John Candy's SUMMER RENTAL Filming Locations | THEN & NOW 

I wish there were a whole lot more John Candy movies. I love all movies he's in. I'm hoping they're recovering well down there from the hurricane.

I've spent my life watching movies. From a small dark corner of the world and from a forgotten man who lives in solice of the shadows, thank you. For a moment, I was 8 years old again.

One of my favorite John Candy movies - we lost him way too soon. Thank you Jordan and we all appreciate how much time and effort goes into these vlogs. Plus you knowledge and commentary are perfect! Greetings from Florida!!🌴🦩☀️🪸😊🥰☺️❤️

John Candy was one of my favorite actors. The day he died, just like John Ritter, I cried. I am glad that you did this, as I wouldn’t have imagined anything would’ve been left. I would love to buy that theater and do something with it. regardless, thank you for doing this film. I always loved it and it’s always on my rotation of movies to watch. Hope all is well.

The guy in the red hat is the best! That scene you speak of when John Candy goes upstairs and finds him in the bed with the dog NEVER gets old! I laugh so hard every time! Born in 82 and grew up watching all of John's movies, thanks to my Dad who was a huge fan. My Dad passed away suddenly this past June. Seeing this vlog made me smile and think of them. Thanks Jordan ❤

The fan response to this movie never ceases to amaze me. I/we only thought of it (at the time) as a local movie with limited appeal. As a young adult living on Indian Rocks Beach (life long resident), I had a neighbor who was friends with Carl Reiner. One thing led to another and me and several of my beach friends had the opportunity to be extras in the movie. I got on screen appearance in 4 different scenes, however many others were cut. The 10 day on-set experience was great, a bit long and boring at times, but a wonderful time. I was lucky enough (also because of my neighbor) to have dinner one night with John Candy, Carl Reiner, Richard Crenna and several others I can't recall. I spent time with John and he was a genuinely nice man. He was always gracious, humble and friendly. During dinner he gave me tips on how to get noticed in background scenes and gave me cues when filming to get on camera. Any who, I'm so glad so many people like the movie. It was a fun time and John is most certainly missed.

I love most John Candy films, he is definately one of the most important comedic actors of the 80's !!! I love the part when they move into the apartment and then the family comes home that lives there lol

An amazing amount of preparation work Jordan does preparing these RU-vid presentations I hope everybody appreciates his labor. He’s got travel costs food cost editing time etc. this is not easy work. I’m sure it’s a labor of love but nevertheless this is not easy stuff.

@ 8:10 you are actually a block off on this location. When the people are walking by the Chester rented house heading to the public beach that was actually filmed at the left side of the house used for the movie, no "movie magic" was used there. You were at the correct location where the house once stood at 12:17 and that was where all the house scenes and also the scene with the people walking by the house towards the beach were filmed. So the house you show at 9:10 doesn't appear in the movie in the background, again you were a block off the correct house in that scene shown in the background is at house number 15815 there on Gulf Blvd directly across the street from where the Chester's rented house in the film once stood. Also the Chester's car wouldn't have been parked in the back as you suggest, it was in the front to the right of the house there was a driveway so that is where the scenes with Jack about to take Laurie to preschool and Jennifer meets the lifeguard that was all filmed at the front of the house. There is a pretty interesting article in the May 19, 1985 St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times that describes all the work they did converting the house that once stood there into the ugly house the Chester family rented you see in the movie, there even is a picture of the house in the article on how the house actually looked in reality before it was transformed for the movie.

One of my favorite John Candy movies along with Uncle Buck and Cool Runnings. I could watch Summer Rental any day even when it’s not summer it never gets old if I need a laugh and I’m only selecting the big roles that he was in as my favorite of his not small roles.

Appreciated seeing this! We sure loved John Candy. He was a awesome person and a Canadian national treasure😉! Luv&Peace Jordan & Jah!✌🏼

Johns one of the best and I wish we could of seen more of him in dramas as well. Not only hilarious but he could absolutely act in a serious role. Rip jc.

I love this movie and it is really nice to see what the area looked like back then. It would be fun to see the cut parts about Busch Gardens too. That is so different now. Didn't know they filmed there. Thanks for sharing!

My dad and i used to watch John Candy and Chevy Chase when i was young. I remember watching this one when it came out. Such a great movie and i have the best memories with my pops because of it. Thanks Jordan and safe travels bro!

Oh my gosh!! this was one of my favorite movies as a kid it was a few years before me but I rewatched of course on VHS. this and girls just wanna have fun was two of my top tier movies!

Excellent job, it would have been cool to watch the movie in that theater when it came out, especially if you didn't know there was a scene shot there and all the sudden you see the exact same place you're watching it.

Love this movie so very much. Kind of reminds me of my Pop and our Summer Vacations that well let's just say didn't go as My Pop planned. Thank You John Candy For The Gift That Was Your Genius.

When they used to play this on HBO, it had a funny extra scene that isn't on the DVD, with the dog biting off one of the sofa legs at the first house.

Thank you for this. Love John Candy. Such an awesome guy both onscreen and off. Proud that he is a fellow Canadian. Another favorite movie of mine that he did is "The Great Outdoors". Would love to see those filming locations.

I love John Candy. I'm watching this movie today after so many years 👍❤

Ooh I love hushpuppies, when my husband & I went to Virginia Beach we ate in Newport News @The Crab Shack on the pier......they had some amazing hushpuppies 😋

This was great! When I was a little kid, my parents had an apartment on Treasure Island and we would often walk along the beach to John's pass, walk over the bridge and get fried fish at one of the "hole in the wall" restaurants over there. I have fond memories of that time period, so in addition to being cool filming locations, it's also a blast from my actual past! I probably saw movies at that old theater!

John Candy was my favourite actor growing up 80s and 90s, a fun Summer movie 🤩🤣🦞Love filming locations, thanks Jordan

I love how the sign on the bridge says John's pass and I just realized the wife's name was Sandy..clever

Always amazed at the amount of research and organization it must take to produce these 'filming location' vlogs. This was another great one - many thanks Jordan.

When I was young I actually was in this movie as an extra on the beach scene....it was in Remington beach I met John candy and he was very nice guy.

This is an all time favorite - a movie a person can watch repeatedly. Classic! Thank you Jordan!

Love every John candy movies! Love the part in this movie where the neighbors wife flashes him him face was priceless! Lol and love how he uses his pants to win! Love it!

I literally watch this movie once or twice a year. I guess this is a comfort movie from my childhood. Plus, movies like that are not made anymore. There was an innocene about it that no longer exist in todays society. :(

I lived in St. Pete off of Gandy for a while during the early 00's and had no idea this flick was filmed there!

Such an underrated comedy. So happy you finally did the filming locations for Summer Rental. I was hoping you’d reenact the guy in the red hat burping lmao

Jordan thank you so much. I loved John Candy so much and still miss him. Life was funnier when he was around his movies are classic!

Excellent tour of the filming locations. I'm actually here in the Tampa Bay area and have loved this movie ever since it came out. I, too, consider it a classic and usually watch it once a year or so just for a smile. It's too bad a print of that original cut doesn't exist just to see some more of the area from back in the day. Ed

John Candy was , and still is my fav.

Great Vlog Jordan! I did not know Summer Rental was filmed in the greater St Pete Beach area. I have been going there for 20+ years or so. As always, look forward to your next adventure.

We visited a few of these sites when we were there a year ago.

Great vlog Jordan! Thank you. ~Love&Light♥️Carli

Love this movie, thanks for sharing such a gem!!

a GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Great Flick, Awesome job, Jordan !! :)

I am a long time subscriber to your channel. Mr. The Philly Capt was talking about this movie a said go to your channel to watch your video. So here we are!!!!!

From Washington Missouri so thank you both.

I ABSOLUTELY love your videos! THANK YOU!💕

So cool to have you vlogging in my town. Been watching your videos for years and never thought you’d be here. Do Cocoon next

Great video Jordan and yes this was an awesome i enjoyed watching the filming locations.

Summer Rental has always been my favorite John Candy movie! Thank you for this! Love all your videos!!

Great Vlog Jordan, I love summer rental it's a great movie. I love John Candy movies and I remember having a crush on Kerri Green.

i love this movie i miss John candy he was super funny

I live down here and this was cool to see. There are also a lot of Cocoon locations in St. Pete. Did you film those too while you were here? Or maybe you've already done a Cocoon video in the past :)

Thank you what a gift ❤

I love this movie, one of my all time favorites!

Great vlog Jordan. RIP John Candy and Rip Torn. You are both missed.

We love this movie! Thank you both for doing this! 😇

Hey Jordon THE PHILLY CAPTAIN LET HIS VIEWERS KNOW YOU DID A VLOG ON HIS FAVORITE ACTOR AS WELL.😊 Thank you for Honoring a true Great Actor that we all loved. John candy will always will be remembered for this FAVORITE as as UNCLE BUCK and Planes ,trains and Automobiles. and home alone..Which Hollywood really recognized him .his early days were on second city TV. It was then he was viewed as being really funny.😂. John candy admired steve MartIn ..in an interview he said steve .Martin was his mentor.SUMMER RENTAL made everyone laugh 😅 in the movie theater never stopped since. We lost a Lot of actors that touched our hearts in manny ways but John had a heart ❤️ of gold. And it showed. GOD BLESS HIM I KNOW HES LOOKING DOWN FROM HEAVEN SMILING AT YOU HONORING HIM.😊..I didnt know of you knew his daughter is in that commercial plaxcovid? She's in a pink night gown saying if its covid plaxcoid 😂 she looks so much like him...I heard his son is in music and following in his dads footsteps...well thank you again for your work on letting us see where the movie was shot and what's they're now.😊 he will never be mimicked or replaced . GOD BLESS YOU AND US ALL😊

Also I was there as a kid. We drove over the bridge and saw all the cameras and film equipment. My mom said oh look they are filming a movie. That was the movie. We were there spring break 1985 and stayed at the Madeira Vista. I think I narrowed it down to what scenes they were filming.

I never knew John candy did a movie in st Pete I have been going to st Pete all my life

Such a great movie! I’ve lived in this area my whole and this video is amazing with matching up locations for it

Love this Jordan, I’ve never seen the movie so I’ll have to look it up and watch it and look for the cool things you’ve shown us..🤪🥰😛

Beautiful scenery. Food looked good. Thanks for taking us along. Take care.

The two buildings in the background in the volleyball scene are actually the Mansions by the Sea condos on Treasure island.

Awesome

That was awesome to watch. You did an excellent job on the video I was disappointed that a lot of it is gone. I talked to John candy during filming they were doing something at demons landing in st Pete I was skipping school that day LOL he was such a Freindly guy.

Summer rental, i have watched a bizzilon times! John candy was a TREASURE, I miss him

Gosh we forgot how much we loved this movie 🎥 until you reminded us of it ❤. Such a fun one to do!!! And fun to get a little snipit of your lady 😍. Hope to see more of her someday in the vlogs 💕

Loved it! Great movie location segment. While you were in town, you should have done the filming locations for Ron Howard's Cocoon.....

I love Summer Rental. The movie didn’t come to my small town theater but I rented it on VHS as soon as it came out. Subsequently recorded it when it was on tv. Watched it so many tim. Thanks for highlighting the filming locations.

Love this movie, what a great idea Jordan ! I live close can wait to visit some of these locations

One of my favorite movies with John Candy

Your videos bring back so many fun memories. Thank you so much Jordan. :)

You was only 2 hrs from me west, I have family is the burg as we used to call it, I live in sebring. I used to live in the burg for years. Johns pass is great been there many times. very nice job

Great job tracking down all these places! I love when you do movie locations!

Hilarious movie!! Good job picking and executing this one 👏 👍

The Philly captain sent me👋🏻Summer rental is a great movie

Very cool vlog, we lost John Candy way too soon RIP😿💔😿 ty Jordan as usual you produced a great vlog😎

Well done with the locations! Cool seeing it then and now!

Hey Jordan very much enjoyed your blog about Summer Rental and appreciate all the research you do

Tampa bay area is one of the awesome places to visit in Florida. So many beaches and a lot things to see!

Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.

Thanks I love that movie I enjoyed watching 👍

Very cool video Jordan. Thank you.

Love this Jordan

I’ve never watched this movie But I am now love John candy 🥀

Really enjoyed this video bro. Thank you! Earned a new subscriber👍🏼

My favorite was One crazy summer with John Cuzak. This sounds similar. I watched it years ago but I didn't know the history. Thanks Jordan!

Absolutely enjoyed this one Jordan! My family has has had property on that beach my whole life and I knew the movie was filmed around there but you showed me some new spots I didn’t know about. My favorite John Candy movie and my favorite beach! Thank you!!!

Super cool video! I love that John Candy passed by John's Pass! 2:41

That was brilliant 👍

Thanks for the entertaining video and memories, use to live in Seminole some years back.

Perfect location review

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Hi Jordan, Florida looks absolutely lovely. It really does have some beautiful buildings. Oh that beach, it looks amazing. I will have to watch this film as I've never seen it, it looks hilarious. Great vlog Jordan.

Hi there That was great! I also love that movie!

Thank you!❤

Nice dude, you're actually in my backyard! Sorry it's a bit chilly down here right now!

Great job matching up locations!

Greetings from West Florida

Love this movie! Belive it or not they crossed the bridge the other way. You can see two older buildings in the shot...still there. We did our own video on this and I had trouble finding the house in Atlanta.

Have you ever filmed the location for summer of 42? Talk about a legendary film. It was one of my all time favorites and a classic.

Good vlog. TFS

Canadian bacon is a real good funny one too!!