Film locations

We finally got to visit a couple of areas that we didn't get around to the last time we were here in California.

Last week we went on a 5 mile hike in Malibu Creek State Park which is where the TV series M*A*S*H was filmed from 1972 - 1983.

There were a few props and information boards and it was amazing to see how small the filming area was - the cinematography made it look much, much bigger.

Yesterday we went to Vasquez Rocks. Formed by uplift about 25 million years ago and later erosion and exposure by activity along the San Andreas Fault, they are named after Tiburcio Vasquez, one of California's most notorious bandits who used to hide out here. As the location is within the "Thirty-mile studio zone" for Hollywood, many movies and TV series have been filmed here. These include Star Trek (TV episode and movie The Final Frontier), Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Blazing Saddles, The Flintstones, Paul, The A-Team, Planet of the Apes, just to name a few as well as many Westerns

Tomorrow we head further south...