Puente Hills Mall - Back To The Future

Puente Hills Mall served as a filming location for the fictional Twin Pines Mall (later Lone Pine Mall) in the 1985 film Back to the Future. In the film, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) uses the mall's south parking lot (visible in the above photograph) to stage his time travel experiments with the DeLorean time machine. A JCPenney store (later 24 Hour Fitness, Linens 'n Things, and currently Burlington Coat Factory, Toys R Us and Round1) and Robinson's (later Robinson's-May and now Macy's) features prominently in the background. A Ross Dress For Less store can be seen in a strip mall across the street; this store eventually relocated to the mall. The scenes were filmed in January 1985. According to the DVD audio commentary, screenplay writer Bob Gale says that several fans gathered at the Puente Hills Mall in the early hours of October 26, 1985, the date given in the film as the present day, to see if anything would happen.