video. Do you happen to know where the closing shot was filmed? Mary is seen walking with her date in the city at twilight and a bus is passing by. The last shot before the MTM cat logo.
240clay98 hey there. I have the same question. That shot is so sweet and touching. It can actually bring me to tears if the mood is right in my life at the time.
You do know you can watch all of the episodes on UA-cam right
Where did Rhoda live? When she was in Mary;s place ad had to leave she always said upstairs
She lived in the attic apt
I thought that Mary had the whole top of the house
very cool
crazycatlady Thanks. you always say "very cool" I'm only allowing one more "very cool" and then you have to come up with a different comment.
:-P
Trying like crazy to get the exact location on maps to find the exact waling path. I think I found the area. But maps has pics where all the trees have leaves and the view is from the road, not the walking path.
Lake of the Isles. She passes her producers in the shot.
Uhhh...name of the lake? Street name? "The" church?