MARTIN Location Comparisons (Now and in 1976)

 When I go to these film locations, I go armed with screen captures from the movie so that I can try and take a picture from the same angle and recreate the exact same shot. It's then easy for people to see how the location looks now and compare it with the way it looked in 1976 when they made the movie MARTIN. The following are the results from my 2013 tour of locations from MARTIN.

Here is a view of the junkyard that Martin and Cuda walk by on the way to Cuda's house in MARTIN. Putting it together I realized that my picture angle is way off, but it's close enough that you get the picture.

Cuda walks past the junkyard wall as Martin follows.

Martin walks with Cuda to the house past the junkyard brick wall. It's usually grown over these days, but as of this April 2015 it was cleared out. This pic was taken in 2013.

Cuda and Martin walk up to Cuda's house.

Front full view of Cuda's house

Here is a view of the side of Cuda's house with the statue in the back yard.

View from the back of Cuda's house when Martin sees the man on the motorcycle.

Martin makes deliveries and crosses a footbridge which is sadly gone these days.

Cuda and Martin exit Stambolis Poultry Market.

Two ladies walk by the Giant Eagle before they get harassed by a couple of guys. Directly in front of them in the movie is the former Braddock Hospital which has since been demolished to make way for apartments of some sort as you can see in the present day shot.

Some guys harass this woman outside Giant Eagle.

The house of the adulterous woman that Martin decides to stalk.

Martin watches the adulterous woman when she leaves the Giant Eagle.

The bricks that Martin climbs to get on the roof to spy on the woman are still on the side of the house. They have been painted over these days.

This is the front of the adulterous woman's house. Her husband is about to leave on a business trip.

Her husband's car pulls out of the garage.

The back of the adulterous woman's house from opposing angles during my MARTIN location tour in Sep. 2013. I know it's weird, but I only got one shot of the back and did not want to really snoop around too much.

Martin stalks Cuda dressed as Dracula and follows him through an alley and into a playground. 

This is the playground where Martin chases Cuda in full Dracula costume and makeup. These days it is a bit grown over and it has more modern equipment, the the spot is still a playground. It was closed and locked when I visited.

The train passing through Braddock.

2013 Tour Of Locations From MARTIN Part 4

September 20, 2013
Let me set the scene. It's early in the morning. I'm in Pittsburgh to attend the local Horror Realm convention as a vendor there. I have to be at the con to set up hours before it opens, so I start my journey to Braddock, PA at about 8am and I must leave the area around noon to go to the convention and do my set up. I arrive in Braddock around 9am. It's a bright sunny day and it's perfect for taking photos, I hear that the weather in Pittsburgh can be quite dreary at times, but I got lucky today, it's beautiful. I had researched many of the locations featured in the movie MARTIN for the past year or so, so I was ready to visit some cool spots. I even found the house that the adulterous woman lived in, no fan had found that location before me, so I was excited to start this journey. Shall we begin Part 4?
It's the last one, I promise.

With Matt Blazi along for the duration of the tour, we headed to the next location. This is the house of the adulterous woman. No fan had ever tracked down this house location before. But with a little research, i was able to find it. Martin stalks this woman and follows her to her house, he watches her for several days. When her husband leaves on a business trip he decides that it is time to make his move, but little does he know that when he arrives, she is in bed with her secret lover, now he must deal with both of them.

This house was my last stop on September 20, 2013. It was about noon time and I had to go to the local Horror Realm convention and set up. I spent the next 3 days at the convention, but on the following Monday I had plans to see many more locations from George Romero's movies. On Monday I went to most of the KNIGHTRIDERS locations, but I really wanted to try and get back to Braddock to see the real location of the footbridge you see in MARTIN. I had a few days previously figured out where it was, but I did not know if I could fit it in on Monday after the KNIGHTRIDERS locations. As it turned out, those took most of the day. I did however get the chance to get over to the footbridge location just as the sun was going down. Here are the pics. My research paid off, it was the right spot and I knew it as soon as I got there. Check out my previous blog post for the full story:

http://martinthereisnomagic.blogspot.com/2015/06/for-many-years-fans-of-martin-have-come.html

The following are my pics from what would have been the end of the footbridge on both sides of the railroad tracks.

That was the end of my tour of MARTIN locations in 2013. I returned to Pittsburgh several times after this and took pictures at many other locations from George Romero's movies, however that will be the subject of other posts on my other blogs, I did return to many more locations from MARTIN after more extensive research in April of 2015. But you're going to have to wait to see those....I have many other pictures to edit and post from other places before I get to those. 

2013 Tour Of Locations From MARTIN Part 3

September 20, 2013
Let me set the scene. It's early in the morning. I'm in Pittsburgh to attend the local Horror Realm convention as a vendor there. I have to be at the con to set up hours before it opens, so I start my journey to Braddock, PA at about 8am and I must leave the area around noon to go to the convention and do my set up. I arrive in Braddock around 9am. It's a bright sunny day and it's perfect for taking photos, I hear that the weather in Pittsburgh can be quite dreary at times, but I got lucky today, it's beautiful. I had researched many of the locations featured in the movie MARTIN for the past year or so, so I was ready to visit some cool spots. I even found the house that the adulterous woman lived in, no fan had found that location before me, so I was excited to start this journey. Shall we begin Part 3?

With Matt Blazi along for the duration of the tour, we headed to the next location. This is the first house that MARTIN makes a delivery to.

Then we headed back to Cuda's house.

Then we headed over to the railroad tracks and the junkyard.

This is the white brick wall that runs alongside the junkyard that you see Martin and Cuda walk past on their way to Cuda's house with views from each end as you see in the movie. It was very overgrown in 2013, but it is currently cleared of all foliage. 

To be continued..