Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, 1985
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visit the film locations
Los Angeles: Flights: Los
Angeles International Airport (LAX)
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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure filming location: Pee-wee’s house: Pasadena
Fun first feature-film outing for Tim Burton. The shopping mall, where Pee-Wee shops for magic stuff and gets his bicycle stolen, is the Santa Monica Place Shopping Mall, Fourth Street at Broadway, Santa Monica, LA.
The search for his bike takes him to the giant dinosaur, which you can seenat Cabazon, on I-10 near Palm Springs. The 150-foot-long concrete apatosaurus (the trendy new name for the brontosaurus) was built by Claude Bell, who ran the Wheel Inn Restaurant, 50900 Seminole Drive.
He also started a T Rex, which was left uncompleted on his death in 1988. The apatosaurus has a souvenir stall in its belly.
Pee Wee follows the trail to the Alamo, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Texas. The Pee-Wee Herman version of the Alamo tour is loads more fun than the dull solemnity of the real thing, basement or no basement (for full details see The Alamo).
The film studio is, of course, Warner Bros, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank. You can tour the studio, too. Unlike the Universal Studios theme park approach, WB has a small tour (see Casablanca for details).
