The Rockford Files - Episode: The Return of the Black Shadow (1979) James Garner & his brother Jack Garner - Chevron Gas Station & Malibu Realty, Inc. 30800 Block of Pacific Coast Highway - Kilroy's Tavern (Possibly Santa Monica) - Jolly Roger Motel located at 2904 Washington Blvd, Marina del Rey - The beautiful actress Laurie Jefferson played Gail Cooper - Actor Bo Hopkins - Actor Joseph Burke who stand 6' & 6" - Actor Paul Mace who died at age 33 - The late great actor Dennis Burkley - Actors Jerry Ayres (Died 2013), Andy Jarrell and Ken A. Anderson

ABOVE IMAGE: Chevron Gas Station & Malibu Realty, Inc.

30800 Block of Pacific Coast Highway

 

ABOVE PHOTO: Actors James Garner & his brother Jack Garner appeared together in this scene. Jack Garner is the actor wearing the cap and sunglasses standing behind James Garner. Far Right Photo shows Jack without his gas station disguise. Brothers James & Jack Garner appeared together in many of the Rockford Files episodes.

ABOVE PHOTO: Actor Jack Garner getting ruffed up by a motorcycle gang - The Rattlers. Usually it was his brother James Garner getting pounced on.

ABOVE PHOTO: In this still image the exterior of KILROY'S TAVERN can be seen. 

Kilroy's was located at 2820 Main Street, Santa Monica California

 

 

ABOVE THREE IMAGES: The Jolly Roger Motel located at 2904 Washington Blvd, Marina del Rey, California - I doubt they let you bring your motorcycles into the rooms anymore.

 

BELOW IMAGE: The Jolly Roger Motel as it stands today in 2014

ABOVE IMAGE: The beautiful actress Laurie Jefferson played Gail Cooper, as seen here on her first date with Jim Rockford. Before the date ends, she will be beat and repeatedly raped by a motorcycle gang. I would have to say one of the worst first dates in TV series history. But the trooper she is, she asked for a second date! What a woman!

ABOVE IMAGE: Actor Bo Hopkins returns to star in his 4th episode of the Rockford Files. In each episode he played Jim Rockford's friend John Cooper. Cooper and Garner had a natural interaction in each episode.

ABOVE IMAGE: 6'6" tall actor Joseph Burke played Rattler's gang member Lenny. The much shorter actor standing to Burke's right is Paul Mace. Mace died in a road accident at age 33 in 1983.

ABOVE IMAGE: The late great Dennis Burkley who we lost in 2013. This was Dennis Burkley's 3rd appearance on the Rockford Files.

ABOVE IMAGE: Actors Jerry Ayres (Died 2013), Andy Jarrell and Ken A. Anderson also starred in this episode.

Adam-12 Filming Location: Dave Berg's Liquor Store and Deli 11340 Moorpark, North Hollywood - next to Dairy Queen

Adam 12 (EPISODE: Vengeance) 1972
Dave Berg's Liquor and Deli store located at 11340 Moorpark in North Hollywood, CA.

In the above still image from the original ADAM 12 TV Series you can see the DAVE BERG'S LIQUOR AND DELI sign just above the squad car.  

Directly past Dave Berg's Liquor and Deli was a Dairy Queen Ice Cream Shop. Today the old Dairy Queen is the now closed down - 8 1/2 Taverna - located at 11334 Moorpark, North Hollywood, CA

 

 

I will be traveling from Chicago to the Los Angeles area in JUNE 2014.... Please feel free to leave me any places or locations I should check out while there in the comment section

I originally had planned to be in Los Angeles in 2012... but that got nixed so I re-scheduled for June of 2014.

Please list in the comment section any places I should not miss!

I know I do want to eat at Paradise Cove Restaurant, visit Karen Carpenter's resting place and also drive the Pacific Coast Highway....

The Rockford Files - Episode: The Big Ripoff (1974) Another one we need help with - Kelso's Restaurant

In this episode Jim Rockford meets with the local Sheriff at the Kelso's Restaurant. Anybody have any idea where this Kelso's Restaurant is or was once located?

One of the filming locations for this episode was Santa Clarita, CA.

THE ROCKFORD FILES - EPISODE: The Big Cheese (1979) Actors/Actresses: Mary Jackson, Constance Towers, "Arnold Moe", Francis X. McCarthy, Ben Andrews, Mark Lonow, George Pentecost, WWII Vet Alan Manson, Bill McLean, Anne Churchill - Rockford Files Filming Locations - THE BIG CHEESE: J&J Coffee Shop, Thelma's, In-Fashion Carpet and Drapery Shop, Heart's Restaurant, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, The Cigarette and Gift Shop at the old Los Angeles Union Station in the 1970's, Herald Examiner Newspaper Building 1101 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA - Scene Blooper from the Rockford Files, The Big Cheese episode

Actress Mary Jackson (1910-2005) played the tough by the rules U.S. Postal Inspector.

 

The beautiful Constance Towers played the undercover IRS agent.

 

An unknown unaccredited actor played Arnold Moe.

 

The J & J Coffee Shop can be seen through the glass doors - This building was used as the newspaper office. J&J Coffee Shop is now Thelma's located at 1108 S. Broadway in Los Angeles.

Thanks to a alert viewer, these glass doors are the entrance to the old Herald Examiner Newspaper Building - Thank You.

 

Thelma's was once the J&J Coffee Shop located at 1108 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA

 

Jim Rockford can be seen leaving the bank located at 16926 Saticoy Van Nuys, CA.

In the background the In-Fashion Carpet and Drapery Shop can be seen across the street.

 

Jim Rockford and Lt. Dennis Becker have some food at Heart's Coffee Shop and Restaurant located at 16918 Saticoy in Van Nuys, CA.

 

Heart's Restaurant is still here in 2014 and the bank is now the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art building on Saticoy Street in Van Nuys.

 

The Cigarette and Gift Shop at the old Los Angeles Union Station in the 1970's.

 

Actor Francis X. McCarthy played Jim Rockford's writer friend Eddie Hellinger who ends up getting murdered by thugs from a mobbed up union.

 

Actor Ben Andrews played "Stamps" in this episode of the Rockford Files, sadly Ben Andrews pasted away shortly after appearing in the Rockford Files at the age of 38 in 1981 - Mark Lonow played "Coco" and is alive and well in 2014 at age 76.

 

Actor George Pentecost played banker George Neff in this episode of the Rockford Files. Sadly we lost George Pentecost in 2003.

 

World War II veteran Alan Manson played the mobbed up union boss Chuck Ryan.

 

Actor Bill McLean played the nervous wreck U.S. Mailman in this episode of the Rockford Files.

 

The very young and sexy Anne Churchill played the bubbly newspaper office clerk.

 

SCENE BLOOPER: Many of the items seen on top of the table magically disappears in this scene from the Rockford Files. The flowers, the box of Sugar Frosted Flakes and the electric can opener are there one second and gone the next.

 

Various Jim Rockford's Yellow Pages Advertisments from Different Episodes - The Rockford Agency - Rockford Private Investigations Telephone Book Ad - Yellow Pages

 

 

The Rockford Files - Episode: "Chicken Little Is A Little Chicken" (1975)

The Church Angel Martin had his fake funeral service in:

First Christian Church Of North Hollywood

4390 Colfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA

Above Photo: In the opening scene they showed this church's bell tower ringing its bell. They used stock footage of a church bell ringing... This is not the bell tower on the First Christian Church Of North Hollywood.

ABOVE PHOTO: First Christian Church Of North Hollywood as it appears today.

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The hot dog stand which use to be located on the beach at Paradise Cove.

Paradise Cove - 28128 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA