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Inspiration
for the 'St Elmo's' bar: The Tombs, Georgetown,
DC
Photograph courtesy Nils Reucker
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ST
ELMO'S FIRE filming locations
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CREDITS
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College
kids come to terms with the real world in Joel
Schumacher's archetypal 80s bratpack movie.
The locale is the studenty area of Georgetown,
southwest Washington DC, and much of the movie was filmed
around here.
The 'St Elmo's Bar' itself, though mocked up in the
studio in Hollywood, was based on The
Tombs, 1226 36th Street NW (opposite the
house seen in that other Georgetown-set movie, The
Exorcist).
The exterior seen in the film is a couple of blocks
east: Third
Edition, 1218 Wisconsin Avenue at M Street.
You might reasonably assume that the university is Georgetown
University, but the university authorities put paid
to filming on their premises (though they had no problem
with The
Exorcist).The campus seen is the
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Filming at a house on Prosser
Dam Road, Truckee, central California.
Scenes were filmed back in LA
at the old bank building, 650
South Spring Street, downtown, seen in All
Of Me, Marathon
Man, Seven,
The Mask and Spider-Man
2.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR ST ELMO'S FIRE
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