Another Filming Location Identified! - The Rockford Files - Episode: Where's Houston (1975) - Safeway Grocery Store with rooftop parking

This Safeway Food Store had rooftop parking. I would guess the store and the building are long gone... I believe this store was located either in or around Burbank, California. Anybody know what locations this was? Thanks!

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Thanks to an anonymous blog viewer we now have 100% confirmation of this filming location. 864 Swarthmore Avenue, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA 90272... It is now a CVS Drugs with the same rooftop parking area. You can match up the house on the street to both the 1970's photos (ABOVE) and to the 2012 photos (BELOW). Thank you to the person who sent this information in to us!

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Split image screen shot shows the intersection of

East Olive Ave and First Street, Burbank, CA

The Sunset Marquis Hotel

1200 Alta Loma Rd,  West Hollywood, CA 90069

LEFT IMAGE: Screen shot from this episode - RIGHT IMAGE: 2015

As Jim Rockford looks out the window of Room 105 of the Sunset Marquis Hotel, he sees police pulling up next door at the Park Wellington Condos located at 1131 Alta Loma Rd, West Hollywood, CA 

 

 

ABOVE IMAGE: Attempting to identify these two actors.

Thanks to "Kosmo" the actor with the mustache is Del Monroe (1936-2009) - he played "Charlie"
 

ABOVE IMAGE: Unaccredited actress played the clerk

 

ABOVE PHOTO: Lane Bradbury played Houston

 

 

The Rockford Files - Episode: The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall (1978) Filmed on location at USC - The University of Southern California, Los Angeles

ABOVE THREE IMAGES: Top two images are screen shots from this episode that shows the frat house Jim Rockford is visiting - the bottom of the three images is a screen shot that shows Jim Rockford at the door of the frat house with a white colored sorority house behind him.

The frat house is located on what was once called "Greek Row" at USC on west 28th Street. The frat house address is 833 West 28th Street, Los Angeles, CA.
The white colored sorority house seen over Jim Rockford's shoulder is located at directly across the street.

 

ABOVE TWO IMAGES: These images reflect how the frat & sorority houses look in 2015.

ABOVE PHOTO: Buck Young who passed away in 2000 played the owner of the Sand Castle Restaurant, Jake Sand. His birth name was John Otto Young.

ABOVE PHOTO: Frat Pledge Miller Claussen was played by Ric Carrott - Doubt any of today's frat houses have a manually operated telephone switchboard.

ABOVE PHOTO: University Police Chief Max Kilmore was played by the late great Kenneth Tobey, Kenneth Tobey was born Jesse Kenneth Tobey and passed away 2002 at age 85.

#1: Actor Bill Thornbury played Paul Lowe Douglas who ends up getting killed. Born in 1952, Bill is still acting today.

If you can identify actors #2, #3 or #4, please leave it in the comment section. Thanks

 

UPDATE: Jeff Mozilla identified #4 as Barney McFadden played Bert Hannan

Hannan passed away at age 59 in 2006 from a stroke.

 

 ABOVE PHOTO: Kathy Hilton, mother of Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Conrad Hilton, and Barron Hilton, played a young college student who was raped. Photo left side: Then - Photo right side: 2015

 

ABOVE PHOTO: Far Left: Frances Lee McCain (Born 1944) played Leslie Callahan - Right Side: Joyce Easton played Valerie Douglas - the mother of the killed college student. Valerie was born in 1930 and still is with us today in 2015.

 

ABOVE IMAGE: Left: Cuban born Daniel Ades played Machmoud. Ades passed away at age 59 in 1992. Right: Maurice Sherbanee played Khadaffi. Sherbanee was born in 1930 and still is acting in 2015.

 

ABOVE TWO IMAGES: Top of the two images - USC building used as "Rosemont Hall" Bottom of the two images - USC old "School of Social Work" building

 

ABOVE IMAGE: USC Campus - La Mariposa Apartments

Need help with this one. Not sure if the name of the apartments is just a filming prop or actually once existed. Anybody know where this building is located?

 

ABOVE IMAGE: Anybody know this actor?

UPDATE: Jeff Mozilla identified this actor as Barney McFadden played Bert Hannan

Hannan passed away at age 59 in 2006 from a stroke.

 

ABOVE TWO IMAGES: The above unaccredited actress attempts to place a phony rape charge on Jim Rockford.

The Rockford Files - Episode: Just by Accident (1975) Actress Susan Keller - Actor Sal Acquisto - the late great Fritzi Burr - funny man Gordon Jump - Michael Fox - Actress Beatrice Colen - Actor Oliver Clark - the beautiful actress E.J. (Edra Jean) Peaker - the late actor Fred Sadoff - Actor David Spielberg - Steven Keats - Joey Aresco - Neva Patterson - RACE TRACK LOCATION: Ascot Park (Speedway) in Gardena, California

WE HAVE AN ANSWER THAT APPEARS TO BE RIGHT

A blog viewer asked this question regarding this episode:

A large building was under construction in this episode. Does anyone know what building this would be? Under construction around 1974-1975 

 ABOVE IMAGE: Still image from The Rockford Files - Episode: Just by Accident (1975) showing the building under construction that is in question.

ANSWER: The exterior shots of the building under construction was the BUNKER HILL TOWER APARTMENTS located at: 234 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA

 

The second filming location used was a building under construction at

 

Universal Studios. This would be the filming that James Garner appeared in on the top floor of a building under construction.

 

Thank you to the viewer who sent us this information.  

 

 ABOVE IMAGE: I was able to capture this image during the building scene. The still scene image partially shows the SHERATON UNIVERSAL Building directly behind the large building being built.

The SHERATON UNIVERSAL is located at: 333 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA

ABOVE IMAGE: The SHERATON UNIVERSAL (1970's) located at: 333 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA

So this narrows down the location of the building under construction being located very closed to the Sheraton Universal Building.

If any viewers have a possible answer to question... please let us know either in the comment section or

RockfordLocations@live.Com

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Above Photo: Pioneer Used Cars Lot in North Hollywood, California

Above Photo: Hall of Records  227 north Broadway 

Los Angeles, CA

Above Photo: The Standard Gas Station that was once located at the corner of Lankershim Blvd and Riverside Drive - across the street from Mayberry Ford

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Below Photos: Some great actors and actresses appeared in this episode of The Rockford Files

 Above Photo: The late actress Neva Patterson

 Above Photo: the late actor Steven Keats and the very much alive actor Joey Aresco.

 

 Above Photo: Actor David Spielberg

 

 Above Photo: the late actor Fred Sadoff

 

 Above Photo: E.J. (Edra Jean) Peaker

 

 Above Photo: Great character actor Oliver Clark

 

 Above Photo: the late great character actress Beatrice Colen

Above Photo: Actor Michael Fox - He is the reason why Michael J. Fox added the "J" to his name. 

 

 Above Photo: Late great character actor Gordon Jump of WKRP fame.

 

 Above Photo: A regular on The Rockford Files, Fritzi Burr

 

 Above Photo: His only acting credits are for his two appearances on The Rockford Files, Sal Acquisto

 

Above Photo: The beautiful Susan Keller 

CORRECTED LOCATION THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING COMMENT LEFT BY A VIEWER:
RACE TRACK LOCATION: That is NOT Riverside International Raceway. Anyone who believes it is has never attended a race there or knows anything about automobile racing in Southern California. The location is the famous and now defunct Ascot Park (Speedway) in Gardena, California.

Ascot was a short oval track that hosted a variety of races including "Figure 8" and Demolition Derbys. In the episode, you can clearly see the figure 8 portion of the track inside the oval.

Riverside was a long road course that never hosted figure 8 or demolition derbys.

An advertisement for radio station KIEV is clearly seen at the track. KIEV is a Los Angeles AM station (why would you advertise in Riverside County, CA).

Yes, I attended several races at both locations.

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Hello, I commented on the website regarding Bunker Hill Towers Apartments in the "Just by Accident" episode page. According to the county assessor's website, it was built in 1968. So, they must have used old video footage when putting together the scene for this episode, and combined it with the scenes from the building near the Sheraton Universal. This was the first of two apartment towers to be built (222 S. Figueroa and 234 S. Figueroa).

I attached 2 photos I took this morning.

Eric Hudak