Road Scenes from "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1962)
Last modified November 22, 2007

From the film's opening credits: "Our thanks and apologies to the following California communities: Agoura, Kernville, Long Beach, Malibu, Oxnard, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Palo Verde Estates, San Pedro, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, Twentynine Palms, Universal City, Yucca Valley".

***Many thanks to all that have helped locate scene locations***

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This stunt was done near the end of the runway of the Chino airport. Perhaps the road is Euclid Ave, CA 83?
Gerry Chudleigh's page on the Rancho Conejo airport scenes (Newbury Park, California)

"(?)" indicates location is a guess
"(no ID)" indicates the site hasn't been identified
Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Yucca Valley
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Opening scene. CA 74, 7 Level Hill near Palm Desert
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CA 74, 7 Level Hill
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CA 74, 7 Level Hill
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Bob Hope Drive north of Frank Sinatra Drive.
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I think the sign says "San Jacinto homes" or "San Jacinto Springs"?
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Bob Hope Drive north of Frank Sinatra Drive.
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms (Wonder Valley)
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms (Wonder Valley)
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms
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CA 62 east of 29 Palms
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CA 247 a few miles north of Yucca Valley.
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CA 247 about 5 miles north of Yucca Valley, northbound near Pipes Canyon Road.
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SW corner, CA 62 @ Kickapoo Tr, Yucca Valley. Now a 7-11.
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Worsley Rd (old CA 62) near N. Palm Springs.
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CA62 at Balsa Ave, Yucca Valley

N. from 29 Palms Hwy at Acoma Trail in Yucca Valley
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The car is going north on Mesquite Springs Road in 29 Palms, and is airborne as it crosses Twomile road.
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Bob Hope Drive at Ramon Rd just south of I-10

Ray & Irwin's Gas Station. Near the bottom of the CA 74 grade into Palm Desert.

  


"He just went sailing out there." Paving the ramp for the opening scene car jump. Thanks to Paul Scrabo for obtaining this shot.


Soledad Canyon Road Tunnel near Canyon Country (Santa Clarita)
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Agoura and Calabasas area
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Mulholland / Valley Circle at 101 near Calabasas.
2004 view of this location.
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101 expressway near Agoura
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101 expressway near Agoura
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Cornell Rd, Agoura Hills just off the 101 expwy
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Gas station, 99 miles of fwy sign. I had an ID of this as Chesebro just off 101, near Kanan Rd.
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Mulholland @ Las Virgenes-Malibu Cyn Rd(?)
  
Mulholland @ Las Virgenes. Thanks to R.L. Harrison for a reproduction of the lower sign.

California Incline, Santa Monica
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Building is no longer there

Malibu

PCH @ Corral & Solstice Cyn, Malibu (the 76 station has moved to the other side of Corral Cyn Rd)

PCH (note Alt US101 sign) at Puerco Canyon Road, Malibu. Puerco Canyon Rd no longer goes south of PCH.

PCH at Puerco Canyon Road. This segment, which connected Malibu Road to PCH, is gone.

Malibu Rd near PCH, Malibu.

Channel Islands Harbor near Oxnard

I think the street with the telephone poles is Victoria Ave near its south end.

Marina

Marina

Marina

Long Beach
Map of downtown Long Beach from 1964 showing the pontoon bridge, along with the Rainbow Pier and the Pike (all gone now).
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Long Beach pontoon bridge (replaced by the Gerald Desmond Bridge) that used to connect Ocean Blvd and Terminal Island.
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Long Beach pontoon bridge.
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Long Beach pontoon bridge (at the left is the "Herman the German" crane in the L.B. Naval Shipyard)
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Ocean Blvd @ Pine (old Pike Amusement Park in the background)

Rainbow Pier and the Pike
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Ocean Blvd @ Linden

Long Beach Blvd @ 10th St, Long Beach

Long Beach Bl between 9th & 10th St, L.B. (the old house is still there)

Long Beach Blvd @ 9th St, Long Beach
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Looking east on 7th St, a little east of Atlantic Blvd in Long Beach.
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Broadway (with the Edison Bldg. in the background) at Elm, Long Beach

Imperial Hardware at 5th and Locust. It was torn down and now is the location of a WalMart.

Long Beach Blvd @ 6th St, Long Beach, in front of the YMCA building (not in this view and since torn down) that stood in for the Police Station in the movie.

Long Beach Blvd near 6th St, Long Beach

On the roof with the ornamental seashells. This is the Insurance Exchange Building at 201 E. Broadway, which has been converted into lofts

Palos Verdes Peninsula

The parking lot sequences were shot at Peck Park in San Pedro (Western & Summerland, back end of the driveway). The actual park site of "Santa Rosita State Park" was the grounds of a private residence at Portuguese Point in Rancho Palos Verdes, just south of Abalone Cove Shoreline Park.
2003 view of the Big W location.
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