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This location is open to the public and offers tours!
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| After Marty has a creepy encounter with his Mother and her family in 1955, he foots it across town over to Doc Brown's, only to discover that the house Doc had been living in in 1985 was merely the Garage of his former mansion! (If you pay close attention in the film, you'll notice that Doc Brown's mansion burned down on Wednesday, August 1, 1962. Now that's a bit of trivia for you!)
Just off the route of the famous Rose Parade in Pasadena California, we find the location used for Doc Brown's 1955 Mansion. This used to be the summer home of one of the founders of Proctor & Gamble, and is actually quite a famous piece of architecture. This site is easily accessible and you are allowed to walk freely on the grounds, although they do charge a fee for tours of the interior.
Due to the historic nature of the location, Back to the Future was not allowed to film inside the Gamble house, so the location was only used for exterior shots of the house and driveway, and the front doors of the garage (in the scene from Part I where Doc runs from the front door into the garage. The interior shots, including the shots of Marty standing on the front porch, were filmed a few blocks away at another famous, but privately owned, house by the same architects, Greene & Greene. That house has another page to itself located here.
For detailed information about the History of the Gamble house, as well as excellent directions and visitor information, visit their website by clicking the link above!
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The Mansion in the Film (Screenshot from Back to the Future - Part I)
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Doc's Mansion as of January 2005. Oviously, we don't have a crane to put our camera on so we don't get the same shots, but you can easily identify it. In fact, the Gamble house recently underwent exterior restoration, so it remains one of the sites that is virtually unchanged.
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The Garage. When Marty first approaches Doc's mansion, he recognizes the garage, which (if you've followed the storyline carefully) is the only part of the house that survived a fire. If you pay attention, you will notice that Doc's house in 1985 is the Garage of his original mansion.
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The Gamble house garage in 2005. Nothing about this building has changed since the filming, but it's important to know that the interior of Doc's garage - both 1955 and 1985 - were filmed on a soundstage and not inside of the actual Garage. However, the Gamble house garage is actually the Gift Shop for the Gamble house, and is open to the public every day, so it is easily accesible. But if you want to get a shot of it with the doors closed, you'll have to wait until after the gift shop closes. More information about the Gamble house at The Gamble House Website.
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The Gamble house door. You can see this is NOT the door used in the film, although it is very similar and typical for a Greene & Greene. And by typical for Greene & Greene I what I mean is a masterpiece.
January 2005. We have many photos of the Gamble House dating back over the last few years, so expect so see many more photos here soon!
The Gamble house Gift Shop - "Doc's 1955 Garage/Lab"
The Gamble house in Early 2004 while undergoing restoration work.
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