Noticed it and almost didn't watch, thought this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Turns out (after watching the others before this one) you by far have the best video, very detailed and informative. Good job.
You get a pass young man. Hell, you weren’t even alive when Smokey and the Bandit was made. Great video by the way. Enjoyed the heck out of it. Thank you.
I've been going back and looking at all these classic movies from my childhood in the 70s more and more because of how much pain our country has been going through lately and videos like yours have really helped . I know how much time and effort it takes to put together vids like this ...So I just wanted to say Thank You My Friend
I'm glad you showed Redan Elementary school and where the cemetery was/ is .... Where they were held up by the funeral. I grew up travelling down that road most of my life. Leaving Stone Mountain from where I lived and heading to my dad's parent's house in Lithonia or to my mom's parent's house in Conyers Ga. When I was born my dad's parents lived in one of those houses right by the cemetery. Thank you for sharing all of these filming locations of Smoking and the Bandit. I still love that movie too . Oh and when Burt Reynolds had his house in Loganville Ga. and then he moved out and sold the house. They had an Estate sale and my mom bought his bar stools . She still has them to this day .
I was born and raised in Georgia. Never knew Smokey and the Bandit was filmed in Jonesboro. Been through there probably over a hundred times. Even ate at some little diner back in the 90s a few times. Pure small town Southern Americana. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Mike. 😊
I'm sure you just misspoke but at 0:17 you said in "1971" they made Smokey & the Bandit but was in fact made in 1976 and released in 77. Surprised nobody caught that.
Born in 2005, been watching smokey and the bandit since I was 4 or 5, its my favorite movie by far, and I plan to see all these locations eventually, thank you for the video
Wow you did a great job on this thanks I was 8 when the movie came out in 77 my dad was a truck driver and 2 years later he bought a brand new red Trans Am we really loved the movie Burt was my favorite actor loved all his movies. Again, great job man
I was born in the 2000s and this was on of my favorite movies growing up. The realistic crashes and peel outs were more impressive to me the F&F and other action packed driving moves. It’s simple in story yet so engaging, especially the driving
Some of the police cars used in the film were bought from my dad’s car lot. Sheriff Justice’s car is a ex Georgia State Patrol car as are most of them. That’s why the interiors are blue. The cars jumping in the water with hood scoops are old Dekalb County Police cars. They were very fast.
Thank you so much for actually telling us where these places are. Watched another video where they just showed them. This video is much, much better! THANKS!
Thanks Mike.I moved up from Georgia last year back to my home state Ohio.I had no idea they filmed the movie there.I shared your video on my Facebook so all my friends down there could see it.💖
Thank you Bro for bringing back great memories from my younger years. Great video and awesome job with the history of where everything was filmed. Looking forward to your next one
i remember standing in a line of about 50 people in front of us . That was the first night showing . great times ,great movie! Thanks so much ,this was fun.
Thank you for making this video. For some reason, I laugh the most at Jr. saying "He had a lot of friends didn't he..." while the funeral procession is going by. I always laugh the hardest at that scene. "He had a lotta friends, didn't he..." and they put their hats over their hearts to be polite. It's hilarious. And now, I know where that scene took place. Thank you for that.
That scene is funny as heck, especially the way the Sheriff gives that digusting look like, "Oh, the hell w/it..!" And takes off his hat and places it over chest! 😂🤣😅
That actor (Mike Henry) was the perfect sidekick for Sheriff Justice. Just for the contrast in their personalities. He would set up the joke and Jackie would deliver the punchline. FYI - Mr Henry also played Tarzan in the TV version of that classic.
This movie was a permanent fixture in our VCR back in the day. This was such a fun video to watch - you really did your homework!! Thank you for this amazing walk down memory lane.
Yo Bama Mike, yeah I grew up watching Smokey and the Bandit and that’s one of my favorite truck movies too and I thought it’s so cool that you went to some of the film locations and recreate the shots. I drive trucks now and been doing it since 1989. Thank you for making this video and hope to see more from you and take care now.
You have me in stitches Mike... "Daddy, the top came off" "No $h¡+" I remember this movie and now I have to watch it again! I'll always LOVE that bridge scene!
Thanks for the great video and the memories. The movie came out during my high school junior year. Is my all time favorite movie which never fails to put a huge smile on my face.
I’ve been to the location in Redan Ga, where the school and the cemetery is. In the movie on the road that the funeral traffic is coming out, if you go down that road about mile - the baseball field where the Trans Am gets airborne and lands sideways and plows into the dugout.
I used to live in that area. Your shot in downtown Jonesboro, where you said "fiddle dee dee", is the location on the fictional Tara in "Gone With the Wind". That building is a Gone With the Wind museum. Another interesting fact.
In the movie when Burt breaks the fourth wall and smiles at the camera, at that time our dad looked identical to what Burt Reynolds looks like when he looks at the camera, we used to say that’s the moment when Burt Reynolds did his imitation of our dad. My favorite part of the entire movie!!!!
77, 77 lol. Little slip at the start. I feel the further away we get from these films the less and less recognisable they are today. Trees gone, other trees 40 years older. Thank you for showing us some of the lesser seen locations
The small building on the old McDonough square was the police department building (at about 6:00 in the video). It's been gone for years though. I worked for the Clayton County Sheriff's Office during the filming and we provided traffic and crowd control. I got to see a lot of the scenes being filmed around Jonesboro and the south end of the county. One interesting fact is when they pickup the Coors beer from the warehouse, in the shots looking out of the business you always see Snowman's truck blocking the background. The old 1898 Courthouse and Sheriff's Office is directly across the street which is why they placed the truck to block them. We used to fish off the bridge he jumped when I was in High School. The bridge was all the way across the Flint River until they broke part of it for the filming.
Thanks man I really love these types of videos especially with these classic movies like Smokey and the bandit and I'm not joking to me it is a classic
Great video really enjoyed it i love that movie I remember seeing it when I was about 9 years old when it came out in England. The most talented guy in that movie was Jerry read he was also a singer and a brilliant song writer he wrote the songs Guitar Man and US Mail both songs made famous by Elvis. Thanks so much for putting the time in to do this.
B.M. - YOUR REALLY GOOD AT THIS I HOPE YOU CAN DO OTHER MOVIES TO !!! TO BAD THAT THEY DONT TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THESE HISYORY BUILDINGS LIKE THE GAS STATION DINER THAT LOOKS SAD..
I forgot how funny that film was. 1971 I was graduating high school, ( go Bombers). Saw it twice. You do really great match ups to movies. Thanks Michael I watched this twice as well! Always a classic. Stat healthy and safe my friend.
@@andyhamilton8940 thank goodness someone else noticed him say that right off the bat... made me wonder what the movie would have been with a 71 Pontiac instead, plus I always thought( and wondered if SALLY and the rest ever realized) that they would have had to change her nickname from Frog to RACCOON after that jump how she hides her eyes behind her knees.....
Gotta say this was fun. My all time favorite movie. I enjoy it today at 55 years as I did in the theater when it came out. I get the passion of seeing these spots. It would be fun.
45th Anniversary, watched, caught the 71, excellent recap on a non script movie, holds water in '22, can only imagine the chases in '81 vintage Detroit muscle...BTW, Enos Strait, was motorcycle cop b4 he was a deputy in Hazzard co.
That pink building just above your left shoulder, that was in the photoshoot for the album cover of Lynyrd Skynyrds first album. The cover photo used was just down from that
Mike I grew up in the 70s an 80s them movies back then was really worth going to I was with my grandparents in Daytona beach Florida an remembered sceeing the movie poster at bell air shopping center an the people that came out was talking about how great that movie was an the funny parts to man miss those days an I finally got to see it what a movie Burt sally jerry an jack what a cast thank you Mike for a going down member lane
Brilliant video this reminds me of being at my grandparents in the early 80s now I watch it wilt my son👌. Thanks for making the effort to take the time to make these videos. I just subscribed 👍👍👍
Good job Bama, excellent attention to detail finding all those filming locations. I grew up in a small town in Upstate NY and this film was one of my first exposures to southern culture. Loved your vid and the movie.
@@browsman2328 Awesome, thank you. I get sick of hearing people say they're from Upstate and they mean someplace like Monticello NY lol. I'm between Syracuse and Watertown myself.
Greetings and Love from New York.I Love the Movie Smokey and the Bandit..Bama this was such an Awesome Video. Thank You, It was so interesting to see the actually locations and the comparisons from the movie. You definitely get 2👍🏻👍🏻 for this one.Pls take care & stay safe & healthy❤️
Thanks Mike 🤠✌ This was very intresting to watch. AND you went out of your way to show us the location of that hump in the shopping plaze..your a Genius !! 😁 Appreciate you taking the time to do this brother 😎
Good eye for detail, especially for the pavement "hill" / hump in the shopping plaza, which as you noted is evident in the movie, with the other store area seen in the distance.
Great video, well done. Particularly like where you inserted the clips from the movie to give better idea of the current setting. This and Dukes of Hazzard where my all-time favorite when I was growing up, heck I still catch them when they are on some cable channels lol.
First mistake not 71 but 77. When he pick up Sally field that way Mundy mill road . where the truck was old Atlanta road and 1941 Hwy . it was old hickey house off of old Dixie Hwy . i was lucky enough to see them filmed most of it. The bridge jump that old bridge was out before the movie even started. I watched the stunt man jump it off of the bridge you was standing on. Thank you for taking time to share.
I wish you had of contacted me before you made this. I lived on fitzgerald rd, " just off mundys mill rd", And i WATCHED them film this movie, AND i have old photos of it as well. You can see our old house, and i have many relics you would be interested in. I live in monroe county now, But in the 70's i lived in clayton county.
I used to drive a big rig, we got the biggest kick out of the fact the trucks that were in the convoy would have never ever been in a real convoy. An empty logging truck, a moving truck etc. Too funny. HEY BANDIT, THIS IS LITTLE BEAVER.
@ about 14:28. There was a movie theater on that road. That's where I saw the movie with friends when it came out. Also, across the street was a "National Pride" car wash. We'd stop there on the way back from riding motorcycles in the woods on Sunday's to wash our the dirt off of our motorcycles. @ about 25:44 - we used to eat at that Old Hickory House restaurant when I was a child. So many memories - thanks big time for this video!
I agree with you one of my all-time favorites I saw that for the first time when I was 12 years old thought it was the greatest movie I ever saw. Boy has the locations changed I would never ever recognized them but that's progress.p
Great video. Not sure if you missed it, but right down the street (about a 1/4 mile) from the funeral procession scene on Phillips Rd was the football field they ran through. I grew up on that road.
I LOVE IT WHENEVER HE LOOKS DOWN THE CAMERA! Like he's caught you watching 😂 my fave film ever & Bandit was my first love at 7yrs old, even though he was 10yrs older than my Dad! 😂 I'm still looking for a Burt of my own... Rip Gorgeous Man 💜
The bridge jump location is on Flint River Rd. in Jonesboro. My grandma lived in the neighborhood about 1/2 mile from here, and when I was a kid in the early 80s we used to fish off of the old bridge they jumped. It was still partially standing back then. My parents first house is also visible in the movie, on Hewell Rd. They had to let them through the film set to get to their house , dad said they had about a dozen of the Trans Ams sitting there all beat up from the stunts. Burt Reynolds had a big house he bought during this time period on lake Spivey in Jonesboro as well, and there was an amphitheater there where alot of big music acts of the 70s played at the time. Another fun fact is that the Flint River in the 1970s had the largest population of Snapping Turtles of anywhere in the world. People caught so many of them to eat and to sell to soup companies that unfortunately they are kind of rare now. I grew up around here and everywhere around the Flint River the enormous turtles used to be everywhere.
So I grew up in Jonesboro and watched them film a lot of it. Just some info the shopping center the buildings in the front were not there when it was filmed. Also on the McDonough square where he hides that use to be raised up there was a 2 ft wall around the center of the square if you notice in the movie the car actually goes up a ramp. The old mill where the guy was fishing burnt down that called Mundys Mill rd. There’s a high school on the corner now. You did pretty good though
I was a police officer in the county that some of the scene was filmed and I worked with some of the officers that they used as extras for the movie and my cousin whom was a officer for the same county was killed in the line of duty at the intersection where the top was shered off.
The McDonough scene where Bandit smiles was not on the square but just off the square behind you when you were talking across the street from the courthouse.
Downtown Jonesboro was also the location that Lynyrd Skynyrd did there cover of one of their albums. The one where Ed King had lightning striking his head.
That was their first album "Pronounced". That lightning shot was the last picture took of an all day photo shoot. Bob Burns still had bloodshot eyes from getting hit with brass knuckles.
i was at the old hickory house this past sunday for farther's day for breakfast and noticed that a photo of Bandit was hanging on the wall made me curiously wonder if they shot the scene when bandits meets Sheriff Buford T Justice did a google search and you sir not only confirmed it but you sir and google confirmed that the old hickory house was the diner used for the scene in smokey and the bandit. To this day old hickory house still stands and they serve a reall good breakfast.
BAMA MIKE--- MAN YOU DID YOUR HOME WORK ON THIS MOVIE I REALLY ENJOYED IT!!!! GREAT VIDEO.. BY THE WAY ARE YOU MILITARY??? YOU HAVE A PARACORD BRACLET ON YOUR WRIST,, WITH A COMPASS ,, STRIKER,,, WHISLE,,.. THERE GREAT YOU UNDO IT YOU CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE OR OTHERS .. I HAVE TWO I AM AN ARMY MEDIC.. PEACE..!!!!
My father bought a black trans am in 1977. I’ve never asked him if he bought the car because of the movie. I think he didn’t because when the movie came out he parked it and rarely ever drive it.
Cool video. I used to work on Stone Mountain-Lithonia Rd at the International Paper across the street on the corner of MArbut.. If you recognize The convenient store when turning onto Stn Mountain Rd from Main St, that was the BIG A store in Dumber and Dumberer. We had to re-route while they filmed.
KI am at 20:05 right now where you just talked about Fred. You should add something about 'Fred' and how he came to be in the movie and where he came from, also. Jus' sayin'. Enjoying your discussion very much, though, so the earlier suggestion was not a criticism of any kind. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for this video. My deceased grandfather, who was a father to me loved the movie. I watched it with him as a child. This video is one of my favorite filming locations videos. If you have a filming locations video of the series The Dukes of Hazzard, please reply and let me know.
Firstly thank you, and secondly I do have a dukes of hazzard filming locations video, it was early on in my UA-cam video catalog so it’s not quite as good as this one but i did hit a lot of locations, I have thought about redoing it, as the dukes of hazzard is one of my favorite series ever, like you my dad and I watched it as I was growing up so it hold sentimental value to me, you can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/MctEMNA_BTY/v-deo.html
@@BamaMike I have a story to tell you about the Dukes. Every Friday my grandparents would take me out to a local pizza joint and we'd always get home just in time to see Waylon's guitar. If you redo the Dukes filming location let me know. In the mean time I'll check this one out. Thank you.
I realize I made a mistake and said 1971 instead of 1977 it was just a mistake and I misspoke,
Noticed it and almost didn't watch, thought this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Turns out (after watching the others before this one) you by far have the best video, very detailed and informative. Good job.
No sh#t 😅
🤣🤣 Just about pulled your SATB Card!! We’re good though!!
‘Bout to give you shit but appreciate the call out. Great video bro!
You get a pass young man. Hell, you weren’t even alive when Smokey and the Bandit was made. Great video by the way. Enjoyed the heck out of it. Thank you.
I've been going back and looking at all these classic movies from my childhood in the 70s more and more because of how much pain our country has been going through lately and videos like yours have really helped . I know how much time and effort it takes to put together vids like this ...So I just wanted to say Thank You My Friend
I'm glad you showed Redan Elementary school and where the cemetery was/ is .... Where they were held up by the funeral. I grew up travelling down that road most of my life. Leaving Stone Mountain from where I lived and heading to my dad's parent's house in Lithonia or to my mom's parent's house in Conyers Ga. When I was born my dad's parents lived in one of those houses right by the cemetery. Thank you for sharing all of these filming locations of Smoking and the Bandit. I still love that movie too . Oh and when Burt Reynolds had his house in Loganville Ga. and then he moved out and sold the house. They had an Estate sale and my mom bought his bar stools . She still has them to this day .
My FAVORITE movie of all time
I was born and raised in Georgia. Never knew Smokey and the Bandit was filmed in Jonesboro. Been through there probably over a hundred times. Even ate at some little diner back in the 90s a few times. Pure small town Southern Americana. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Mike. 😊
I'm sure you just misspoke but at 0:17 you said in "1971" they made Smokey & the Bandit but was in fact made in 1976 and released in 77. Surprised nobody caught that.
I caught it lol.
Oh, I didn't see this before I posted my reply.
First mistake i caught
i did
I caught it
Born in 2005, been watching smokey and the bandit since I was 4 or 5, its my favorite movie by far, and I plan to see all these locations eventually, thank you for the video
Lynyrd Skynyrds first album " Pronounced" album cover taken right behind you in your opening Mike😎
Sure is. The pic with lightning over Ed kings head.
This was fun Mike. I've never felt so lucky that I grew up in the 70s and 80s until 2020 😫
EXACTLY DAWN !!!...The last 2 great decades this country ever saw!!!
@@srpdesigns Amen!
I'm glad I'm not the only one, who has been obsessed with this Movie Since '77...
Hey Mike, This is AWESOME!!! One of my Favorite Movies! Your filming locations are Amazing. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
When they jump the bridge on flint River road I was there. I lived in Riverdale in the 70s and Jonesboro in the 80s. Thanks for doing a great job
Chambers , do you know any other Chamber from Roundtree Rd.?
Wow you did a great job on this thanks I was 8 when the movie came out in 77 my dad was a truck driver and 2 years later he bought a brand new red Trans Am we really loved the movie Burt was my favorite actor loved all his movies. Again, great job man
I was born in the 2000s and this was on of my favorite movies growing up. The realistic crashes and peel outs were more impressive to me the F&F and other action packed driving moves. It’s simple in story yet so engaging, especially the driving
Have only been watching you channel for police videos and now I find this Gem 😂❤👍 great video
Thank you for taking us back in time. Truly a timeless classic.
Some of the police cars used in the film were bought from my dad’s car lot. Sheriff Justice’s car is a ex Georgia State Patrol car as are most of them. That’s why the interiors are blue. The cars jumping in the water with hood scoops are old Dekalb County Police cars. They were very fast.
Thank you so much for actually telling us where these places are. Watched another video where they just showed them. This video is much, much better! THANKS!
One of the best SATB filming locations I have ever seen!!!! thank You!!!
Thanks Mike.I moved up from Georgia last year back to my home state Ohio.I had no idea they filmed the movie there.I shared your video on my Facebook so all my friends down there could see it.💖
Thanks that’s much appreciated
So far, the best SATB location video I've seen.
Thank you Bro for bringing back great memories from my younger years. Great video and awesome job with the history of where everything was filmed. Looking forward to your next one
I was building houses down in that area Fayette and Clayton counties, I saw them filming many times, on hwys 54 and 85....
i remember standing in a line of about 50 people in front of us . That was the first night showing . great times ,great movie! Thanks so much ,this was fun.
Thank you for making this video. For some reason, I laugh the most at Jr. saying "He had a lot of friends didn't he..." while the funeral procession is going by. I always laugh the hardest at that scene. "He had a lotta friends, didn't he..." and they put their hats over their hearts to be polite. It's hilarious. And now, I know where that scene took place. Thank you for that.
That scene is funny as heck, especially the way the Sheriff gives that digusting look like, "Oh, the hell w/it..!" And takes off his hat and places it over chest! 😂🤣😅
That actor (Mike Henry) was the perfect sidekick for Sheriff Justice. Just for the contrast in their personalities. He would set up the joke and Jackie would deliver the punchline.
FYI - Mr Henry also played Tarzan in the TV version of that classic.
This movie was a permanent fixture in our VCR back in the day. This was such a fun video to watch - you really did your homework!! Thank you for this amazing walk down memory lane.
Your recall of the filmed locations are Stellar. Thank you for a trip back down memory lane. This was thorough and most enjoyable 😉!!!!
Yo Bama Mike, yeah I grew up watching Smokey and the Bandit and that’s one of my favorite truck movies too and I thought it’s so cool that you went to some of the film locations and recreate the shots. I drive trucks now and been doing it since 1989. Thank you for making this video and hope to see more from you and take care now.
You have me in stitches Mike...
"Daddy, the top came off"
"No $h¡+"
I remember this movie and now I have to watch it again!
I'll always LOVE that bridge scene!
They used three cars to make the movie they totaled 1 in the bridge seen
Thanks for the great video and the memories. The movie came out during my high school junior year. Is my all time favorite movie which never fails to put a huge smile on my face.
I’ve been to the location in Redan Ga, where the school and the cemetery is. In the movie on the road that the funeral traffic is coming out, if you go down that road about mile - the baseball field where the Trans Am gets airborne and lands sideways and plows into the dugout.
I've been there too.
The diner is Old Hickory House. Only one location remains and it is in Tucker, GA.
I used to live in that area. Your shot in downtown Jonesboro, where you said "fiddle dee dee", is the location on the fictional Tara in "Gone With the Wind". That building is a Gone With the Wind museum. Another interesting fact.
In the movie when Burt breaks the fourth wall and smiles at the camera, at that time our dad looked identical to what Burt Reynolds looks like when he looks at the camera, we used to say that’s the moment when Burt Reynolds did his imitation of our dad. My favorite part of the entire movie!!!!
thank you for this .. i know there was a lot of effort for producing this, but truly brought a smile
Brilliant. Smokey and The Bandit is my favourite film ever. Thanks for putting this together, It's so cool seeing the filming locations.
Awesome... it's going to be etched in our memories forever.
Great video! Love this movie. Watched it over and over when I was growing up in the 90s. Thanks for this. Much love from UK.
77, 77 lol. Little slip at the start. I feel the further away we get from these films the less and less recognisable they are today. Trees gone, other trees 40 years older. Thank you for showing us some of the lesser seen locations
Very fine job spotting all these locations! I had no idea that the beginning location and the arrival location were int two blocks from each other!
I was a kid living in Clayton County Georgia when Smokie and the Bandit was filmed. Watching the movie is like going on a tour of my childhood.
The small building on the old McDonough square was the police department building (at about 6:00 in the video). It's been gone for years though. I worked for the Clayton County Sheriff's Office during the filming and we provided traffic and crowd control. I got to see a lot of the scenes being filmed around Jonesboro and the south end of the county. One interesting fact is when they pickup the Coors beer from the warehouse, in the shots looking out of the business you always see Snowman's truck blocking the background. The old 1898 Courthouse and Sheriff's Office is directly across the street which is why they placed the truck to block them. We used to fish off the bridge he jumped when I was in High School. The bridge was all the way across the Flint River until they broke part of it for the filming.
You did a good job and I was glad you discovered the new location
Thanks man I really love these types of videos especially with these classic movies like Smokey and the bandit and I'm not joking to me it is a classic
Great video really enjoyed it i love that movie I remember seeing it when I was about 9 years old when it came out in England.
The most talented guy in that movie was Jerry read he was also a singer and a brilliant song writer he wrote the songs Guitar Man and US Mail both songs made famous by Elvis.
Thanks so much for putting the time in to do this.
B.M. - YOUR REALLY GOOD AT THIS I HOPE YOU CAN DO OTHER MOVIES TO !!! TO BAD THAT THEY DONT TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THESE HISYORY BUILDINGS LIKE THE GAS STATION DINER THAT LOOKS SAD..
The Diner was the "Old Hickory House" in Forest Park.
I forgot how funny that film was. 1971 I was graduating high school, ( go Bombers). Saw it twice. You do really great match ups to movies. Thanks Michael I watched this twice as well! Always a classic. Stat healthy and safe my friend.
1977
@@andyhamilton8940 thank goodness someone else noticed him say that right off the bat... made me wonder what the movie would have been with a 71 Pontiac instead, plus I always thought( and wondered if SALLY and the rest ever realized) that they would have had to change her nickname from Frog to RACCOON after that jump how she hides her eyes behind her knees.....
@@andyhamilton8940 No they sayimg they graduated that school in 1971
Gotta say this was fun. My all time favorite movie. I enjoy it today at 55 years as I did in the theater when it came out.
I get the passion of seeing these spots. It would be fun.
Nice find at the shopping center.
Brilliant. One of my favourite films 🇬🇧🏆
Great job! Really enjoyable when host is also big fan of the movie
Burt was one of my Later Father's Clients. For Western Art work. Dad told him he did the Art work for Pontiac and GM back in the 50s to the 60s.
45th Anniversary, watched, caught the 71, excellent recap on a non script movie, holds water in '22, can only imagine the chases in '81 vintage Detroit muscle...BTW, Enos Strait, was motorcycle cop b4 he was a deputy in Hazzard co.
whoops, I just notuced i fat fingered 81, not 71...😐
MAN!!! I LOVED THIS VIDEO!!! 👍👍 Love the way you show us the film version scene to the reality scene of how it looks now! 👍👍
That pink building just above your left shoulder, that was in the photoshoot for the album cover of Lynyrd Skynyrds first album. The cover photo used was just down from that
Great video, buds! I missed that strip mall my first few times through. Drove over yesterday and got some photos. Thanks for finding it!
Great video. Love movie location stuff like this. Well done.
Mike I grew up in the 70s an 80s them movies back then was really worth going to I was with my grandparents in Daytona beach Florida an remembered sceeing the movie poster at bell air shopping center an the people that came out was talking about how great that movie was an the funny parts to man miss those days an I finally got to see it what a movie Burt sally jerry an jack what a cast thank you Mike for a going down member lane
Brilliant video this reminds me of being at my grandparents in the early 80s now I watch it wilt my son👌. Thanks for making the effort to take the time to make these videos. I just subscribed 👍👍👍
Good job Bama, excellent attention to detail finding all those filming locations. I grew up in a small town in Upstate NY and this film was one of my first exposures to southern culture. Loved your vid and the movie.
When you say "Upstate NY" Do you mean N of NYC or N of rt 90?
I mean between Syracuse and Utica
@@browsman2328 Awesome, thank you. I get sick of hearing people say they're from Upstate and they mean someplace like Monticello NY lol. I'm between Syracuse and Watertown myself.
To be more. exact I grew up in Sherrill NY, but nobody knows where that is, even in NY state. I live in Northern California now.
Greetings and Love from New York.I Love the Movie Smokey and the Bandit..Bama this was such an Awesome Video. Thank You, It was so interesting to see the actually locations and the comparisons from the movie. You definitely get 2👍🏻👍🏻 for this one.Pls take care & stay safe & healthy❤️
Thanks Mike 🤠✌
This was very intresting to watch.
AND you went out of your way to show us the location of that hump in the shopping plaze..your a Genius !! 😁
Appreciate you taking the time to do this brother 😎
Good eye for detail, especially for the pavement "hill" / hump in the shopping plaza, which as you noted is evident in the movie, with the other store area seen in the distance.
Just grabbed the 1979 T/A. From the movie. Came into my buddy's shop.
79 T/A? in a 77 movie....pretty rare I would say.
Great video, well done. Particularly like where you inserted the clips from the movie to give better idea of the current setting. This and Dukes of Hazzard where my all-time favorite when I was growing up, heck I still catch them when they are on some cable channels lol.
First mistake not 71 but 77. When he pick up Sally field that way Mundy mill road . where the truck was old Atlanta road and 1941 Hwy . it was old hickey house off of old Dixie Hwy . i was lucky enough to see them filmed most of it. The bridge jump that old bridge was out before the movie even started. I watched the stunt man jump it off of the bridge you was standing on. Thank you for taking time to share.
Great vlog. 1977
I wish you had of contacted me before you made this. I lived on fitzgerald rd, " just off mundys mill rd", And i WATCHED them film this movie, AND i have old photos of it as well. You can see our old house, and i have many relics you would be interested in. I live in monroe county now, But in the 70's i lived in clayton county.
I used to drive a big rig, we got the biggest kick out of the fact the trucks that were in the convoy would have never ever been in a real convoy. An empty logging truck, a moving truck etc. Too funny. HEY BANDIT, THIS IS LITTLE BEAVER.
@ about 14:28. There was a movie theater on that road. That's where I saw the movie with friends when it came out. Also, across the street was a "National Pride" car wash. We'd stop there on the way back from riding motorcycles in the woods on Sunday's to wash our the dirt off of our motorcycles. @ about 25:44 - we used to eat at that Old Hickory House restaurant when I was a child. So many memories - thanks big time for this video!
@William Jett I need to stop in the next time I make it home.
I was Born in Jonesboro Georgia I used to walk around a lot of those sites when I was a teenager
Riverdale for me we were neighbors
I agree with you one of my all-time favorites I saw that for the first time when I was 12 years old thought it was the greatest movie I ever saw. Boy has the locations changed I would never ever recognized them but that's progress.p
Great video. Not sure if you missed it, but right down the street (about a 1/4 mile) from the funeral procession scene on Phillips Rd was the football field they ran through. I grew up on that road.
I'm a life long fan of this movie. Without a doubt the best Burt Reynolds movie. Really enjoyed this video.
Im 31 but smokey was and is my favourite film ever ❤
One of the greatest movies ever!!!!
Cool video, thanks for sharing 👍👍
I LOVE IT WHENEVER HE LOOKS DOWN THE CAMERA! Like he's caught you watching 😂 my fave film ever & Bandit was my first love at 7yrs old, even though he was 10yrs older than my Dad! 😂 I'm still looking for a Burt of my own... Rip Gorgeous Man 💜
I did not realize that this film was made in GA. Thanks for the great video Mike. I love Smokey and the Bandit, such a good movie.....Jutta
The bridge jump location is on Flint River Rd. in Jonesboro. My grandma lived in the neighborhood about 1/2 mile from here, and when I was a kid in the early 80s we used to fish off of the old bridge they jumped. It was still partially standing back then. My parents first house is also visible in the movie, on Hewell Rd. They had to let them through the film set to get to their house , dad said they had about a dozen of the Trans Ams sitting there all beat up from the stunts.
Burt Reynolds had a big house he bought during this time period on lake Spivey in Jonesboro as well, and there was an amphitheater there where alot of big music acts of the 70s played at the time.
Another fun fact is that the Flint River in the 1970s had the largest population of Snapping Turtles of anywhere in the world. People caught so many of them to eat and to sell to soup companies that unfortunately they are kind of rare now. I grew up around here and everywhere around the Flint River the enormous turtles used to be everywhere.
So I grew up in Jonesboro and watched them film a lot of it. Just some info the shopping center the buildings in the front were not there when it was filmed. Also on the McDonough square where he hides that use to be raised up there was a 2 ft wall around the center of the square if you notice in the movie the car actually goes up a ramp. The old mill where the guy was fishing burnt down that called Mundys Mill rd. There’s a high school on the corner now. You did pretty good though
I was a police officer in the county that some of the scene was filmed and I worked with some of the officers that they used as extras for the movie and my cousin whom was a officer for the same county was killed in the line of duty at the intersection where the top was shered off.
East Bound And Down with the convoy, one of mine favourite scenes
The McDonough scene where Bandit smiles was not on the square but just off the square behind you when you were talking across the street from the courthouse.
Pretty awesome you found that hump in the drive
Downtown Jonesboro was also the location that Lynyrd Skynyrd did there cover of one of their albums. The one where Ed King had lightning striking his head.
That was their first album "Pronounced".
That lightning shot was the last picture took of an all day photo shoot. Bob Burns still had bloodshot eyes from getting hit with brass knuckles.
They also shot a lot of scenes about a mile from my home in southern ca near foster park.
Cool video. One of my all time favorite movies. Saw it in the theater multiple times when I was a kid
Great video! Love Smokey and the Bandit as well. Thanks for sharing.
i was at the old hickory house this past sunday for farther's day for breakfast and noticed that a photo of Bandit was hanging on the wall made me curiously wonder if they shot the scene when bandits meets Sheriff Buford T Justice did a google search and you sir not only confirmed it but you sir and google confirmed that the old hickory house was the diner used for the scene in smokey and the bandit. To this day old hickory house still stands and they serve a reall good breakfast.
Good job Mike with the match ups. 👍
BAMA MIKE--- MAN YOU DID YOUR HOME WORK ON THIS MOVIE I REALLY ENJOYED IT!!!! GREAT VIDEO.. BY THE WAY ARE YOU MILITARY??? YOU HAVE A PARACORD BRACLET ON YOUR WRIST,, WITH A COMPASS ,, STRIKER,,, WHISLE,,.. THERE GREAT YOU UNDO IT YOU CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE OR OTHERS .. I HAVE TWO I AM AN ARMY MEDIC.. PEACE..!!!!
I was born in '77. Omg I'm getting old. Lol BTW, my brother lives in Clayton County roughly 15 minutes from the airport.
My father bought a black trans am in 1977. I’ve never asked him if he bought the car because of the movie. I think he didn’t because when the movie came out he parked it and rarely ever drive it.
Smokey and the bandit location. Classic movie 🍿
Cool video. I used to work on Stone Mountain-Lithonia Rd at the International Paper across the street on the corner of MArbut.. If you recognize The convenient store when turning onto Stn Mountain Rd from Main St, that was the BIG A store in Dumber and Dumberer. We had to re-route while they filmed.
"Daddy, my hat fell off!"
BTJ-"I hope your damn head was in it!"
KI am at 20:05 right now where you just talked about Fred. You should add something about 'Fred' and how he came to be in the movie and where he came from, also. Jus' sayin'. Enjoying your discussion very much, though, so the earlier suggestion was not a criticism of any kind.
Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for this video. My deceased grandfather, who was a father to me loved the movie. I watched it with him as a child. This video is one of my favorite filming locations videos. If you have a filming locations video of the series The Dukes of Hazzard, please reply and let me know.
Firstly thank you, and secondly I do have a dukes of hazzard filming locations video, it was early on in my UA-cam video catalog so it’s not quite as good as this one but i did hit a lot of locations, I have thought about redoing it, as the dukes of hazzard is one of my favorite series ever, like you my dad and I watched it as I was growing up so it hold sentimental value to me, you can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/MctEMNA_BTY/v-deo.html
@@BamaMike I have a story to tell you about the Dukes. Every Friday my grandparents would take me out to a local pizza joint and we'd always get home just in time to see Waylon's guitar. If you redo the Dukes filming location let me know. In the mean time I'll check this one out. Thank you.