If the locations on this page look familiar, it’s probably because of what happened there 30 years ago.

The photos were collected by self-confessed ‘80s nerd’ Michael Johnson on a hectic tour of some of California’s most famous movie locations.

Michael spent a day seeing as many locations as he could from landmark films of the 1980s.

“My day job is running a web design company in Wimborne,” said Michael, author of the book A 1980s Childhood: From He-Man to Shell Suits.

“The ’80s stuff is more of a hobby. I recently had to go to California on a business trip to meet a new customer and had heard there were lots of filming locations nearby.”

He enlisted the T-shirt supplier TruffleShuffle.co.uk (the name is itself a reference to a joke in the 1985 comedy The Goonies) to equip him with appropriate gear for pictures along the way.

His tour included:

  • Doc Emmett Brown’s house from Back to the Future.
  • The house where young Elliot befriended E.T.
  • Marty McFly’s house from Back to the Future.
  • The home where Ferris Bueller took his famous Day Off.
  • Whittier Union High School, which became Hill Valley High in Back to the Future.
  • A bar seen in Top Gun.
  • And finally, the Puente Hills Mall – better known as the Twin Pines Mall where the DeLorean reached 88mph in Back to the Future.

Michael made the tour with his Californian friends Dale and Jane.

“They were very patient. They weren’t so familiar with these films, but having lived on the outskirts of LA, they had never done this for themselves,” he said.

The trip lasted from 9am-7pm and involved travelling hundreds of miles, including a stop in Hollywood to see more traditional attractions such as the Hollywood sign and the Walk of Fame.

Michael said the stop at one of Back to the Future’s most famous locations made the perfect end to the trip.

“We ended up at Twins Pine Mall just before it got dark. In the film, you only ever see it in the dark so it was perfectly arranged,” he said.

He added: “For me, it’s a dream come true. I’m a complete ’80s nerd. I watch ’80s films mostly.”

More of Michael’s pictures are at doyouremember.co.uk A 1980s Childhood: From He-Man to Shell Suits is available from History Press,£9.99 or as a Kindle e-book, £2.99