Top Gun (1986) Filming Locations in San Diego - Beach Cottage / Bar Scenes / First Kiss & Much More
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A visit to the Top Gun filming locations from the 1986 Tom Cruise movie . Starting in Oceanside California and heading south down to San Diego hitting a few of the key spots .
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Instagram - AdamTheWooATW Would have recreated the volleyball scene but by doing so might have ....took my breath away . Yesterday's video kzread.info/dash/bejne/laFmpcV-g7uslNo.html
@michaelchildress7617
5 жыл бұрын
LOL Playing with the BOYS Kenny Loggins Top Gun! Bodies working overtime! Someone is on your mind! Moving in slow motion it feels so good. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c3aV2MiaqrO6mtI.html
@MrBigdavehd97
5 жыл бұрын
Grest job sir,love this
@GregsVlog
5 жыл бұрын
TheDailyWoo - You’d have to get all lubed up to recreate the volleyball shots properly. I doubt that’s your “scene” ;-)
@bonniebrown6960
5 жыл бұрын
Take my breath away.....away... lol !! Good one Adam !!
@NickP
5 жыл бұрын
TheDailyWoo Slacker to Top Gun LOL
This movie was my wife and I's first date. 32 1/2 years later we are still together.
@49erfanoz
4 жыл бұрын
Haha thats awesome. Me and my wifes 1st date was Hancock (drunken super hero )
@FORGETmeNOT32
2 жыл бұрын
sana all
@Sara-tq6tl
2 жыл бұрын
I guess she didn't lose that loving feeling
@MegaUtube99
2 жыл бұрын
You guys see the new one together? It was great
@mobiusone_8483
2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏
What an awesome kick straight to the solar plexus of 80s nostalgia combined with a great portion of humor. Thank you so much for sharing this gem.
I distinctly remember taking my youngest son to see this movie when he was 17. The next few weeks it was obvious he wanted to be a Naval Aviator because every other word was Navy this or Navy that and a few dozen Navy posters showing up on his bedroom walls. Well, when he graduated the following year off to the Navy he went. He passed all the exams and was admitted to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island when he got his bars from there he was off to Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida where he received further training on both the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet and carrier landings and takeoffs and somewhere during all of that he was also in the Naval Aviation Cadet (NavCad) Program due to the shortage in pilots back then he was finally allowed to attend college for his courses to satisfy his commision in 1994 and got his degree in 1996. I asked him one time if it was anything like the movie. He looked me right in the eye and said "Dad it sucks. The Navy won't let you do anything if you do anything shown in that movie they pull your wings and kick you out." I laughed for hours over that, myself I spend 24 years in the Army, 1946-1948 American Occupation forces Germany, Warrant Officer, and helicopter training 1949-1951, Korea, 1951-1953, 1954-1956. Vietnam 1960-1962, 1964-1965, 1967-1968 then back stateside until given my walking papers in 1970, retired as a Warrant Officer 4 (W-4).
@lesliebarfoot7462
5 жыл бұрын
Great story Andrew.
@USNRaptor
5 жыл бұрын
Either your memory/understanding of events is failing you OR you are full of sh*t.
@andypeterson8013
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your and families service. God bless America!
@timexironman100m
5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha reality sucks....
@seancrowe3353
4 жыл бұрын
@@USNRaptor care to tell us why?
Brings back so many memories of skipping class during my Junior year in High School to go see Top Gun!!!!!I was obsessed with this movie and was going to enlist in the Navy my senior year but wound up going in the Army 11 BRAVO Airborne at Ft Benning GA.I respect you Adam for taking us all on these memorable journeys back to these classic times in cinematic history.Thank you sir and it's greatly appreciated!!!!.Now it's on to the next video here on the channel...Join.... me....SHALL YOU?
I love these filming location vids...almost detective-like work matching up the past to the present based on the limited clues available
I was in the Marine Corps 1st Recon in 1986, my wife, daughter, and I lived blocks away. We reenacted the motorcycle kissing scene on my bike at the marina after watching the movie. Oceanside was the laid back hippie area back then, there were all night guitar jam sessions on the beach by campfire fueled with LSD and weed. Really sad to see it bulldozed and turned into just another development. All the charm is gone, as is my wife. Such is life. Thanks for the tour.
I was there the day they shot the scene on the motorcycle. I have photos. I was recently out of bootcamp and stationed there in school as an enlisted sailor on what had been the Naval Training Center. I was probably coming back from lunch or something, because I would pass that way returning from lunch. They had about three different cycles they used and they were on a small trailer. They also later shot that scene in her car after Goose's death on the same place a few days later. In both scenes was hard to see the actors. The area was taped off to restrict access. Someone told me it was Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. I had walked down that hallway many times. I remember thinking how dull I thought the base was, and I was surprised they would use it for a scene. The Hollywood movie magic, though, made that hallway look incredible. I probably sat there and watched them do about 3 or 4 takes of the scene before moving on because as anyone knows who has watched movies being made, it's intensely slow and boring.
The best (of the best) 80's movies EVER :)
The licence plate was "inverted"
@HEADBANGERSBALLER
5 жыл бұрын
..(cough) Bullsh*t...
@paolo-1283
5 жыл бұрын
@@HEADBANGERSBALLER Haha gutsiest move mav!
@AloanMoreira1
4 жыл бұрын
So, you're the one! :D
@seancrowe3353
4 жыл бұрын
In a 4G negative dive?
@jamesdixon6332
4 жыл бұрын
Foreign Relations
Dude, you are more entertaining than 10 TV shows. Thanks for who you are and what you do...Mr. Woo. 😃
What a classic movie. Thanks so much retracing time.
This was such an iconic 80's movie! I loved the jets flying over when you were filming. Great job on all this! I remember I had a Top Gun Nintendo game that I used to think was so realistic!
Top Gun is one of my all time favorite movies... thank you for this one!! I can’t wait to see the sequel!!
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
Heck yea
@KandiKlover
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheDailyWoo Fuck yea
My friend and I grew up on this film when we were kids, we are now both 45 and still as thick as thief’s. Even now we still quote top gun phrases to each other mid conversation like it’s an in joke. Reminds us of our great friendship and growing up together..... hope you see this comment Jimmy (aka Goose) !
Great, I admit that the location where Goose played the piano was a blast from the past. Thank you!
Props to the guy at 11:53 for accurately turning his wheels into the curb on a downhill slope as well as the 2 men behind him.
WOW, you did it again, Adam. This was terrific. TY for doing your homework, the legwork, and the commentary in order to match certain iconic scenes with their locations. NOBODY does this better than you, Adam...👍✔🤗
Top Gujn 2 was such a Great sequel
Thanks for showing these filming locations. Glad they haven’t torn down the house from the movie. I loved that movie and one of my favorite soundtracks! One of the great movies of the 1980s. 👍
I was working at NAS Miramar when they started filming. It was exciting!!! Thanks Adam!!
@TechnicianBobDetroit
5 жыл бұрын
A wonderful facility you were fortunate to be at, and I have fond memories of it too. Are you now in the Navy and/or Blue Angels?
@JasonBournewrong
5 жыл бұрын
No you weren't.
@ursolinomccoy9198
5 жыл бұрын
OMG that's sounds fun and cool ..Do you remember what scenes did you see?
Such an excellent vlog Adam. Thanks for putting in the nice work and sharing with us 🙌🏻
This created a whole lot of nostalgia!!!
Feels good to have grown up around all these spots.
Great movie, a real classic of its time. Love your take on filming locations Adam. I know this one will be great. Thanks for the awesome upload.
Adam, A very welcome blast from the past !!! Im from Canada was windsurfing at the time In Buxton North Carolina thats where i saw TOP GUN I will never forget that trip. My GF broke up with me two months before and when i got back I started see another girl who would later become my wife you just never know. The caper is now I'm divorced, retired, no debt and life is GOOD !!! Thank the Lord and pass the ammunition. :)
Thanks so.much for presenting the film locations of TOP GUN 1. I enjoyed it very much. It was in the beginning of my twenties when I watched the movie in a movie theatre of my hometown. And now 36 years and two cities later in Berlin in Germany I was able to watch Top Gun II. I have not been to California for a long time. Time to return in the near future. My very best wishes. ☘️🙋♀️🌞
This movie was released 36 years ago , I am watching this video today on the 20 June 2022 in India I was astonished with how still in the United States of America and memories of Top Gun is still alive ? It came to India the same year. I saw the film I was probably 14 years old now I am 50 years old and so on … well the making and the star cast was amazing back then and is amazing now I still have to go and watch the sequel.. I don’t know that the sequel will be remembered for 36 years..but the original 1986 Top Gun will never ever die … it will always be in the hearts and mind of people across the globe and generations will talk about it I am sure they are talking about it even now ..
This is one of my best favorites movies... love top gun
I love Top Gun, Thanks for doing this Adam!
Born and raised here in San Diego we have beautiful beaches and tons of history, new top gun is also being filmed here in Diego again
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW TOP GUN MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing this vlog. It has taken my brearh away. Rock on
Love the detail on these Adam. Appreciate the hard work you put into it.
Wow! After 36 years ,still look the same since the first Top Gun!
Amazing almost 33 years of this film recreating the locations that has been filmed, i love top gun and thanks for the video.
Very interesting. Top gun will always be my favorite movie of all time.
This is ironic, I just watched Top Gun yesterday. Great vlog as always, love the filming locations!
Can only imagine the look on the patron's faces when you're nailing "Take My Breath Away". Great video, man!
I grew up in San Diego. The first time I saw Top Gun was at a small movie theater just north of the navy airfield where the Real Top Gun pilots trained. It was fun to hear some of them talking about the filming of the movie.
Oh my goodness, thanks man for leaving such a detailed introduction! I would definitely hope to visit there later
MY WIFE AND I WENT ON A CRUISE (NO PUN INTENDED) AND WE DOCKED RIGHT NEXT TO THE USS MIDWAY, AND WE WALKED AROUND THE STREETS OF SAN DIEGO. I JUST HAPPENED TO COME UPON THIS PLACE. WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THERE. I WALKED IN AND BOUGHT A T-SHIRT. I'M GLAD I GOT TO VISIT.
One of my all time favorite movies from the 80's. Had a chance to see it in the theater when I was a kid.
Yay, another filming location video! As a kid, my parents took me to a state-of-the-art shop to see a new fangled device called a laserdisc player. They discussed a purchase as I browsed the titles. Top Gun is the only one I remember vividly!
Amazing. Hope they saved that house. You brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks Adam.
Adam, your always fun and interesting to watch. You go to some great places and share memories etc. However, every now and again you pull one out the bag that is quite mind blowing. I am sure different age groups of your channel will find different vlogs more appealing for their own reasons, but for me 1986 was my middle teens, and this film was huge. Just seeing that little blue house brought back so may memories. Fantastic vlog, I know have that song in my head, and I am now going to have to watch the movie again. have a great day Mr Woo.
Thank you for showing this. I was a young child saw the movie with my dad. Involuntarily it correlates with gone back times.
Man, this is VERY cool. Really enjoyed the entire video. Thanks for doing this for all the fans!!!
OH MY GOSH. Adam, I SERIOUSLY just watched Top Gun last night and I was just thinking about the bar they shot the piano scene in. I’ve been in the past. The last time I went they were talking about how they survived the fire. What are the chances! Great timing. Always love your film location shoots!
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
That's funny . Thanks for watching
@michaelbalty2750
5 жыл бұрын
TheDailyWoo THANKS for MAKING THEM! Always appreciate the hard work!
You never fail Adam. Keep up the good work
I enjoyed watching the filming locations of the film Top Gun.
Oh wow. My old boot camp is now Liberty Station. Crazy! This movie was largely responsible for my enlistment in 1992.
Oh heck yeah! “I feel the need... the need for speed”
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
Classic stuff
@theathjr
5 жыл бұрын
Tampa Jay Honestly This a great example why I love the Woo.
@allanshore6437
5 жыл бұрын
METH?
@richardmonaghan1144
4 жыл бұрын
Cheesey'ist line ever !!!
Its the daily woooooo.. Top gun is such a classic.. (Take my breath awaaaayy) dun dun dun dun duuuun Man i love this channel..
@EinkOLED
5 жыл бұрын
Join me, shall you?
@yo-yobo-bo7284
5 жыл бұрын
@@EinkOLED I shall..so I can keep up with future endeavors..lol..
@richardmonaghan1144
4 жыл бұрын
Highway to the danger zone !!!
One of my favorite movies ever, I was lucky enough to see this in person years ago.
I went to that bar when we pulled back into San Diego I was on the USS Nimitz. My co workers were telling me how good the beer was. I said beer is beer. I don’t know if it had to do with being out to sea so long or what but the beer there was amazing! Still the best bud-light I’ve been had to this day.
Shaking my head and grinning @ Adam's rendition 😄😄😄😄 Very cool vlog! *OMG.. I was in jr high, nudging my sister during that "awkward" kissing scene because my parents took us! 🙈 We were so embarrassed, lol!
I grew up in Oceanside in the late eighties to late nineties and they have been talking about repairing the top gun house long as I can remember
@Living_EDventures
5 жыл бұрын
I lived on base near Oceanside 1992 &1993. Been to the house and pier.
@noneoftheeabove8514
5 жыл бұрын
EDventures * I lived off of mission in a neighborhood called “posole” on puls st. I went to south O and lots of kids there lived on base
@Living_EDventures
5 жыл бұрын
@@noneoftheeabove8514 That's great, I was 20 and 21 when I was stationed there
These are my all time favorite videos that you make all mighty Woo. Thanks
Cinematic history at its best. Thanks, Adam.
Your commitment and dedication on these videos are amazing well done on great work .
Wow! Top Gun....you very rarely see vlogs about Top Gun filming locations. Great work, buddy!
@noneoftheeabove8514
5 жыл бұрын
Chris the Shrinerdawg and there’s nobody else lining up those impossible screen shots to actual locations. Sometimes I wonder how the hell he finds the most difficult to imagine locations based off the grainiest screen shots
You are amazing at finding the exact locations from all of these movies.
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
It's a fun challenge
This is one of my fave all time classics! Thanks for the memories! You always do bring a tickle to my funny bone!!! Now that song will b stuck in my head too! 😂
I love this!!! I've seen Top Gun so many times because it is my Mom's favorite movie of all time... Great video but you missed one key location, the volleyball scene!
@chriswells9859
4 жыл бұрын
that scene was filmed on base built the court filmed the scene and tore in down
You should visit the filming locations of Cocktail...
Great work Adam Woo! Love movie locations, keep em coming.
Cant wait for the beyond long awaited squeal to a movie I snuck into the theater to see 13 times.
I love Top Gun! I started singing “Take My Breath Away” too right as I saw this. :-) I literally gasped a few days ago when I saw Tom Cruise in the flight suit doing a promo for “Maverick!” Can’t wait! Another great movie location video from you Adam, love it! :-)
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
I heard the new movie got pushed back a bit
@larafan70
5 жыл бұрын
After the sequel is out even more film shoots ;)
Great movie location tour, Adam. Nobody has covered Top Gun like you have! I'd love to see more movie location vlogs like this, and less of the theme park vids, but that's just me. Thanks again Adam!!!! :-p
They filmed the locker room scenes inside the old original 1925 Mission Beach Plunge. I had an office in there and the crew used the side access (through my office) to get in and out of the room they converted to a locker room. I got to hang out in back of the lockers and a side room while they filmed. I upset Tom Cruise's emoting and was told shortly after I wasn't needed in there, BUT pages from a scrap book I was keeping about the Mission Beach roller coaster restoration (that was taking place at the time) was featured prominently on the bulletin board on the wall, clearly seen in the movie! Much more to the story, and it's one of my favorites.
I came back from my second year in a row from a trip to MCAS Miramar. Since the marines moved in and TOPGUN moved to NAS Fallon, Fightertown USA has been long gone, and it's just not the same anymore.
top gun is my favorite movie
Great video! But they always are great.
@michaelknight6878
5 жыл бұрын
Pauline Reeves I do agree!
I MISS THIS MOVIE!!!
I was stationed on Camp Pend in the late 80's. This brought back lots of memories. Very pleasant to watch, thank you. Good job.
Adam, you can be my wing man any time
@EinkOLED
5 жыл бұрын
That's right, comm onnnnnn.
@larafan70
5 жыл бұрын
Talk to me Adam. Talk to me Adam. (Sweating nervously)
For the morbidly curious, just down the beach from the Top Gun house is Junior Seau's house where he unfortunately took his own life 😮
@gregsayre4700
5 жыл бұрын
Oceanside is also where Anissa Jones, Buffy on Family Affair overdosed
My favorite movie. Well done sir.
I was in grade school when the movie came out. Fell in love with it until today. And watching this video makes me feel old lol.. But thanks for sharing man!
love the intro
Dang it Woo! I am gonna have Take My Breath Away stuck in my head now all day!
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
Ha same
@heatherr2665
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheDailyWoo Geez this song has become a real earworm for me today! I've been watching an Elvis movie marathon in honor of The King's bday & not even the songs from Blue Hawaii have been able to knock Berlin out of my head! 😂
This video is so surreal! Oceanside is my hometown, and it’s crazy seeing something 15 minutes from home on this channel!!!
I love this video. Brings back memories of watching it all the time with my high school boyfriend.
People used to park their motorcycles in front of The Top Gun House and take a picture of it...
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
I can imagine . Would be cool to ride up in front of there on one
@waltwynn-sandiegonorthcoun8475
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheDailyWoo 😎👍
@timexironman100m
5 жыл бұрын
I guess like time it moves forward and that era is lost in time....
@MrPAULONEAL
5 жыл бұрын
@@timexironman100m Like the sands of an hourglass....
THE DAILY WOO!!
My favorite woo videos. Thanks, Adam.
This is awesome . Thank you Adam for finding this
Great video but you forgot to drive to vipers house at point loma lighthouse. Just a few miles from downtown san diego.
awesome job! You should do CHiPs locations.
I love all these filming location videos👍
OMG!!! At 10:48 you can see my ship. The mighty U.S.S. Ranger CV-61 "Top Gun of the Pacific Fleet". I served on her from 89-93. Some of the scenes from Top Gun were filmed aboard Ranger.
love it
I was skeptical that any interior scenes were filmed at that house. I figured they would have been shot on the studio lot, in a recreated setting. I also thought the cozy lattice-walled enclave with the wicker furniture was filmed elsewhere, not believing there was enough space around the house for that setting. Thanks for pointing out some details which cleared things up.
Great video Adam! This was one of my all time favorites growing up.
I absolutely love this stuff.
Woo! Woo!
Days Of Thunder filming locations needs to happen!!!!!! The barn is still in Charlotte but its definitely getting old these days 😞
@TheDailyWoo
5 жыл бұрын
That would be a fun one
@BrendanTheGent
5 жыл бұрын
I live right down the road from the barn!
@InfieldIke
5 жыл бұрын
BrendanTheGent Thats awesome!! I was lucky enough to visit it when I was in the area for the ROVAL race.. Im a huge fan of Days of Thunder lol
@BrendanTheGent
5 жыл бұрын
@@InfieldIke i need to film it for youtube. Before anything happens to it. Haha i was at the Roval race also.
I was in the Navy assigned to VF-1 The Wolfpack about 4 years after the movie was made. My squadron is the one they used to make the movie with. A squadron mate of mine and myself spent about a year off and on hunting down locations from the movie in 1991. Because we were in the Navy and worked in the hanger everyday where a lot of the movie was shot we had access to almost every location that was used in the movie. No one at that time was looking for these locations and there were no internet forums to help find these places. We did have one thing going for us though and it was the fact that a lot of guys we were stationed with had been around when the movie was made and they helped us locate a bunch of locations. The famous bathroom scene was filmed on the Navy Recruit base. When I was in boot camp I, was assigned the job of cleaning the bathrooms in the evening after hours at the headquarters building. That's were I found the women's bathroom which is were the bathroom scene was filmed and that started my curiosity to find the rest of the places later on once I was stationed at Miramar. I think we found every single location of importance used. The volleyball court was in front on my barracks so I walked across that almost everyday LOL. I have a photo album that has all of the locations as they were in 1991.
Being from the Kansas city area and noticing the kansas city picture on the wall behind Tom Cruise in a scene was awesome in the bar classic movie 👍