Farewell Warner Ranch - Tearing Down Movie & T.V. History
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The Warner Bros. Ranch (formerly called the Columbia Ranch) is a movie ranch located at 411 North Hollywood Way in Burbank, California. Opened in the 1930s, it was used as the backdrop for films and television shows by Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros.
The list of Columbia films and Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television shows produced at the ranch include: Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Show, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, Bewitched, Gidget, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees, The Flying Nun, Here Come the Brides, The Partridge Family, The Hathaways, The Waltons, Lost Horizon, High Noon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Were Never Lovelier, Lethal Weapon, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, WandaVision, The Wild One, The Wrecking Crew, Autumn Leaves, National Lampoon's Vacation, Moving, Monster Squad, CHiPs, Small Soldiers, Home Improvement & More
Great video buddy . Such a shame and heartbreaking to see.
The bttf mall now this place Adam soon there'll be nothing left at all.
The bttf mall is gone ?!!!!
Out with the old in with the new
@@jayvalentine2046 No they're building in the car park area. Kurt did an earlier vid on it with Adam the woo.
@@jerkusclownstar Out with history in with offices. 😂
That’s very sad . Should have been a museum of history neighborhood. People just don’t have any respect for the past anymore. Thank you for showing this.
Who would pay for that museum? Who would own the land and be liable for injuries and upkeep?
Oh come on it's all business ... how many museums do we need.. how may people do you think would pay for that tour not enough to continue business in HoLyWood. It's cool to see this but life goes on, and guess what? It's not all make believe. The reality of Hollywood, business, celebrities and making money. We all should concentrate on our own neighborhoods. This just makes me think of how much time I spent in front of a t.v. being the youngest of 7 in Ohio. where was my mom? It's kind a gross how much I remember from make believe. My son was never raised in front of a television. Although he finds Mathew Perry's death "sad" imagine. These homes were fake structures. Perhaps if "they" offered them to homeless humans then it could be real.
they actually hate the past. they are erasing it on purpose.
Maybe they could have auctioned them off.
@@KutWrite Who would pay? As an example, the Neon Museum & Boneyard in Las Vegas sells out 365 days a year. So there is that.
It's just disgusting they did this - it had just been incredible knowing that in just this one small location that thousands of celebrities had passed over that property to film so many shots or scenes over the last almost 90 years.
All hail celbutards .. Tough jobs they had. Oh please "disgusting". Did you ever believe this was not a business. Be grateful it stayed as long as it did. How about created fake houses for the homeless?
It's not disgusting in the least. Not many people cared. Except a small bunch moaning on UA-cam about it...
Grow the fuck up
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Clearly your mother didn't hug you enough.
@@sarahlynn7894 😏..yeah that it. You hit the nail right on the head. If I had been hugged I would have been crying about an old shack that was remade over dozens of times and not 100% original anymore... 😂
Oh my God, all the movies and shows filmed there being destroyed, feels like a part of my past is gone forever. Just glad we have a guy like you to document it all during the time it was here thanks Kurt for all the effort you put in doing these videos.
Oh please! They were never real homes ... Another person brainwashed by HoLLyWood, What were your parents teaching you at that age? Hmmm... "hey son just stare at imaginary life in hollywood".
What???😂.
This is a great way to explain it. Some of us grew up during the infancy of broadcast television and grew up watching it evolve to what it became. These shows and movies are history and the filming locations should've been considered the same. It's a damn shame.
OUTSTANDING VIDEO. I'm a retired Camera man/editor . . . very well done. Nicely paced. As for the content, you are a true historian!! This is a crime against mankind! Seriously. "All those moments lost, like tears in rain"
I'm sure you have a fabulous memories of your time in 🎥 Thank you for your captures !!!❤️🎥
A crime against humanity???? Ahhh hahahahahahahaha... 😂
I am particularly sad they tore down the corner where the "Bewitched" house was. That whole block is so iconic to me. Morning Glory Circle and the Partridge Family House as well as "Father Knows Best" & "Gidget". Whenever I see exterior shots from any one of those shows....I always spot the connecting outdoor set from a different show....so the whole thing had a sort of TV land feel. I don't know how many times I saw the "Bewitched" house in long shots from "The Partridge Family" & "I Dream of Jeannie" When I was a kid, I thought it was so cool that all those shows were in the same neighborhood. LOL. Oh well....nothing lasts forever, especially in show business. Thanks for the tour and the info. You did a good job.!!!
Excellent. You and several others have documented the churning demolition of the ranch. You focused on the Columbia years, which I appreciated. The lethal Weapon house belonged to the Baxters long before. The Monkees,
Dennis the Menance, Gidget, Jeannie and Samantha. Eating Trix cereal while watching. I gave the guard 10.00 in 96 to do a drive through circle of Blondie street. It meant that much to me as a 35 year old adult to see these homes.
I worked for The WB Television Network on the Ranch lot from 2001-2006. Really sad to see this all being torn down. Lots of great memories working there and many of days walking around the entire lot on my lunch or during a break.
I never figured out why they did not have it where people could see it. The only way apparently you could tour it is if you knew somebody that worked there at the time or something. I seized several people going with friends that work there. I just never knew anybody that worked there personally, I would have given my right arm to tour that lot when it was intact before any of the demolition started. It’s really a sad situation and a shame that this happened. I guess it was the decision of the new CEO. He obviously doesn’t give a damn about preservation or history. I mean this lot goes way back almost 90 years all the famous people that have passed through. There is amazing. And now it’s gone.
Yeah, it was also the headquarters of Warner Bros. Animation from 2007 to last year.
My favorite sitcom was shot there. You did not mention, but nine seasons of the Middle was shot there. They used every location on the ranch. It was Orson, Indiana. Catch any epoisde on Max and you can clearly see Warner ranch. The Heck house was the Bel Air house. Great video!
That's true. The Middle was such a great show.
As soon as he showed the house I was like THE HICKS!!!
Loved when Brooke Shield would guest star as Rita Glossner@@larryhampton7587
Yes! I knew it looked familiar. Never heard of most of the other shows. ✌
When I was 19 years old, I had a chance to work there as a key grip/runner. I still regret not taking that job! It was another one of those things that we(I) at the time didn't realize what was right in front of me! Approaching 50 years old now, the advice I give to young people more than anything is..."Avoid the safe route!" I went to college instead of taking that job! ...like I opened with...I still regret not taking that job!
to contrast i went the other way -- opted to self teach myself and chase that dream. im now a steadicam operator and camera operator for over 34 years, i worked on this lot a few times and its sad to see it go -- wish i would have been able to walk through there one more time.
Man that hit me in the feels...Gidget, Bewitched, Home Improvement, and WandaVision Warner Brothers could have extended their tour with Warner Ranch. Man, nothing is held sacred anymore 😢
Rip
I remember how many people were pissed off at Tim Allen damaging the Bewitched house, they did a story on it with interviews on Entertainment Tonight to let people know they did not damage it so what the hell does that tell you it tells you people love the house, they should of and maybe they did I don't know, I doubt it, tore it down and rebuild it on the universal lot, it's a freaking heirloom
I just drove by there the other day (Nov. 2, 2023) on Hollywood Way and the covered gate entrance was opened and the ranch was totally leveled - how depressing. Love your tour and the memories and what house was what. Very informative. Thanks so much for this important video.
That's very sad,what is going on in this world we now live in making movies without real sets?,hating all this change as I get older,thanks for making the video Kurt.
I embrace most change. I'm not going to be clueless like my parents. I will keep up as long as I can...
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It really sucks seeing all that history being torn down. 😞
hollywood doesn't care about old shit.. it was cool back then but time to move on
Kinda like all the statues being ripped out.
Big time. That’s why when I visit LA I make sure to visit historical places
But wait< it wasn't real history .. It was created by HoLyWooD
Thanks for doing this. It’s so sad to see memories being bulldozed. 😢😢😢
Thanks for your work on this.
The roofs appear to have been used by the local fire departments as practice for their crews. When a local builder was getting rid of older homes, they would “donate” the house to the fire dept so they could practice breaching the roof, walls, etc. they might even burn it down for the contractor.
they paved paradise and put up a parking lot....or office space as the case may be. Sad...
Those old facades were not paradise.... 😂
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@@Anth230 Maybe not to you, but for television and movie enthusiasts, those facades meant paradise in another sense. The shows and movies filmed there took us away, to a kind of paradise where we could watch a show and get immersed and forget about other things for awahile.
That my Friend, is Paradise to me.
@@macwyll They are immortalized on film. Most people who are crying about this had zero chance of ever visiting them. Plus if they were so cherished why didn't someone step up and buy a couple of the facades?? They are all easily rebuilt if someone wants to play Bewitched/I dream of Jeannie or the Partridge Family. The truth is they were in a state of disrepair and had been made over so many times they really weren't all original anymore. Take the original Star Trek Enterprise for example. Two great fan recreations of the sets. Both can be visited by fans. Maybe someone will recreate a couple of the facades one day. Doubtful though because the fan base just isn't there for the shows..
I'm sadden. I had no idea. so many great shows and movies. Great memories for me personally. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for documenting this, and a little sad for me. I worked for The Burbank Studios (TBS) when jointly owned by Warner Bros and Columbia, back in the early 80's. I was a security guard there and worked the graveyard shift. So many memories of walking around these facades, and watching how they were changed/dressed for the different TV shows and movies being filmed.
That's very sad to see recently a pub in my area of England which date's back to 1765 was knocked down it brings a tear to my eye when things like this happen great video as always Kurt 👍
Thanks for sharing its a shame these locations are gone forever
Allegory for the nation at large.
Thanks for documenting, Kurt!
Kurt, thank you very much for showing the demoliton of this historic TV and Film set. You are right,! The Warner Ranch should be preserved and made into a tourist site for everyone to see. Most of us have watched the scenes from the tv shows and films that were shot at Warner Ranch. I am certain that most folks did not know about this, and thanks again for bringing this to light. Great Job Kurt!
Who would pay for that conversion? Who would own the land and be liable for injuries and upkeep? Who would pay to upgrade the structures, which are flimsy and unsafe? Who pays for compliance with the ever-growing list of government "regulations" at the city, county, state, and federal levels?
It's great to feel nostalgic, but this kind of thinking actually contributes to the demolition of more sites as the taxes and other costs go up and profits move to other activities.
That is not profitable, people die and new generations come it. Unless you want to take over the expenses. My kid doesn't give a crapy about the Partridge family .. Sad gen x'ers watching way to much tele.
State, county and city taxes. Warner Bros can also help pay.for upgrade and upkeep. Like some other states,tourism is a big buisness in CA, it is not going to cause the demolition of other tourist sites.@@KutWrite
@@margaretschaffner9133 I don't need to take over the expenses, the tourist site would pay for itself. You should have your kid watch Metv instead of the crap that's on tv nowadays.
Thanks for documenting this. The Bel Air house was most recently used as the Hecht house for the TV show The Middle. The Partridge family house was most recently used as meemaw's house from Young Sheldon. The city buildings were also used in the 70s movie Omega Man.
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Thank you so much for filming this, yes, I want to know about it. I'm devastated watching this! How could they? It's bad enough the other one caught on fire and it was destroyed. But to do it on purpose?! Totally heartbroken here! 💔 😢
wow super sad thats was an awesome video great idea i did not know some of your infomation thanks for sharing
Thank you. Because of these videos, we do have a record. We can say, “I remember when!”
Heartbreaking! A piece of my life.
Hello from England thank you for sharing this sad video im huge xmas vacation fan so sad to see it gone forever thank you again for sharing
This is so sad! I have a love of Hollywood backlot lore and when they tear down these iconic places (or they burn down in some cases) I always feel the loss. These places are home to so many creative memories, and then they are just gone. Fantastic job on the video!!
So sad. Thanks for sharing. There’s lots of history there. 😢
3:47 - The Bellaire house was featured in the entire 9 year run of the excellent sitcom “The Middle” from 2009 to 2018. I know it as the Heck House. They used nearly every structure on those streets during the run of the show including the Walton movies house and the pool.
Yes! I loved the Middle.
This is sickening, cant believe they have torn down the 80s history. Xmas vacation house. How sad.
Great videos as always.
Being an 80s kid and living in uk 🇬🇧 its lovely to see older filming locations. So thank you.
Ive seen many but yours is the best channel. I wish someone would do a critters location (the original) i love that film.
I wonder if the house was built on that farm. Or just a stage area.
Well one day I hope someone revisit that film and do a video.
Anyway great video as always. Thank you. Uk 🇬🇧 80s kids love these :)
Do you want to pay it's expenses? Come on humans .. HoLLyWoRld isn't "real"
The Bel Air house is also the Heck family house from The Middle, a wonderful show. The Middle probably got more use out of the whole ranch than any other show.
Nice work!!! By the way, all of the square holes in the roofs were done by the fire department for training purposes.
Thank you again kurk for creating this video and all your amazing great videos man
You're the best 👌
Aw man, my heart hurts. Had a chance to work on the ranch many times as a background actor. Great history there.
Little fun fact. The square holes you see on the roofs. That's done by the fire department. They are practicing cut holes for ventilation. You know, fire in the house, make hole in roof to get smoke and hot gases out. So you don't burn up the crews.
I love filming locations and the work that you do especially Griswold's house
There were some BEAUTIFUL trees there too!
Great video. So much entertainment history in one location.
Thanks for sharing this video, sucks that this is all gone😢
Absolutely thank you for let us know I’m in NYC and I always wanted to see be Bewitch home 😢😢😢😢 I’m so so sad…. Everything is changing too fast
I didn't even know this place existed before watching this video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
AdamTheWoo has a nice video tour inside from last year.
Very Sad part of movie and TV history. Thanks for the update Kurt.
That was hard to watch 😢I never realized how much stuff was filmed there Thanks for making this vid I'm going to have a few beers tonight and pour one out for the history that's gone now
Love love love what you do. Thank you for this and all your videos
What a sad moment in Hollywood history!
What a bummer. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the extra information you've included. Some other UA-cam creators didn't have as much info.
Good Job Kurt! I have been watching quite a number of videos of people walking through this back lot and pointing out the history.. You did an excellent job summarizing and it is sad to see this go.
I have so many memories as a youth here... I was raised in Burbank in the 70's and early 80's and we used to climb up over a trash bin behind the grocery store and over the block fence. On the other side back then was the set of Fantasy Island and the white mansion with its tower. We used to explore all over the ranch and hide from the guards and never got caught. That said we never damaged and left everything as it was. I guess you could say we were among the first urban explorers. I miss the old Burbank. Thank you for this video, nice work.
Great summary of what was filmed here and what's been happening with its depressing progress. Thanks for another wonderful video!
That central pool was featured in several episodes of Bewitched, as well as the surrounding area used as a park.
Great video!
Thanks for this one. Very sad this has happened and to think it will just be office buildings and sound stages that will replace all this makes it worse.
Thank you again for pointing all the important buildings out.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m seriously bummed out about this.
So much pop culture history on this ranch and now it’s all gone forever.
Proving once again that the all mighty dollar is all that matters to Hollywood.
Chances are, increasing taxes and regulations contributed to this decision. Yes, a studio is a for-profit company. Would you, as a shareholder, not want your stock to climb in value?
Those empty homes that are not real, don't pay the mortgage.
So sad to see it go. In the 1970s, my parents used to take me to that ranch every year for some benefit event called "Actors for Animals," which featured a lot of actors from that era like Loretta Swit, MIchael Cole and Mariette Hartley. I have a bunch of photos from those events. For me, the highlight was being able to walk around and see all the houses and other sets. Great video as always! You channel is always must-see TV!
I’m devastated! I always wanted to see it with my own eyes, not just on a screen.
I watched back to back episodes of Bewitched trying to see shots of the outside. The trees were beautiful thru out the whole lot.
I used to work at Warner Bros. and the ranch on a number of shows.
The tear down was in the works for years- AT&T (when they owned WB) ordered the whole thing when they were still pushing the streaming show thing really hard. But then COVID, the sale to WB to Discovery, and the WGA/SAG strikes happened (not to mention the fact the streaming thing didn’t pan out the way they thought), which mothballed everything for a while until recently.
The saddest part is that WB ended up selling the ranch to a third party, choosing to lease stage use instead.
So you know there’s a chance something will happen and those stages will be trashed for high-dollar condos at some point…
Gotta build a place for all the illegals to live, on our tax dollars!
Thanks for documenting everything. Great video. Thanks for all the history that you share and bring to us all.
Many thanks for the video and greetings from Poland 😊
Thank you for sharing this video!! I had no idea how much history was here at the Warner Ranch!! 😢. I did background work here before, and had no idea about this. Thank you
This is so sad! :( Thanks for sharing everything with us!
Thank God you and a few others have recorded video on this! It's a shame to see all this go! such memories!
It's a shame to see it all go. So much movie history! Atticus shaffer who played brick heck on the show the middle did a vlog recently about the warner ranch because the middle was filmed there. He has behind the scenes footage you might find interesting. Thanks for documenting it all Kurt!
the drone footage is especially rare to show off the studio! Great job!
Amazing video. You are the best to do it
Thank you so much for sharing, I really enjoy all your videos! So sad that their demolishing the WB ranch.
Thank you! I grew up in the 80’s and my ringtone currently is Cyndi Laupers Goonies r’ good enough. Sad Sad day to see all that stuff be wiped away.
Amazing video. I am always impressed with all that you know. But also such a depressing video, seeing so much history being demolished. I wish these types of things meant as much to today's generations as they do to ours.
Nice job kurt
Sad to see all that destruction
Lethal weapon house😢
Wow, just wow. It's crazy to think of all that history just gone. I can't understand why they couldn't preserve it. Thank you for documenting the final days.
It takes money(not that there isnt any in Burbank, but still) and the land brings more tax dollars in as apartments or something, than movie sets.
So sad😢. Practical effects look so much better than CGI. How does Hollywood not understand that.
GREAT VIDEO TO REMEMBER FOR A LIFE TIME ,, LIKE YOU SAID ITS ALL GOING AWAY!!!! ITS HISTORY I AM IN MY 60S ,,WHAT A DAM SHAME .. PEOPLE DONT CARE ABOUT HISTORY UNTIL LATER THEY SAY WE SHOULD OF SAFED THAT? THANKS AGAIN, GREAT VIDEO TO SEE ..
Imagine being the construction worker that is operating the machine that demolishes all of these houses.
Killer, comprehensive breakdown! Some fantastic history, there, thanks for this episode!
Thank you for making this video. I just found your channel. I’m really sad to see this location is gone. So many memories! Thank you!
Sad to see it get torn down. Great video though
Thanks for the tip off about this channel Josh! Sad for history indeed.....
Thanks for the interesting video. Very sad to see all of that history gone. I'm in Hayling Island in the UK so never would have got the opportunity to see what you showed us, so thank you!
Thank you for this walk down my childhood history… wish they could have preserved it, but it being Cali, all land is prime real estate…why have practical sets and locations when everything is green screen and AI… so sad, but thank you for preserving this bit of movie/tv history for us Gen X’ers who a bit nostalgic!
What a bummer. So much movie and TV history.
That was pretty fascinating! I'd always known about Clock Tower Square from Back to the Future, but I didn't realize this area still existed! I thought these were gone a long time ago! Thanks!!👍
Saved me a trip to los Angeles they tore my entire childhood down 😢😢😢 very sad and depressing
Just walked past there myself, today. So sad to see it gone.
I learned not too long ago that the fountain used in Friends was also in a musical I saw when I was a kid from 1973 titled, "1776."
Excellent video. Very sad indeed. Hollywood history. Tours should have continued there for fans.
Thank you for showing us this, especially the drone footage. Even though it's painful to see, at least you were able to document the last days of such priceless movie and TV history that we value. As for me, I am not at all a fan of the CGI/digital background or virtual sets and hope there will be directors, cast and producers who counter that trend with old school physical sets and locations...and keep using the backlots that still exist or make new ones going forward.
thank you. for making and sharing this. it is hard to watch it all go
thank you for posting this video, I'm viewing from the UK, we got most of the shows here on TV, so sad to see a part of TV and movie history being bulldozed like that. Tv and film production has changed, as you mention streets can now be created using Cgi, ...it is a sad state of affairs, one day the trend will change and film makers will want to go back to using realistic physical sets, and I think studio executives are going to say...." gee, that's a shame we destroyed that backlot , what a mistake that was.."
Thank you for sharing. I'm just finding out about all of this today (Feb 20th 2024). I had no idea so much history from my 60's/70's childhood was being torn down and ripped away. Rip to *1964 Morning Glory Circle* and the *Bewitched* cast...
The lethal weapon house😩. Love that movie.
Glad you made this video. So much of my childhood TV memories are on that sight. Columbia pictures owned the Ranch before Warmer and one of the funniest episodes of the 3 stooges was filmed there. The episodes where the stooges were in boot camp preparing to go to war when Curley was asked by the drill Sargent to perform a demonstration and ended up throwing his rifle at the drill Sargent. Hilarious.
Don’t cry that it’s over. Smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss
But it is a sad thing. Thank you for making this video.
Thanks for capturing this and glad you filmed this. Very sad.
Wow what a shame
I am not too sure and could be wrong but I think meemaw's house in last years season finale of young sheldon when the tornado destroyed Meemaw's home it was the partridge house in it's first stages of being torn down..
another great video Kurt
and I was today's date old when I found out from you that there was a house called the Lindsay house (my last name) on Gidgit which my older sisters would remember but I was a little too young for that show...
Tim in Toronto...
I agree, I believe since the whole lot was to be demolished anyway, Young Sheldon's producers found they were clear to destroy the Partridge house for the tornado scene, hence why all you see is the back walls in this video. You can see the greenish back wall in the Young Sheldon episode amidst the debris (which also exposed the original gambrel framing )
Sobering indeed. Thank you for your posting.
Sad video today Kurt. But I suppose that’s progress. Thanks for the memories.
Hi. I have been following these current videos about Warner Brothers Ranch and wanted to Thank You for posting this. I’m shocked and It’s really sad to see it all destroyed. Shame on them for not preserving the area. I’m an 80’s kid and the best movies ever. They sure can’t away the memories.
You're right , this shouldn't have been torn down , thanks for sharing.
You didn't mention the Heck House (Bel Air) from 9 seasons of the Middle. Also the blueish two story house next to the pool was the George Lopez tv sitcom house. I think the Bewitched house gets to my inner child the most.
I hope they replanted some of the trees to other places because if not that was a lot of beautiful landscaping lost. 😢
The drone footage is very professional here. Thx for sharing the sad news.