I think a lot of those scenes were on the 118, maybe 210, in North LA area when it was being built, still closed.
Well, makes sense, thank you. I was trying to think how they shut down a freeway to film. Do yourself a favor and watch this. this is one of the greatest films ever made.
It was an unfinished/not connected stretch of highway north of Sylmar, just east of I-5. Can't recall if that leg was 210 or 118; 210 would be more logical, may have had both signs for a time...
Re: How did they make CHiPs?
[Re: topside]
#2838954 10/29/2007:19 PM10/29/2007:19 PM
One of my favorite shows to watch , then and now .. the cars, dirt bikes, vans, --the bikinis .. all bring me back .. ahhhh, the 70's and 80s so much fun
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Re: How did they make CHiPs?
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#2839168 10/30/2008:46 AM10/30/2008:46 AM
Per Wiki: 210 in Pasadena was not fully opened until 1974. The last section in the San Fernando Valley to be completed was between Highway 118 in Lake View Terrace, and Lowell Avenue in La Crescenta. While this section was largely completed by 1976, the portion between Sunland Boulevard and Wheatland Avenue (traversing the Tujunga Wash) was not fully completed until 1981. From 1976 to 1980, the uncompleted section of Interstate 210 (notably near the interchange with Highway 118, near the Paxton Street exit) was rented by Columbia Pictures Television for the filming of the television series, CHiPs.
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Re: How did they make CHiPs?
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#2839188 10/30/2009:46 AM10/30/2009:46 AM
I enjoyed CHiPs...Do a google search and look where Randi Oakes is from. I did not know her but I knew her older sister. I asked Leslie to buy me a bottle of vodka and hide it in the usual stop sign place. She bought a bottle of gin instead...Bleccchhhh! It tasted like a christmas tree! This was in the winter of 1973...
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Re: How did they make CHiPs?
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