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Axel
Foley's Beverly Hills squat: 614 Walden
Drive, Beverly Hills
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BEVERLY
HILLS COP II filming locations
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CREDITS
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Axel
Foley hares back to LA
when police chief Bogomil is gunned down.
Police HQ, once again, is ostensibly Beverly
Hills City Hall, and the establishing long
shots certainly are. But look take another look. When
Ronny Cox drives
away, itís a different building altogether.
All the scenes involving actors, and which therefore
require expensive film permits, feature Pasadena
City Hall, 100 North Garfield Avenue at Holly
Street, Pasadena. LAís
eastern neighbour is significantly cheaper to film in
than swanky Beverly Hills. Its city hall is smaller,
but even more extravagant, than the Beverly Hills counterpart.
Unfortunately, it looks nothing like the Beverly
Hills City Hall building. You can see City Hall as the palace of Adenoid Hynkel
in Charlie Chaplinís
The Great Dictator, as well as in
A Walk In The Clouds,
The Net and American
Pie II.
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'Beverly
Hills City Hall'? No, it's Pasadena City Hall
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The jewellery store robbed by Brigitte
Nielsen was once the magnificently kitsch Max Factor
Museum (see the incredible Beauty Calibrator!), now
the Hollywood Historical Museum, 1666 North Highland
Avenue just off Hollywood Boulevard, also seen in
The Two Jakes,
the Jack Nicholson-directed
sequel to Chinatown.
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The
jewellery store: Hollywood Historical Museum,
1666 North Highland Avenue
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You can see the ënodding donkeyí oil wells, where Bogomil
is tailed, at Baldwin Hills
on La Cienega Boulevard,
southeast of Culver City.
The house undergoing renovation, where ëBeverly Hills
Building Investigatorí Foley squats for the duration
of the movie, is not ë1603 Hillcrest Roadí, itís 614
Walden Drive, which runs north from Santa
Monica Boulevard to Lomitas Avenue, east of Los Angeles
Country Club – and it is really in Beverly Hills.
The shoot-out restaurant where Taggart passes himself
off as Gerald Ford, however, is not. At the time it
was French restaurant 385 North, but itís now Mexican
restaurant Acapulco, 385 North
La Cienega Boulevard in Hollywood.
The Beverly Hills Gun Club is once again the California
Institute of Technologyís Athenaeum Club
(seen in the original Beverly
Hills Cop).
The concrete mixer chase does end at a real enough location:
the bunnymanís warren, Hugh Hefnerís Playboy
Mansion, 10236 Charing Cross Road off Mapleton
Drive, running between the western reaches of Sunset
Boulevard and Los Angeles Country Club (which you can
see again in Charlieís Angels:
Full Throttle).
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FILMING
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