Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The Rockford Files - Here is another location we need identified - Ocean Side East Cafe

Anybody know where this ocean front restaurant was?
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 22, 2014 at 10:13 PM

    This location also used on a episode of columbo season 2

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  2. UnknownNovember 1, 2015 at 6:15 PM

    The location was Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

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  3. TedJuly 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM

    Sent this to a friend..

    Remember when you said at the beginning of The Rockford Files pilot that there is Columbo's car. I finally saw it again on TV. Someone here says that this was also in an earlier episode of Columbo. So it seems it is a borrowed shot from that show. But I'm thinking it isn't the Santa Monica Pier - but further south, because when the camera pans from the beach to the pier, the phone company building in SM looks like it's a ways away (as I recall, the SM pier is pretty close to the phone company). Maybe it was the old Pacific Ocean Park pier, which wiki says was demolished in 74-75 (since this shot is pre-1974)?

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  4. TedJuly 20, 2016 at 12:51 AM

    I watched it again on Hulu, and I now think that it is the Santa Monica Pier, since if it was the old Pacific Ocean Park pier - we would see the SM pier in the background. Btw, I just saw in another discussion that other posters already figured this out, as well as the Columbo episode the shot is originally from.

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