Laurel and Hardy - Bacon Grabbers (1929) - Filming Locations

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Laurel and Hardy on Venice Blvd at Bagley Avenue in Los Angeles.
Laurel and Hardy on Venice Blvd at Bagley Avenue in Los Angeles
In this one frame from the movie, we see several original buildings over a century old:
  • The building closest to the camera is 9345-49 Venice Blvd, built in 1923. This structure appears in dozens of comedy shorts filmed in the 1920s and 1930s. We get a very good close-up view in the 1927 Charley Chase movie The Sting of Stings / A Treat For The Boys (currently available to members-only).

  • Next to 9345 Venice Blvd is 9343 Venice Blvd, built in 1924 and looking very much the same today as it did when it was captured on film in 1929.

  • Each of the other buildings seen in the 1929 view are still there, though obscured by the trees.

Laurel and Hardy - Bacon Grabbers (1929) - Filming Locations

Film Title Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy
Primary Location Edgar Kennedy's House
10341 Bannockburn Drive, Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Street Intersection Venice Blvd & Bagley Avenue (Los Angeles, CA)
Era Captured Late silent era; early infrastructure of the Cheviot Hills residential boom
Current Status The 1928 Bannockburn Drive home remains standing; surrounding wide-open spaces fully developed

Production Note: Filmed on location as Cheviot Hills was first being subdivided, this short preserves an invaluable visual record of West Los Angeles landscape in the late 1920s.

The Plot

Deadbeat Edgar Kennedy is way behind on his installment payments for a radio he purchased and repo men Laurel and Hardy are dispatched to take the radio back.

Cheviot Hills Filming Locations: The Early Days of the Los Angeles Neighborhood

A late silent era Laurel and Hardy movie, Bacon Grabbers did much of its filming on location. The first stop on our tour has us following Laurel and Hardy in their trusty Model T Ford heading to Mr. Kennedy's house. We see them at the often-used filming location of the intersection of Venice Blvd and Bagley Avenue in Los Angeles. This intersection appears in many Laurel and Hardy movies, including:

The 1934 Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Honky-Donkey also filmed here.

Then, it's on to the primary filming location, Mr. Kennedy's house at 10341 Bannockburn Drive, built in 1928. In the late 1920s, this home's Cheviot Hills neighborhood was just being built out, and we get some spectacular views of the wide-open spaces that characterized this section of the Westside of Los Angeles prior to the late 1920s building boom.

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