I've finally got through the pics and have some with caps of the film somewithout but I'm sure you will recognise them! Big pics are my recent ones.

oh, wow wonderful pictures, you can tell since the movie was made things are a little different.

I've added this location to our Locations Page and also added it to the locations Maps

Oooh, thanks for posting these for me Rock!

Brainwashed

Amusement park

Playland Amusement Park
2901 E. Hastings,
Vancouver










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The location where Jack was found by the cop and where MacGyver later jumps the fence is near the bottom right corner of this image.






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Lisa Woodman's High School from the Twenty Questions episode.

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The Secret of Parker House

I finally found the Parker House.

This has been on my locations bucket list for a very long time.


Aberthau Mansion
West Point Grey Community Centre
4397 West 2nd Avenue,
Vancouver

This heritage Tudor-style mansion is home to a number of recreation and cultural services and offices. It is also available for rentals. Everything from TV and movie shoots to weddings and private parties happen in this facility.

Website: http://westpointgrey.org/

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberthau_House












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This location is actually a doorway into the basement.
They appear to have built a fake wall in front of the doorway to blast open and climb out through.





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Location: filmed on the rear walkway in the below image





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Filmed on the same walkway as above scenes





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I really like that house. Every time I watch that episode, I wish I had inherited it.

Here's the church from The Madonna episode.

See more photos and information about it here.

Well, I'm glad the "Parker House" is getting put to good use as a community center. It's always nice when they preserve and restore these heritage sites.

This is the Pink Motel and Cadillac Jack cafe from the Hood episode. Both are the real names of the businesses.

Nikki's Apartment

Beaconsfield Apartment complex.
884 Bute Street, Vancouver


















If you watch closely, on the " Blow out" episode, you can also see Nikki's Apartment
when MacGyver stops the mail truck to fill it with cement, its just behind.



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Kerrisdale Arena from the "Thin Ice" episode.

Kerrisdale Cyclone Taylor Arena
5670 East Boulevard, Vancouver

The Invisible Killer

Public Restroom

Park Road,
Lynn Canyon,
Vancouver






EDIT: The original picture is no longer available on google street view and this is the only remaining copy of the image


The original bathroom has since been replaced by a new larger facility to accommodate the larger number of visitors in the area. The new building is located several yards closer to the suspension bridge.

The below image shows the new building and the red circle where the old bathroom was located.

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Suspension bridge


Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge
Lynn Canyon Park
Vancouver, BC

Dunbar Post Office from "Blow Out"

Vancouver Public Library, Dunbar Branch
4515 Dunbar Street, Vancouver

Admin note: 08/2022

This was where Strongs Market relocated to some years after filming. It was NOT the filming location.
It appears that this market has now been completely torn down and is being replaced with a new 48 apartment block.





Strong's Market also from "Blow Out" and just across the street from the Dunbar Post Office, witch is now a public library.

My pleasure! I love this kind of stuff!

Billy's Cafe from "Jack in the Box"

Updated as of 2022

Privately owned store at 3820 Moncton Street, Steveston, Richmond

This cafe has gone through a couple of names/owners since MacGyver filmed there and has now be turned into the 4 Cats Stevenston Art Studio.










As it was in 2009 as the 'Meow + Bark Avenue 'pet store

Smiley, Arkansas, also from "Jack in the Box", which in reality is in Moncton Street, Steveston, Richmond.

This shot was taken only a few feet west of the Café Jack gets thrown through the front window of.
At the end of the street we can see the Gulf of Georgia Cannery where part of the 'Back From The Dead' episode was filmed.

Those locations have been added to our locations page and I've also sorted the locations into seasons to make it easier to find locations of interest.

Just found the store used as Larson's Print Shop in the Challenge episode.

692 East Hastings Street, Vancouver.

This is how it looked in the show...





And this is what it looks like as of 2019...

Amazing!!!
That wasn't an easy one for sure!
Good job!

Yeah, it took a bit of creative searching to find it.

Here's some shots of the back alley to the print shop, where MacGyver takes out the two buffoons.

This is how we see it in the episode



This is how it looks today




They used the actual back of the shop for this whole scene.

How do you find all these?

Has anyone been to these locations, did you plan a trip around location hunting?

For me it's a combination of Google products, image search,maps and standard search. It can be a long drawn out process of following a trail of image results or search keywords. 2-3 hours can flick by without even noticing, strangely it always seems to happen late at night.

For example I located the Madonna church by doing an image and map search in Google for Vancouver churches.

The print shop above was the result of a combination of searching businesses in Vancouver (again in Google) with street addresses of 692 and printing stores then visiting the locations in Google maps street view.

Others have actually visited the sites and kindly allow the use of their photos on this site. Their names are listed at the bottom of the locations page

wow great job you two.

Amazing how you find all these places, without even having been there. Brilliant work!

Now I have something that struck me last time I was in Vancouver (August 2008). I stayed with friends in an apartment building that was next to the Qube aka the Phoenix Building, on West Georgia St. On my first day off I wanted to try and find the place where Mac's houseboat had been. Maybe it would be a long search, but I had all day to myself, the weather was okay, so why not. Munching my breakfast I looked out the side window (the one from which I could almost touch the Qube, and saw the marina down behind. And suddenly I recognized it. This was the Bute Marina. I had no idea that the houseboat and the Phoenix Building had been that close to each other, maybe 200 meters.
Why am I telling this now? A few days ago I watched a few episodes of season 3, with some panoramic shots of the Phoenix Building with a bay and boats in the background. And now I knew that if the camera angle would have been just a little more to the left, we would have seen the houseboat. But I believe they avoided to show the houseboat, to give us the idea that it was located in a whole different area.
Maybe this is a well known fact, but new to me. I made some pictures at the time, but don't know how to post them.

I sure love to see those pictures some time!

In the episode Eagles, the structure MacGyver landed on to collect the eggs from the eagles nest is "The Totem Pole" in Monument valley.

This is a capture from the episode



This is a capture from Google Maps


There's even a mention in Wikipedia about this area featuring in MacGyver!