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: Multimedia - Film Locations - Escape From New York
I want to thank SD Bob, Erik Markarian, CreedsGalBirdy and Bankok Rules for making this page possible. Be sure to check out and read about their trip to St. Louis, Missouri 5/30 - 5/31, 2008. Click here: Snake Escape 2008
Feel free to send me more info or more pictures (or better ones). I appreciate all the help I can get.
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Then1: Denver Federal Reserve Depository/Atlanta Hummer Station/Colorado/San Francisco Train Stations (Deleted Scene) (W1 Train Station, Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center Station (Atlanta's MARTA system)
Description: Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center is a station in the MARTA rail system. As the station name suggests, the station provides service to the Georgia Dome, the Georgia World Congress Center, Philips Arena, and the CNN Center. Access is also provided to the Omni and Glenn hotels, Centennial Olympic Park, the Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Tower, and the new World of Coca-Cola at Pemberton Place. When the station first opened in 1979, it was called Omni station due to its proximity to the now-demolished Omni Coliseum.
Comment (SD Bob): "The train sequence was shot on Atlanta's MARTA system, basically right after MARTA completed it and before the public started using it. It was shot entirely at the W1 train station, Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center Station."
100 Techwood Drive, NW
Atlanta, GA 30303
http://www.itsmarta.com/getthere/stations/dome.htm
2: Liberty Island Security Control (Interiors) (Art Center College of Design (Photo Dept. areas), Pasadena CA.)
Description: Art Center College of Design has been a leader in art and design education for nearly 75 years. The College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of disciplines, as well as Public Programs offering design education to all ages and levels of experience.
Comment (Bankok Rules): "All the "Liberty Island Security Control" interiors were the Photo dept. areas of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA. "
Snake Enters : North Photo Stairs/Still there
Photo Locker Areas/Still there
Radar Communications: Room 119/Still there but enlarged 
Command Ctr: Photo Stage/Still there
Hauks Office: Room 215/Demolished for expansion
Hauk Gives Snake Tracker: Lower Photo Corridor/Still there
Medical Lab: Black and White Lab/Still there Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
http://www.artcenter.edu
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Then3: Liberty Island Security Control (Exteriors) (Sepulveda Dam Flood Control Basin, San Fernando Valley, CA)
Description: Located in Los Angeles, California, the Sepulveda Dam is a project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, built in 1941 to control winter flood waters along the Los Angeles River. Due to its neomodern look and proximity to Hollywood, California and Burbank, the dam is a popular filming location for movies, television and advertisements. Not far from the dam, the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area has been set aside by The City of Los Angeles to protect native plants and animals. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the basin.
Comment (Bankok Rules): "Joe Alves had the fake bunker buildings and faux exhaust ports arranged on the flat concrete deck and hung the huge flag from the bridge. When Snake drops over "Station 19" and Cronenberg zaps and kills the neck charges, that is also shot along the dam walls."
Sepulveda Dam Flood Control Basin
North West junction of the 101 Hollywood/Ventura Fwy and the 405 San Diego Fwy
San Fernando Valley, CA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulveda_Dam
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Then4: Chopper Landing Site (St. Charles St, St. Louis, MO)
Chopper Landing Site/Pod Crash Site/Crazies Come Out/Romero meets Hauk
St. Charles St. between the intersections of 16th, 17th, and 18th streets
St. Louis, MO
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Then5: Snake enter glider/WTC Roof Top/Chock full o' Nuts (Exteriors and Interiors) (Indian Dunes, Los Angeles, CA)
Comment (Bankok Rules): "The "Chock full o' Nuts" exterior and interior, was a set built at a site now closed called "Indian Dunes" in the Newhall/Saugus area North of L.A. off the 5 fwy. Originally used for motorcycle dirt biking, many film crews used Indian Dunes. It had a runway, used when Snake enters his glider. If you watch the 1980 film "The Stunt Man" with Peter O'Toole, the same runway shot from the same angle a year before can be seen in the "wing walking" scene during the daylight: desert hills and all. The World Trade Ctr. roof was also constructed there. The 1983 "Twilight Zone" tragedy occurred there and soon the place was closed. When Snake jumps onto the wall and his radio breaks: that's at Indian dunes outside the facade of the CFON set."
Indian Dunes
Newhall/Saugus area North of L.A. off the 5 fwy
Los Angeles, Ca
Then6: Deserted Floors of the WTC
Comment (Bankok Rules): "The "deserted floors" of the WTC were shot in a raggedy office building across the street from the Wiltern on the S.W. corner of Whilshire and Western. The building has been in a state of disrepair until last year when I saw renovations."
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Then7: Snake's Walk to the Plane Crash (Locust St, Louis, MO)
Schlafly Tap Room
2100 Locust St
St. Louis, MO 63103
www.schlafly.com
8: Plane Crash Site (Locust St, Louis, MO)
Locust St. between 20th and 21st streets
St Louis, MO
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Then9: The Main Street (St. Charles St, St. Louis, MO)
Description: The building that Snake backs up from the crazies from (white brick lower wall) is now a parking lot.
Chopper Landing Site/Pod Crash Site/Crazies Come Out/Romero meets Hauk
St. Charles St. between the intersections of 16th, 17th, and 18th streets
St. Louis, MO
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Then11: Pod Crash Site (St. Charles St, St. Louis, MO)
Description: Has no Chock Full O' Nuts. The building across the pod crash site has been demolished.
Comment (Erik Markarian): "Where the pod actually crashed, in the movie it is an extension to an existing building to make it look like a hole was made in the wall. It would be where the wooden fence partition is in my pictures. Nowadays from what I could see, that section is actually the front of a tenement-type of building and the fenced-off portion in my pictures is a child's play area with a few toys and things in there."
Chopper Landing Site/Pod Crash Site/Crazies Come Out/Romero meets Hauk
St. Charles St. between the intersections of 16th, 17th, and 18th streets
St. Louis, MO
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Then12: Snake enters Radio City Hall (Fox Theater, St. Louis, MO)
Description: "No longer need residents of St. Louis look beyond their own city for the finest entertainment." This statement was coined by the William Fox Circuit of Theatres in 1929 for the opening of their newest, most exotic temple of amusement, and it still holds true!
Fox Theater
527 N. Grand Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63103
http://www.fabulousfox.com/
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Then13: Radio City Music Hall (Interiors) (Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA)
Description: The Wiltern is a well established landmark in Los Angeles. The historic Wiltern Theatre originally opened on 7 October 1931 and is an excellent example of Art Deco. The Wiltern is used for a large variety of events including: rock/pop concerts, dance performances, award shows, television tapings, stage productions, and corporate events.
Comment (Bankok Rules): "All interiors of the "Radio City Music Hall" were shot at the Wiltern Theatre in L.A. at the corner of Wilshire and Western in the "Miracle Mile" area."
Wiltern Theater
3790 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90010
http://www.livenation.com/venue/getVenue/venueId/1237
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Then14: Snake's Alley (Locust St, Louis, MO)
Locust St. between 21st and 22nd streets
St Louis, MO
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Then15: NY Public Library (The New Masonic Temple of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO)
Description: The New Masonic Temple was dedicated October 26, 1926. It contains over six million cubic feet of space, is 185 feet high, equivalent to a fourteen story building housing a ground floor and 6 1/2 upper floors. Today it sits directly across the street from Saint Louis University and is a prominent feature on Lindell Boulevard right next to the Scottish Rite building. This is a handcrafted structure filled with art treasures including historic stained glass windows, ornamental marble components and furniture much of which was hand crafted by Master Craftsmen.
Masonic Temple
3681 Lindell Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108
http://www.newtemple.blogspot.com/
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Then16: NY Public Library (Interiors) (Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA)
Description: The historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library has served as an intellectual center and cultural treasure for generations of students, faculty and staff since it opened in 1932. Created as a memorial to Edward L. Doheny Jr., a USC trustee and alumnus, this landmark building was USC's first freestanding library. 75 years since its doors first opened, it remains one of the university's most important and popular academic facilities.
Doheny Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Parkway
University Park Campus
Los Angeles CA 90089-0185
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/doheny/
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Then17: Grand City Central (The Old St. Louis Union Station Train Station, St. Louis, MO)
Comment (Erik Markrian): "The location of the train where Snake is captured is behind Union Station. That whole area is now a parking lot. The overhead structure of the train shed is still there and covers about half of the lot, as well as the mall that is now attached to Union Station. It's hard to say for certain exactly where the train itself was actually parked, since we don't know how much new construction was added and may have overlapped. Anyways I'm presuming it would have been on the left hand side if you were facing out of the mall. There is actually a single restored train car parked over on the right side but it looks like it's just there as a sort of historical type attraction. There is also a fountain-type thing and a Hard Rock Cafe over there too."
Union Station/Hyatt Hotel
1820 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
http://www.stlouisunionstation.com/
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Then18: Madison Square Garden (St. Louis Union Station, Hyatt Hotel's Grand Lobby, St. Louis, MO)
Description: St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, is a former passenger train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the world's largest and busiest train station, it was converted in the early 1980s into a luxury hotel, shopping center, and entertainment complex. Today, it is one of the city's major tourist attractions.
Comment (Bankok Rules): "The area where the Duke is taking pot shots at the president with Snake's MAC as Brain and Maggie walk up is: The Midway between Union Station and the Hyatt. Now enclosed and made into a shopping arcade. However very recognizable."
Union Station/Hyatt Hotel
1820 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
http://www.stlouisunionstation.com/
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Then19: WTC Lobby (CalArts, California Institute of the Arts (Auditorium Foyer/Reception Area), Valencia, CA
Description: CalArts is the first U.S. higher educational institution to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in both visual and performing arts. It was established in 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney through the merger of two professional schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, founded in 1883, and the Chouinard Art Institute, founded in 1921. CalArts moved to its permanent home in Valencia in 1971 and added degree programs in dance, film and theater to those in art and music.
CalArts, California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Pkwy
Valencia, CA 91355
http://www.calarts.edu/
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Then20: 69th Street Bridge (59th St. Bridge, Chain Of Rocks Bridge, St. Louis. MO)
Description: The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge was the most famous of the Route 66 crossings of the Mississippi River. It closed in 1967, the bridge is now a pedestrian/bicycle bridge across the Mississippi. The blue side fencing was added to the bridge for safety when the bridge became a pedestrian bridge.
59th St. Bridge, Chain Of Rocks Bridge
(Missouri side)
St. Louis, MO
- from downtown take I-70 North to Exit 247 onto East Grand Ave
- go left onto Hall St.
- Hall St. becomes Riverview Dr.
- bridge is on the right before the exit to Rt. 270
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Rocks_Bridge
21: Maggie Hit by Duke's Car
Description: John Carpenter felt this shot was missing so he and Adrienne Barbeau (who were married at the time) arranged and shot this footage in their old garage.
Unknown Locations:
Comment (Erik Markarian): "There are still TWO locations that remain a mystery: where Cabbie parked his cab on the street (it's NOT the reverse side of the Library shot, there is actually no street there), and the other is where Snake and company are driving down Broadway. If you watch closely you'll see that they are just driving past the same group of buildings over and over again. We know that Carpenter probably would have stuck close to St. Charles and Locust streets, so we drove around and also went on foot but could not find either of these locations. It's possible that the buildings have been demolished since the time of the original filming. Or the shots may have been done further away from where we were looking. In any case there are still secrets that need to be revealed!"
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Then: Escape From L.A.
1: The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA)
Description: The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena was opened on July 4, 1959 by then U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon. It is a multipurpose sports arena in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at Exposition Park. It is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum just south of the campus of the University of Southern California.
The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
3939 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90037
http://www.lacoliseum.com/