OK, so we freeze framed a episode and your video at the same time, so cool! The growth of the tree for starters. As a kid that always bothered me that the house in the opening didn't match the porch in the episodes.....
Strange that I also remember a porch in some of the episodes. I suspect the script writers overlooked that detail due to all the porch episodes I remember were after season 1. I definitely remember Mike giving Archie a hug on the front porch before Mike moved to his new job out of state.
As a teen I saw the series on its original run, and as an adult I’ve seen it again and again, and not even once did I notice that. And you caught it as a kid... quite an observant kid, obviously!
All in the Family was based in Queens, NY but filmed in Studio 41 at CBS Television City, Hollywood in front of a live audience. This definitely looks like the house in the opening credits. So good job.
Yes the bunkers had a porch. I remember when Archie gave Stephanie a necklace and told her he loved her. On the porch. I remember when Beverly LaSalle died Edith was sad on the porch. I have been a fan of the show since 1997.
Norman Lear had such an eye for detail, I'm so surprised they got that front porch wrong. Back in the late 1990's, I had a co-worker that lived in Woodhaven, Queens. A mile or so from this video. The first time I went in his house, I was completely startled. The inside was IDENTICAL to the Bunker house. You walk in the front door, to the right was the closet. A little further was the three steps with a landing and a window going upstairs. The living room, dining area, then the swinging door going into the kitchen. It even had the stained glass cabinets in the living room. The front of the house was the same also. It had the cement stoop, but it was not attached to the house next door. it was free standing. So obviously Norman Lear wanted the whole house to be genuine.
The houses look so different. The block has "gentrification" written all over it. In other words, instead of, "Eee-dut, get me uh beeeer!" it's more like, "I believe I'll get myself a Perrier!"
Watching the Show RN. It's Amazing. ❤ it reminds me of my dad he absolutely loved Archie Bunker and he would sit at the kitchen counter and watch it every day after work on the 13inch TV we had in there, my mom would come home and start dinner and make her and my dad a high ball lol. He just laughed his Ass off while watching him. Thing is if one moves into a famous house like the Bunker House then one has to expect on- lookers. Just be respectful we saw you were. Thank you!
I'm always respectful because I know its their home. Thanks for the great story about your dad. He and I would have had a blast watching together. I have a Jeffersons video too--check it out
So did the Jeffersons move back into the neighborhood or are they still living in a de-lux apartment in the sky? Did you see Frank or Irene Lorenzo? They lived nearby.
They filmed this house and street for the 1968 pilot, which did have an enclosed front porch. In the actual series, the stage set had an open-air porch.
They don't make shows anywhere close to that anymore. I've been watching the repeats of Archie Bunker's Place lately, which I think is a underated show. One thing I always wondered, is it dummy up or gummy up, sounds like dummy up. Archie's expressions are one of a kind. That house,was a single family on the show. Thank you for sharing. God Bless!
Great fun, I hope to visit the house someday too. I think that if you own a home that's a piece of Hollywood history you should expect and agree that people drop by to video and photograph themselves there. But be respectful of their privacy. Thanks.
I've always wondered about that. The house they show in the credits is a duplex, but the Bunkers lived in a single-family, six-room house. I'm going to ask Barney Heffner about this.
It looks like a nice quiet street. The ending of this video when you're driving past the houses, I can hear (in my mind) the outro piano music that plays at the end of the episodes. It's funny though, how on a few episodes-a few characters from the show-stand on an actual front porch in front of house scenes, but obviously these duplexes or row houses don't have porches.
The original 1968 pilot (not shown on TV but can be found on RU-vid) had an enclosed porch like this. They gradually changed the set in the 2nd and 3rd pilots to the one we all know with the open porch, but sloppily left this enclosed one in opening sequence. I love how the houses bounce up and down as you walk down the street just like in the original.
This neighborhood is spot on with the character of Archie. Grew up here my whole life, I’m Mexican American so I’m like the black guys in the show haha.
Dude in the Video....You RULE!!!!!!!! If the coolness in the Universe was sucked into a black hole and it reemerged in one spot it would be in your physical embodiment. I could try to sum up the various elements of what makes this so....the fact that it is All in the Family, the I don't give a fuck that I am odd panache, the fact that a female is in the car waiting for you while you project this weirdness on the world and she is ok with it, the sunglasses, the devil may care goofiness, the spy element, the fact that you are on a MISSION, the fact that you have the luxury to do this.....the elements are too numerous to count. I could write a PHD dissertation on the topic. BRILLIANT...when the ages look back they will remember the Sistine Chapel, the plays of Shakespeare, the Mona Lisa, but they will forget this video.....But they shouldn't and if there was any justice in the world they wouldn't. Sincerely.
Sorry ...but you are wrong about Archie's house. The house you picked may well indeed be the house that is pictured at the beginning of an episode but it was only trying to give the audience a typical home where Archie ,Barnie ,Irene Lorenzo or George Jefferson might have lived. Archie's house had an open front porch, shown in many All in the Family and Archie Bunkers Place scenes. The house you picked out from opening scenes was never suppose to be Archie's actual house ,just a representation of his typical Queens suburb.
Nice to see how the house was remodeled with the sidings and the modern windows installed. 89 -70 Cooper Avenue. Flushing N.Y. 11374. The Family Matters house in Chicago was quite like that, but it was torn down almost a year ago.
I'm an individual that believes everything should be kept in it's original condition, the way it was originally built. I don't like when it's been changed. I would love to visit this house someday, I'm not that far from New York. I'm in Ontario Canada so it's roughly a day's drive.
For a moment I thought you were going to point out the gap between houses in the closing titles where a boy in a red coat eyes us warily for a fraction of a second. Ever since the series debuted I’ve wondered if he ever learned that he’d been glimpsed by countless millions of people and that millions and millions of others would catch those few frames far into the future, giving him a bizarre kind of “celebrity” status or claim to “fame” in television history, like the woman watching Mary Tyler Moore throw her hat into the air when the images freezes, or the man immortalized watching the Beatles as they walked across Abbey Road. Both of them did discover their accidental places in pop culture, by the way. Does anyone know if this boy was as lucky as they were? Thanks, anyone, and thanks to our tour guides and uploader. I enjoyed this.
You know, I have thought of the same thing. At the end of "Welcome Back, Kotter", There is a girl in a "Brooklyn" (Dodgers ?) jacket about whom I wondered the same thing
That may have been the house it shown. but it couldn't have been the Bunker house. The Bunkers had a porch, not s stopp. I've been saying that since 1973.
Wrong ... The exterior sot of the house during the opening credits has a stoop made of concrete and brick just as the person in the film indicated. You can see the opening credits ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bussWsppCok.html .. 44 second mark
I knew the house was across the street from a cemetery, having read that at Wikipedia. The house is in Glendale at 89-70 Cooper Avenue. Addresses in Queens are numbered that way; i.e. 36-16, 89-70, etc. If I'm ever up there, I wouldn't mind casually walking by the house, but I wouldn't carry any photographic equipment. I will say thanks to Jeff Giovanniello for this.
There was also several scenes of the Bunkers walking out the front door to a porch, which I didn't see in your video. All just part of the set, which I understand why.
It’s kind of funny how the cluster of homes have all had the windows replaced and done the vinyl siding and now they all look the same. Why does that happen?
That cemetery is All Faith's Cemetery, Luciano is not buried here. He's buried in St. John's Cemetery in Middle Village on Metropolitan Ave. Genovese, Gambino, and I think Bonanno and Columbo are buried here and a few other bosses. My great grandparents Joseph and Mary Johnson are buried in St. John's and my grandmother Grace and grandfather Ernie Radlein are buried in St. John's also.
@@tommcconville677 Wrong, the All in the Family house is at 89-70 Cooper Ave, Queens, NY which is directly across the street from St. John cemetery and Lucky Luciano's grave.
@@kenlompart9905 That photo of the Bunker home and the cemetery across the St. Is Mt. Carmen on Cooper St. St. John's is on Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village, and so is All Faith's, you don't what the hell you're talking about. That photo is NOT St. John's Cemetery because it's Middle Village on Metropolitan Ave., get a clue! I've visited it a half dozen times with my family to see my grandparents graves, it ain't in Glendale!
@@tommcconville677 Wrong again, look up 89-70 Cooper Ave, Queens, NY on google maps where the house is, the cemetery across the street is St. John, now go troll somewhere else.
I always thought that shot it in Hollywood. So you're telling me every week they had all kinds of camera Crews and other people over that house doing an episode?
You are correct. The show was recorded on video tape before a live audience in Hollywood. But the opening and closing were shot right here, just once, and used for the entire series.
Would would have guest a cemetery was across the street. They always portrayed it as if there were houses on the other side like the Lorenzo’s and Hefner’s. Looks like a kept up neighborhood.
I know!! And I means it’s hard to believe it’s Queens!! I used to be in Queens a lot as a kid mostly Jamaica, St Albans but the area reminds more more of suburban NJ. I think Archie wouldn’t be happen hearing me mention NJ. Once you walk up the street I can see Queens. Lol
Jeff Giovanniello I checked it out and you know what dawned on me while watching the first season opening of “The Jeffersons.” The “Different Strokes” building is seen as the moving truck is turning the corner.
I know it. This is the brown house you see in the beginning of the show. They zoom in on it when it says "Developed by Norman Lear." The house is blue now. They used this opening film in the original 1968 unaired pilot. That show had a completely different living room stage set. You should check it out. It was called "And Justice for All" starting carol oconnor
Why the writers utilized the address of Archie and Edith Bunkers house with the number 704, on Houser St. is not a credible or actual address number in Queens. Yes, it was done for tv and the creator Norman Lear and the writers. But addresses of houses in Queens contain 5 digits, 3 for the street and/ or ave. #, and the last 2 for the house no. For example, my cousins, aunt and uncle lived at 95-17 114St. when they lived in Richmond Hill. The only section of Queens which has standard street nos. is the Rockaways, we lived at 342 Beach 56th. St. 704 Houser was used as the Bunker house address so as not to confuse viewers who were not Queens residents I would presume.
I actually Googled it and boom--there it was. Not hard, really. When I got there, there was no mistaking it. Thanks for watching. Check out my Jeffersons video!
