Are You a Top Gun Fan? Get a Taste of Movie History While in Oceanside!

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• Oceanside’s ‘Top Gun’ house reopens as nostalgic pie shop

Kansas City Barbeque, at 600 W Harbor Drive, is a San Diego restaurant still going strong and was used for two lengthy scenes in the movie. It is much different from how it appeared in the late 1980s, however, the interior has remained roughly the same, and the bar’s managers keep the memory of the movie alive. The steep uphill drive on Laurel Street near the corner of Union Street can be easily recognized in a scene where Charlie chases down Maverick’s motorcycle in her car and they both pull over on the side of the road for their first kiss.

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The crew had to squeeze in filming sessions between work while the carriers sat docked off the San Diego coast. As it was in the original, San Diego and other California military towns played a major role in the sequel. While the real-life Top Gun program eventually moved from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar to an air base in Nevada, the Golden State is still home to some of the country’s best combat aviators. OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- The iconic "Top Gun" house is preparing for its official grand opening this week -- as a pie shop. OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Though it only received few minutes of screen time in the 1986 classic film "Top Gun," the little blue seaside cottage has become an enduring icon in Oceanside. Before starting her business, F/10, Lazar worked as a trader on the options floor of the stock exchange in San Francisco.

Hunter Biden threatens to sue Fox News for airing 'revenge porn'

The hit action film, Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, was filmed in 1986 at multiple San Diego county locations, most notably a home located on Pacific Street in Oceanside. Other San Diego filming locations include Kansas City Barbecue in Downtown San Diego and The New Point Loma Light House near Cabrillo National Monument. A sergeant with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police was on the task force, but was not struck by gunfire, Jennings said. The sergeant called for backup, and that's when the four responding officers from Charlotte-Mecklenburg police were shot, Jennings said. One marshal and two local officers working with the fugitive task force were killed.

Pigeon Point Light Station State Park, a fascinating lighthouse on the California Coast

Just like bar scenes in the original film, the fictional Hard Deck serves as a place for the Top Gun hotshots to have an unknowing first encounter with their instructor. And Miles Teller’s “Rooster” channels his dad, “Goose,” with a rendition of “Great Balls of Fire” (the 1986 performance was filmed in a San Diego barbecue joint you can still visit, by the way). First, it had to be relocated two blocks from its original site, at Pacific Street and Seagaze Drive, to a temporary work site for structural repair before finding its new home in the hotel’s courtyard overlooking the Oceanside Pier. Among the projects were restoring the wood cladding and front windows, dismantling the original chimney, and rebuilding it with the same historic bricks, and bringing back gingerbread details.

In 2008, she opened Cheeky’s, a brunch-centric Palm Springs restaurant where everything is made from scratch using locally sourced ingredients and the menu changes weekly. Since then, she has also opened a steakhouse, an Italian restaurant, a cocktail bar, a tiki bar and a catering company. Once at the hotel, the exterior was painted white and sky blue, with a red door to look like it had in Top Gun. Movie memorabilia was arranged throughout the interiors, modernized by Nicolò G. Bini at Line Architecture, whose past projects include Cara Delevingne’s home. Bini worked closely with the Oceanside Historical Society and Save Our Heritage Organization.

Oceanside's famed 'Top Gun' house reopens as nostalgic pie shop - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Oceanside's famed 'Top Gun' house reopens as nostalgic pie shop.

Posted: Sun, 08 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

A whitewashed background (particularly the fireplace, built-ins, panels, and moldings) is punched up with framed Victorian-era art along with needlepoint upholstery from artist Mary Lou Marks of Round Top, Texas. Her work can be seen on bar stools and the fireplace, where a faux cow’s head is mounted above and, instead of wooden logs, there are plush fiber versions within. Vintage furnishings, octopus-themed wallpaper, and vertical blue-and-white stripes surrounding the bar add further visual interest. The house is also filled with memorabilia from the movie “Top Gun,” including a refurbished Kawasaki Ninja ZX900 motorcycle like the one Tom Cruise rode in the movie.

Original ‘Top Gun’ Location Is Now a Quaint Pie Shop in Southern California’s Oceanside - Variety

Original ‘Top Gun’ Location Is Now a Quaint Pie Shop in Southern California’s Oceanside.

Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

As at Mission Pacific, the hotel provides surfboard storage, the better to take advantage of Oceanside’s reliable, beginner-friendly swells. For a special dinner, let the ebullient chef at Seabird’s Piper Restaurant explain the nood-focused tasting menu at the pasta bar. A full-service spa, children’s activities and art program featuring works by local visual artists round out the resort’s offerings.

"One hundred and thirty-two people die by suicide each and every day." The White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the shooting. Biden spoke with the governor and "expressed his condolences and support for the community. In addition, senior White House officials are in touch with federal, state, and local officials," the White House said in a statement. "Your father, your husband, your friend, your neighbor ... and today they're not going home," she said.

It was obvious when Eyewitness News visited -- everyone wanted a picture in front of the "Top Gun" house. "From moving it the first time, to restoring it, and setting it down, they’ll have a million dollars in it." Top Gun has become such a favorite part of San Diego’s history that it even won the San Diego Union Tribune’s poll over the movie Anchorman as ‘Best Movie Ever Filmed in San Diego’. As yet another nod to Top Gun, a refurbished Yamaha Kawasaki Ninja ZX900 motorcycle just like Cruise’s in the movie is an Instagram-perfect prop for guests. S.D. Malkin Properties, which broke ground on the Oceanside Beach Resort in 2019, expects to open the hotel with its newly acquired "Top Gun" house this year.

One of them was used as the home of Cmdr. Mike “Viper” Metcalf, as seen in the film. Now, on to the original “Top Gun” lineup of locations, which is more extensive than the sequel. However, production crews also filmed on Ocean Boulevard in Coronado, at the New Point Loma Lighthouse and at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

When “Top Gun” premiered in 1986, it was easy for locals to recognize that many of the scenes were filmed around San Diego. “We’ve got this whole beach, there’s miles of beach — choose your spot. So, we did, and it just so happened that the place we chose was a nesting area for a breed of endangered birds,” location manager Mike Fantasia told the film commission. If you're really there for the Top Gun nostalgia, The High Pie sells some merch sure to please.