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Threatened
by the volcano: The May & Co store,
Wilshire Boulevard
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VOLCANO
filming locations
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CREDITS
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You wait years for a volcano movie, then two come along
at once.
Danteís Peak
spurted lava over a small town in Idaho, but Volcano
staged the (geologically unlikely) eruption smack in
the centre of LA.
The first inkling of disaster comes when a burst of
sulphurous flame kills underground workers in a storm
drain in MacArthur Park
at the junction of Seventh Street and Alvarado, downtown.
This notoriously risky area has been cleaned up a lot
of late. The park, once a centre for drug-related violence,
is a bright, refreshing oasis in the downtown district,
but itís still best to avoid after dark.
Soon the parkís lake is bubbling and there are strange
disturbances at the La Brea
Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, where
the volcano eventually erupts. Donít worry, itís still
there. You can visit the George
C Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries –
thatís the excellent museum (established in 1977) built
at the site of the Pits, where the remains of thousands
of Pleistocene Age animals were preserved as fossils.
Itís at 5801 Wilshire Boulevard,
Hancock Park at Curson Avenue (a double ticket
admits you to the LA County Museum of Art next door).
The museum is also featured in Curtis
Hansonís excellent Bad
Influence, and the dark, satiric thriller
Miracle Mile, while
the pits were recreated down in Long Beach for the Schwartzenegger
bomb Last Action Hero.
A section of Wilshire Boulevard,
centering around the junction with Fairfax Avenue, with
Johnieís Coffee Shop
(seen in American
History X) and the gold deco cylinder of the
old May and Co building,
was reconstructed at the studio for the destruction
scenes.
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Halting
the lava flow: Beverly Center, Beverly Boulevard
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The lava flow is finally halted when itís just about
to engulf the Beverly Center,
8500 Beverly Boulevard at La Cienega Boulevard
– the shopping mall setting of Scenes
From a Mall.
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FILMING
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