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  • JeffreyJeffrey The Netherlands
    Posts: 308
    Very cool @EHollander, especially love the LALD ones :)
  • EHollanderEHollander
    Posts: 3,687
    Here are some photos one of my best buds took with his wife in Portugal...
    The Hotel where Bond and Tracy stay in OHMSS...

    [img][/img]48695470477_6ce5a25fdb_o.jpgIMG_5658 2 by ErikHollander, on Flickr


    48695298491_8803129209_o.jpgIMG_5682 by ErikHollander, on Flickr


    And where Bond rescues Tracy in the PTS of OHMSS...

    [img][/img]48694957413_3e6fce4fa6_o.jpgIMG_5764 by ErikHollander, on Flickr

    [img][/img]48695470852_f34f7246c5_o.jpgIMG_5777 by ErikHollander, on Flickr

    [img][/img]48695470932_00cfd3cdef_o.jpgIMG_5815 2 by ErikHollander, on Flickr
  • EHollanderEHollander
    Posts: 3,687
    Jeffrey wrote: »
    Very cool @EHollander, especially love the LALD ones :)

    Thanks. Those were among my favorite spots to visit.
  • EHollanderEHollander
    Posts: 3,687
    00Agent wrote: »
    Time to bring this wonderful thread back.

    Beginning of march i finally made it to Piz Gloria for the 50th anniversary, after planning this trip for almost 4 years.
    First stop was Bern, capitol of Switzerland, where the Gumbold office scenes were filmed for OHMSS.

    The entrance to Gumbolds office is located right next door to the Schweizerhof Hotel where a lot of the interior shots were done. This was a cool little moment for me as i've finally managed to stand in the footsteps of all 6 Bond actors in some part of the world. The Cafe Breslin on the right side is still there, 50 years later.
    ky0sMSZ.jpg

    Most of the interior shots in Bern were shot in the 5 star Hotel Schweizerhof. Back in the Hotel, the Lift and Stairs are seen in OHMSS when Bond enters the Gumbold office building. A lot of the interior here has changed, but the lift and stairs are still recognizable.
    lou3vOx.jpg

    The Concierge at the Hotel was a Bond fan himself. When he went to show us our room he said "We have two elevators here but i prefer this one as it was used in a Bond film once."
    fl1uZ4n.jpg

    The Hotel staff is very friendly and accomodating, they are proud of their Bond heritage and even have a plate on the door to Room 411, informing guests that parts of OHMSS was filmed here on the balcony.
    fOh0oxY.jpg
    I have to give a big shout out to them for letting me on to the balcony of said room to take some pictures.
    35K7A0J.jpg

    Next stop was Lauterbrunnen and i am still amazed at how much of it looks just like 50 years ago. Very little has changed about the place and i kept spotting Bond related stuff purely by accident.

    This is the Train station in Lauterbrunnen that Bond arrives in. It has been reworked and expanded, but the kiosk with the magazines is still in the same spot on the right side.
    AzzDtFM.jpg

    The street that you see Bunt and Bond drive up, after his arrival in Lauterbrunnen.
    6NvPxNs.jpg

    This is the Central Bus station in the neighbour village Grindelwald, where the whole Ice Scating sequence was shot. You can recognize the Building in the Background when you watch the scene.
    5iJndSY.jpg

    The Cable car station where Bunt and the Angels of Death split.
    IZp7WEF.jpg

    Birg station where Shaun Campbell, the blonde agent helping Bond, is leaning against the railing and observing the cable car coming down from Piz Gloria. You can see Piz Gloria in the background on the mountain top.
    sZwS50u.jpg

    And this is the Spot where he's arguing with Blofelds minions about going up to Piz Gloria.
    Gw8xj0o.jpg

    And Piz Gloria in all it's glory.
    JezBHvm.jpg
    z67Laqc.jpg

    The Bar inside Piz Gloria is like a little Bond Theme Park, i loved it. Everything is Bond themed there, the Food and the drinks, and they play scenes of the film on screens, presumably on the exact spot where they were filmed. In the back you can see the original golden stair railings, that are still there.
    tmfTgHR.jpg
    drJll7e.jpg

    What a view... to a kill...
    ZmNJTnL.jpg

    Loved this trip all the way through. And i definitly plan to come back one day when i learned to ski, and go from Piz Gloria all the way down to the village, like Bond did in OHMSS.

    Next stop for me will be Lisbon in September.

    This would be my number one Bond location to visit! Awesome photos!!!!!
  • 00Agent00Agent Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.
    edited September 2019 Posts: 5,185
    EHollander wrote: »
    00Agent wrote: »
    Time to bring this wonderful thread back.

    Beginning of march i finally made it to Piz Gloria for the 50th anniversary, after planning this trip for almost 4 years.
    First stop was Bern, capitol of Switzerland, where the Gumbold office scenes were filmed for OHMSS.

    The entrance to Gumbolds office is located right next door to the Schweizerhof Hotel where a lot of the interior shots were done. This was a cool little moment for me as i've finally managed to stand in the footsteps of all 6 Bond actors in some part of the world. The Cafe Breslin on the right side is still there, 50 years later.
    ky0sMSZ.jpg

    Most of the interior shots in Bern were shot in the 5 star Hotel Schweizerhof. Back in the Hotel, the Lift and Stairs are seen in OHMSS when Bond enters the Gumbold office building. A lot of the interior here has changed, but the lift and stairs are still recognizable.
    lou3vOx.jpg

    The Concierge at the Hotel was a Bond fan himself. When he went to show us our room he said "We have two elevators here but i prefer this one as it was used in a Bond film once."
    fl1uZ4n.jpg

    The Hotel staff is very friendly and accomodating, they are proud of their Bond heritage and even have a plate on the door to Room 411, informing guests that parts of OHMSS was filmed here on the balcony.
    fOh0oxY.jpg
    I have to give a big shout out to them for letting me on to the balcony of said room to take some pictures.
    35K7A0J.jpg

    Next stop was Lauterbrunnen and i am still amazed at how much of it looks just like 50 years ago. Very little has changed about the place and i kept spotting Bond related stuff purely by accident.

    This is the Train station in Lauterbrunnen that Bond arrives in. It has been reworked and expanded, but the kiosk with the magazines is still in the same spot on the right side.
    AzzDtFM.jpg

    The street that you see Bunt and Bond drive up, after his arrival in Lauterbrunnen.
    6NvPxNs.jpg

    This is the Central Bus station in the neighbour village Grindelwald, where the whole Ice Scating sequence was shot. You can recognize the Building in the Background when you watch the scene.
    5iJndSY.jpg

    The Cable car station where Bunt and the Angels of Death split.
    IZp7WEF.jpg

    Birg station where Shaun Campbell, the blonde agent helping Bond, is leaning against the railing and observing the cable car coming down from Piz Gloria. You can see Piz Gloria in the background on the mountain top.
    sZwS50u.jpg

    And this is the Spot where he's arguing with Blofelds minions about going up to Piz Gloria.
    Gw8xj0o.jpg

    And Piz Gloria in all it's glory.
    JezBHvm.jpg
    z67Laqc.jpg

    The Bar inside Piz Gloria is like a little Bond Theme Park, i loved it. Everything is Bond themed there, the Food and the drinks, and they play scenes of the film on screens, presumably on the exact spot where they were filmed. In the back you can see the original golden stair railings, that are still there.
    tmfTgHR.jpg
    drJll7e.jpg

    What a view... to a kill...
    ZmNJTnL.jpg

    Loved this trip all the way through. And i definitly plan to come back one day when i learned to ski, and go from Piz Gloria all the way down to the village, like Bond did in OHMSS.

    Next stop for me will be Lisbon in September.

    This would be my number one Bond location to visit! Awesome photos!!!!!

    Thanks @EHollander
    Your pics are amazing as well. Only locations i visited in America were the NYC ones so far. Goldeneye would easily be my number 1 to visit right now.

    By the way, where is that rig from Dr. No located?
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,108
    Nice work, @EHollander! I tried some Quiller Memorandum shots in Berlin a couple of months ago and discovered just how hard it is to match the angle of a photo to the film.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,506
    I absolutely love this thread and motivates me even more for the future to one day visit these places myself!
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
    Posts: 2,539
    Fantastic photos, @EHollander! Is that clown-balloon thing still in Vegas??
  • EHollanderEHollander
    Posts: 3,687
    ggl007 wrote: »
    Fantastic photos, @EHollander! Is that clown-balloon thing still in Vegas??

    That was back in 2010, so I'm not sure. It was at Circus Circus.
  • EHollanderEHollander
    Posts: 3,687
    00Agent wrote: »
    EHollander wrote: »
    00Agent wrote: »
    Time to bring this wonderful thread back.

    Beginning of march i finally made it to Piz Gloria for the 50th anniversary, after planning this trip for almost 4 years.
    First stop was Bern, capitol of Switzerland, where the Gumbold office scenes were filmed for OHMSS.

    The entrance to Gumbolds office is located right next door to the Schweizerhof Hotel where a lot of the interior shots were done. This was a cool little moment for me as i've finally managed to stand in the footsteps of all 6 Bond actors in some part of the world. The Cafe Breslin on the right side is still there, 50 years later.
    ky0sMSZ.jpg

    Most of the interior shots in Bern were shot in the 5 star Hotel Schweizerhof. Back in the Hotel, the Lift and Stairs are seen in OHMSS when Bond enters the Gumbold office building. A lot of the interior here has changed, but the lift and stairs are still recognizable.
    lou3vOx.jpg

    The Concierge at the Hotel was a Bond fan himself. When he went to show us our room he said "We have two elevators here but i prefer this one as it was used in a Bond film once."
    fl1uZ4n.jpg

    The Hotel staff is very friendly and accomodating, they are proud of their Bond heritage and even have a plate on the door to Room 411, informing guests that parts of OHMSS was filmed here on the balcony.
    fOh0oxY.jpg
    I have to give a big shout out to them for letting me on to the balcony of said room to take some pictures.
    35K7A0J.jpg

    Next stop was Lauterbrunnen and i am still amazed at how much of it looks just like 50 years ago. Very little has changed about the place and i kept spotting Bond related stuff purely by accident.

    This is the Train station in Lauterbrunnen that Bond arrives in. It has been reworked and expanded, but the kiosk with the magazines is still in the same spot on the right side.
    AzzDtFM.jpg

    The street that you see Bunt and Bond drive up, after his arrival in Lauterbrunnen.
    6NvPxNs.jpg

    This is the Central Bus station in the neighbour village Grindelwald, where the whole Ice Scating sequence was shot. You can recognize the Building in the Background when you watch the scene.
    5iJndSY.jpg

    The Cable car station where Bunt and the Angels of Death split.
    IZp7WEF.jpg

    Birg station where Shaun Campbell, the blonde agent helping Bond, is leaning against the railing and observing the cable car coming down from Piz Gloria. You can see Piz Gloria in the background on the mountain top.
    sZwS50u.jpg

    And this is the Spot where he's arguing with Blofelds minions about going up to Piz Gloria.
    Gw8xj0o.jpg

    And Piz Gloria in all it's glory.
    JezBHvm.jpg
    z67Laqc.jpg

    The Bar inside Piz Gloria is like a little Bond Theme Park, i loved it. Everything is Bond themed there, the Food and the drinks, and they play scenes of the film on screens, presumably on the exact spot where they were filmed. In the back you can see the original golden stair railings, that are still there.
    tmfTgHR.jpg
    drJll7e.jpg

    What a view... to a kill...
    ZmNJTnL.jpg

    Loved this trip all the way through. And i definitly plan to come back one day when i learned to ski, and go from Piz Gloria all the way down to the village, like Bond did in OHMSS.

    Next stop for me will be Lisbon in September.

    This would be my number one Bond location to visit! Awesome photos!!!!!

    Thanks @EHollander
    Your pics are amazing as well. Only locations i visited in America were the NYC ones so far. Goldeneye would easily be my number 1 to visit right now.

    By the way, where is that rig from Dr. No located?

    That was in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
  • japanauthorjapanauthor Japan
    Posts: 9
    Yes mainly in Japan for You Only Live Twice. Took photos and did comparisons very recently. Without boasting, I do like to think I identified some new ones. https://midcenturybond.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/the-definitive-guide-to-the-bond-locations-in-tokyo/
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
    Posts: 2,539
    japanauthor wrote: »
    Yes mainly in Japan for You Only Live Twice. Took photos and did comparisons very recently. Without boasting, I do like to think I identified some new ones. https://midcenturybond.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/the-definitive-guide-to-the-bond-locations-in-tokyo/

    Great work! Congratulations! One of the most exotic locations ever for an European...
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,571
    Yes indeed, a great article about my favourite Bond film.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 776
    AVTAK - San Francisco’s Fishermen’s Warf and near the Golden Gate Bridge (never been on it). That’s it. All I can claim. I’ve been to several US states but that’s it. Therefore, I’ve hardly been anywhere.

    I desperately want to go to the Bahamas, both as a Bond fan and because it’s the goddamn Bahamas. Particularly Paradise Island, locations from my 2 favorite Bond films, TB and CR.

    I’m a big Japanophile so I’ve always, always wanted to go to Japan. While there, I’d try to find a few YOLT locations. Man I’d love it if the Bond series returns to Japan at some point. They should especially do Okinawa. Hokkaido would be great too. Anyway...
  • BONDHDBONDHD Germany
    Posts: 4
    Furka Pass in Switzerland, where the Goldfinger car chase was filmed:

  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 7,980
    hahahaha well done! a very, very cool vid!!!!
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,108
    @BONDHD, that was glorious. Hats off to you. (Your sidekick is a very cool customer dealing with all the action!)
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 6,791
    Last summer I visited Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte near Paris. Besides being a very impressive château with equally impressive gardens, the château was also used as Hugo Drax’ Californian estate in Moonraker. Didn’t spot any astronauts training, but I still took some pictures:

    https://imgur.com/a/bpJjT7K

    This year I went to Château de Chantilly, from AVTAK, haven't uploaded anything from that one, but I'll probably do that in the near future.
  • delfloriadelfloria
    Posts: 1,708
    For what it's worth, I've scuba dived the cave, in the Bahamas, where SPECTRE hid the bombs in Thunderball.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 5,985
    I'd be interested in finding out where specifically they filmed the MR boat chase in Florida.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    Posts: 4,398
    echo wrote: »
    I'd be interested in finding out where specifically they filmed the MR boat chase in Florida.

    Wasn't it filmed in South America?
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 5,985
    No.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    Posts: 4,398
    I'm pretty sure that they said in a DVD documentary that they filmed in at least three different countries for the second MR boat chase. The waterfalls aren't in Florida (?)
  • marcmarc Universal Exports
    Posts: 2,609
    We've been to Gibraltar; since the cable car/siege tunnels/apes' den etc. were very expensive we decided to hike up the rock. Not the path Dalton rode down on the Land Rover, but it looked quite similar.
    Halfway up it started raining, so we went back, and it was also very foggy. But later from the dunes of the Atlantic coast we had a great view of Morocco.

    About MR:
    "The ‘Amazon’ boat chase was filmed on the North Fork of the St. Lucie River at Jupiter, north of Palm Beach on Florida’s east coast"
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 7,980
    goldenswissroyale wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure that they said in a DVD documentary that they filmed in at least three different countries for the second MR boat chase. The waterfalls aren't in Florida (?)

    I don't think the swamps are high enough to facilitate a waterfall
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,108
    I visited Stonor Park, a.k.a. the TLD safe house, today! The house is currently closed but you can wander round the grounds.

    It was an unexpectedly huge thrill to sweep up the drive and catch sight of the house just the way Bond does. I managed a photo stop on exit.

    EgXtGk5XgAUqyXz.jpg

    I carefully transported my model Huey all the way there and back for this ridiculously nerdy shot:

    832609-72075-74-1440.jpg

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 13,055
    Mission accomplished, @Agent_99. Nicely done.
  • Benjamin_Weekly69Benjamin_Weekly69 London
    Posts: 727
    Harlem. Lol.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    Posts: 2,541
    Love that nerdy shot @Agent_99
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    marc wrote: »
    We've been to Gibraltar; since the cable car/siege tunnels/apes' den etc. were very expensive we decided to hike up the rock. Not the path Dalton rode down on the Land Rover, but it looked quite similar.
    Halfway up it started raining, so we went back, and it was also very foggy. But later from the dunes of the Atlantic coast we had a great view of Morocco.


    Never been to Gibraltar, but have sailed past it.
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