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"Transformers",
the 2007 movie version of the classic toys & TV show,
You'll find the 'Witwicky house' at 2187 W. 24th Street, on the north side of the residential block, between Cimmaron Street (on the west) and S. Grammercy Place (on the east). Warning: This
is a private home. Do not trespass on their property,
knock on
Sam's high school (where Sam is seen doing his presentation about his great-grandfather's discoveries in the Arctic Circle) was really Marshall Fundamental School, located at 990 Allen Avenue, in Pasadena. That's on the northeast side of Pasadena, between E. Mountain Street (on the south) and Casa Grande Street (on the north). (It's about two miles southeast of "Bolivia's Used Car lot".) In the photo above, the camera is looking east/northeast, from Allen Ave.
That Porsche dealership was actually Porsche/Audi of Downtown Los Angeles, located located just south of downtown L.A., at 1900 Figueroa Street:. That's at the southeast corner of Figueroa Street and W. Washington Blvd, a few blocks south of the Staples Center. (It's about four miles east of Sam's house.)
In the photo above, the camera is looking northeast (across Lake Avenue), while in the photo below, the camera is looking south (across Morada Place.). (The movie's production notes incorrectly describe the used car lot as being in Pasadena, but I've learned over the years that producers tend to mistake both Altadena and the city of South Pasadena for their bigger neighbor, Pasadena. This location is just north of Pasadena, in Altadena.)
Warning: This
is a private home. Do not trespass on their property, knock
on
Sam drives out to a park with a lake, where 'Mikaela' (Megan Fox) is hanging out. But when she gets into a fight with her date and starts to walk home, Sam seizes the opportunity and offers her a ride home in his car. That park is not really a park. And it was hard to find. Turns out this scene was filmed on a private estate located at 2800 White Stallion Road, part of White Stallion Ranch Estates, in the Hidden Valley section of Thousand Oaks, CA. That is way out west of the San Fernando Valley, in Ventura County, about 25 miles west of the 405 Freeway, and about 50 miles northwest of downtown L.A. White Stallion Road is a private offshoot of W. Potrero Road, south of the Ventura Freeway. Needless to say, the private property isn't open to the public (there's a guard shack to discourage that, so don't waste your time trying to visit). But you can see
a YouTube video
of the home's real estate offering here.
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Sam's car soon begins to move around on its own... Not knowing it is a Transformer in disguise, and believing the car is being stolen, Sam follows the car on a bike, only to wind up being arrested by the police. Along the way, we see Sam pedal past the large home above, as he calls the police on his cell phone. Warning: This
is a private home. Do not trespass on their property, knock
on
A similar chase scene is repeated a few minutes later in the movie, after Sam gets out of jail and is back home. His "Satan's Camero" shows up again, outside his window, and soon Sam is back on his bike again, but this time it is the car that is doing that chasing and Sam who is trying to get away, as the car chases him down the street.
But then the producers pull the old switcheroo on us again, and we suddenly jump miles away, back to Pasadena, CA. The new location is on S. Oakland Avenue between Green Street (on the south) & Colorado Blvd (on the north).
(In the photo above, the camera is looking southwest, as Sam rides east on Colorado Blvd.)
Then there's yet another small jump in location. Sam crashes his bike, falling flat on his back, right in front of a Burger King restaurant, where (as luck would have it), Mikaela is dining with her friends on the sidewalk patio. Her girlfriends giggle at his misfortune, but Mikaela joins him on his trek. Sam (a stuntman, actually) runs into the tree on the west side of that fast food restaurant. That's across the street from (east of) Pasadena City College. In the
photo above,
Sam is heading north on Bonnie Ave
when he hits the tree.
He winds up underneath a freeway, his own car still on his tail. Sam is relieved to see a police car suddenly appear to "rescue" him. Or so it thinks. Instead, the "cop car" knocks him off his bike, and intimidates him, before finally transforming into a giant Decepticon robot, which begins to chase him.
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