The Bad News Bears (1976)

The Bad News Bears (1976)

Thank You To Tony Valvo For Telling Me About The Pizza Hut Location Thank You To Paul H. For Finding The Swimming Pool Location

• (0:02) The West Valley Little League Field / Mason Park; 10500 Mason Avenue, Chatsworth
• (0:11) Pizza Hut / 20515 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth (Note: There Is Now A Panda Express There And The Billboard Behind The Restaurant Is No Longer There)
• (0:13) Sporting Goods Store / 19315 Saticoy Street, Reseda (Note: This Location Was Totally Rebuilt So That Is Why The Shopping Center Will Look Different If You Go There. My Picture Is Of The New Shopping Center)
• (0:14) The Bears Practicing Hitting At Some Batting Cages / Flooky's Bat-A-Ball; 14661 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks (Note: This Place Is No Longer There And There Is A Commercial Building Now On This Spot)
• (0:14) The Bears Helping Buttermaker Clean A Pool / 16916 Encino Hills Drive, Encino
• (0:31) Buttermaker Downtown After His Conference With The Parent / Roughly at 310 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles (Note: The District Court Building Now Sits On That Parking Lot)
• (0:31) Buttermaker Trying To Recruit Amanda To Play With The Team / Corner Of N. Mapleton Drive And W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
• (0:52) Shopping Center Of The Arcade Scene / 5540 Reseda Blvd, Tarzana (Note: I Doubt It Is An Arcade Today But That Was The Building)

Labels: Chatsworth, Encino, Flooky's Bat-A-Ball, Los Angeles, Mason Park, Mission Hills, Pizza Hut, Reseda, Sherman Oaks, Tarzana

27 comments:

1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2013 at 4:00 AM

   I'm pretty sure that pizza hut is the one on sepulveda & chatsworth in north hills

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   1. Chas DemsterJanuary 23, 2013 at 3:21 PM

      Hello, thank you for the comment. I called that location and they confirmed that is where the scene was filmed. If you look at the couple walking up to the Pizza Hut you see nothing but mountains in the background so a lot has been built around there since the mid 1970s

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2. George Vreeland HillJanuary 24, 2013 at 6:03 PM

   Great movie. I have been to a couple of these locations. George Vreeland Hill

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3. AnonymousJuly 25, 2013 at 6:22 PM

   I was looking at your site today and saw that you list a Pizza Hut at on Saticoy Street in Reseda as the location from the movie. It was actually the Pizza Hut which is now a Panda Express about 75 yards west of Mason on Devonshire Street in Chatsworth. I know because I grew up there and watched much of the filming (just thought you might like to know).

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   1. AnonymousApril 12, 2014 at 3:48 AM

      Hi ..I would LOVE to hear about the filming and what that entailed my email address is [email protected] if you would please let me pick your brain for 15 minutes THANK YOU!!-John

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4. trthmsterAugust 28, 2013 at 10:25 PM

   No Tony, the author stated the sporting goods store in the movie is now a radio shack. What's really sad is the san fernado valley in 76 was a beautiful suburb filled with American cars, pizza parlors, arcades and white people. Now most of it is a third world toilet. That's the part about the movie which was the saddest.

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   1. UnknownApril 11, 2014 at 11:02 PM

      Sounds like a comment from the Jeff Daniels' character in "2 Days in the Valley". Another good movie.

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   2. MattSeptember 26, 2015 at 7:26 AM

      Yep, you're absolutely right. It's a third world toilet now.

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   3. AnonymousNovember 9, 2015 at 8:43 AM

      Agreed. the valley is a nasty place filled with third worlders.

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   4. Jeff.September 27, 2016 at 10:20 PM

      Yes..it is truly sad... California is such a beautiful place..

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   5. UnknownJune 21, 2020 at 9:00 PM

      It looks like Mexico, how sad

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5. trthmsterAugust 28, 2013 at 10:30 PM

   I once ran into kelly leak filming a porno in 97'. I know this because I was in the porno which was filmed in a house in woodland hills.

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6. AnonymousMarch 20, 2014 at 7:28 PM

   The batting cages look like Flooky's in Sherman Oaks which sadly is long gone.

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   1. Chas DemsterMarch 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM

      Thank you for the info as I have updated my page. Thanks again for helping out.

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7. AnonymousApril 4, 2014 at 9:29 PM

   Amanda is not "Boilermaker"'s daughter. She is the daughter of one of his former girlfriends.

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   1. Chas DemsterApril 4, 2014 at 11:00 PM

      Thank you. You are totally correct.

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8. AnonymousAugust 9, 2014 at 5:44 PM

   Thanks for all the great info! I always wondered where the baseball field was located at.

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9. PaulHOctober 7, 2016 at 9:48 AM

   The house where the team clean the pool is at 16916 Encino Hills Dr, EncinoThere are some great photos here

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10. UnknownApril 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM

    Why does a baseball field over on Sepulveda Ave claim to be the "Bad News Bears Field?"

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    1. UnknownJuly 30, 2017 at 8:25 PM

       John, Google the info. There is a cool backstory as to why that park on Sepulveda was named after the Bad News Bears film.

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11. Bill BazenJanuary 7, 2018 at 4:41 PM

    Great Website here Chas!.....Bill Bazen

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12. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2018 at 11:00 PM

    I'm so glad that you have done this.I was looking up the locations for a visit that I still have to convince my wife about. You helped clarify a couple of things I couldn't figure out from satellite photos

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14. Khalid DeifallahJune 3, 2019 at 7:50 PM

    It Looks Like The Building Where The Arcade Once Was Is Now A Dry-Cleaners.

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15. Ian PunterJuly 19, 2020 at 10:48 PM

    I rewatched BNB today after watching it first in 1976. The baseball field had such a familliar feel to me. Then I saw online that it was at Mason Park right near Mason and Devonshire. It was an O WOW moment for me as i estimate I was in that area at least 2000 times from 1997 thru 2006. But one thing, there was a Ralphs grocery sign visible from the baseball diamond in the film but it's actually a Vons when I was there.

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2024 at 12:45 AM

       Ralphs had to sell that location after a merger

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16. Daniel DeenyDecember 30, 2021 at 4:26 PM

    Re: the photo of Amanda pitching the ball to Buttermaker at the noted location that was shot from behind Amanda, I measured the distance on Google Maps and the width of the street from curb to curb is only 30 feet. Assuming that she stood up on the berm behind the curb with the camera set up right behind her, her pitch would have been no more than 35 feet and the Little League distance from the rubber to home plate is 46 feet, but you'd never know that her pitch was that much shorther due to the camera's distorted perspective and that would only be possible with a rear shot of the pitch.

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