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BTTFTOUR.COM BREAKS ANOTHER LOCATION NOT SEEN SINCE THE MOVIES! I don't know about you, but watching BTTF as a kid really etched the series in my head! And one of the many sequences that really stuck in there like a bad song was the sequence where Marty loses Biff's henchmen in the stairwell after he learns when Biff got the almanac.
It never even occured to me that this stairway might exist outside of a soundstage. But when Michael J Burmeister, Location manager from parts II and III bequethed his locations list to BTTFtour, we discovered it was, in fact, a practical location, and one that you can go see!!
THE UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON, Built on the Hill outside the gate at Universal Studios, is the site of this location. We had the address, we had the info, everything was set!!
BUT - when we showed up to the hotel, which has security en masse against people like us aimlessly wandering, we discovered something interesting..
After going up the elevator and getting in the stairwell, we discovered that while it looked the same, something was dreadfully wrong. Somehow, we couldn't hop between stairways.. and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. There were TWO stairways in that scene.. and each set went to the same floor.. who would build that!?
Maybe it was a set piece after all... but no! A very wise man named Greg instantly pointed out that often such stairways are seen in Parking garages where the bottom and top doors on each stairwell lead to different places.
SO on Valentine's day 2007 we left home armed with the digital camera and 4 gallons of Gas, paid the very steep parking garage fee of $4.00/hr, and drove down to "P3" - after checking every stairwell, we found it! It's the wall that faces outwards, to the Northwest. In it are two stairwells with to starways apiece inside of them. You're looking for the one on your left.
This is the only website to EVER publish it's location. Please refer eople here when giving away it's location or give us credit. It took a lot of sleuthing to hunt the right one - and if they catch you anywhere on the premises taking pictures, they will ask you to destroy them. We narrowly were arrested for trespassing.. luckily, we paid to park in that garage! Ok, enough of all this, enjoy the pictures we're proud to present to you!
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