THE BLUES BROTHERS Film 1980. Written by Dan Aykroyd and John Landis. Directed by John Landis. Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown and John Candy. | |||
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1 | Al Bennett Sales | Vehicles | Automotive Services | ||
Al Bennett Sales Automotive parts store referencing car dealer Al Bennett, popularly known as the "dealing man" from Flint, Michigan, in the 1970s. | |||||
2 | American Socialist White People's Party | Organizations | Activist Groups | ||
American Socialist White People's Party Acronym = "ass wipe". Nazi group that taunts the assembled counter protesters. The pledge of allegiance to Adolf Hitler was taken almost word-for-word from the 1975 movie The California Reich. | |||||
3 | The Blues Brothers Band | Music | Musicians | ||
The Blues Brothers Band Jake and Elwood Blues reunite their old R&B band to save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago. | |||||
4 | Bluesmobile | Vehicles | Motor Vehicles | ||
Bluesmobile The Blues Brothers' car - an old Mount Prospect police car. It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run good on regular gas. | |||||
5 | Bob's Country Bunker | Nightlife | Nightclubs | ||
Bob's Country Bunker The Blues Brothers perform as The Good Ol' Boys. | |||||
6 | Curl Up & Dye | Beauty Care | Beauty Salons | ||
Curl Up & Dye Beauty salon where Carrie Fisher's Mystery Woman works. | |||||
7 | The Good Ol' Boys | Music | Musicians | ||
The Good Ol' Boys The Blues Brothers pretend they're The Good Ol' Boys and perform at Bob's Country Bunker. | |||||
8 | Lloyd's Tire Clinic | Vehicles | Automotive Services | ||
Lloyd's Tire Clinic When the Bluesmobile runs out of gas, Jake and Elwood push it to the closest gas station. | |||||
9 | M-79 Flamethrower | Weapons | Miscellaneous Weapons | ||
M-79 Flamethrower Carrie Fisher's Mystery Woman's weapon. There is a real M-79 Grenade Launcher, but no M-79 Flamethrower. | |||||
10 | Murph and the Magic Tones | Music | Musicians | ||
Murph and the Magic Tones Lounge act playing the Holiday Inn Armada Room before rejoining The Blues Brothers band. Members include Murphy Dunne, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Willie "Too Big" Hall and Tom "Bones" Malone. | |||||
11 | Palace Hotel | Travel | Hotels | ||
Palace Hotel The Blues Brothers Band performs its climactic concert at the Palace Hotel Ballroom, a country club at the time of filming, but later became the South Shore Cultural Center, named after the Chicago neighborhood where it is located. The interior concert scenes were filmed in the Hollywood Palladium. | |||||
12 | Ray's Music Exchange | Music | Music Stores | ||
Ray's Music Exchange There never was an actual store called Ray's Music Exchange. The mural on the Prairie Avenue side of the building at 300 E. 47th St. was painted during production in 1979 and remained until May of 2020, when fire damage to the building forced the city to demolish the empty store and two others attached to it. | |||||
13 | See You Next Wednesday | Cinema | Movies | ||
See You Next Wednesday Movie starring Donald Sutherland and directed by Carl La Fong, advertised on the billboard that Jake and Elwood pass when they leave Bob's Country Bunker. Reference to Frank Poole's father's last line in his video letter, from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. | |||||
14 | Soul Food Cafe | Dining | Cafes and Delis | ||
Soul Food Cafe Filmed at what was Nate's Deli on Maxwell Street in Chicago. It is now a parking lot. | |||||
15 | Triple Rock Church | Religion | Churches | ||
Triple Rock Church Church in which Jake and Elwood receive the divine intervention. The actual location is modern day Pilgrim Baptist on the South Side of Chicago. |
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